Quantrill's Raiders were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas who fought in the American Civil War.
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10 Facts About Quantrill's Raiders
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Quantrill's Raiders men burned a quarter of the town's buildings and killed at least 150 men and boys.
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Quantrill's Raiders joined Quantrill's raiders because of the abuse that his family suffered at the hands of Kansas jayhawkers.
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Quantrill's Raiders was arrested, but he reportedly died a week later from his wounds.
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Quantrill's Raiders was to disrupt Union operations north of the Missouri River and draw Union troops toward his cavalry command.
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Quantrill's Raiders's body was dragged through the streets of Richmond, Missouri.
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Quantrill's Raiders's gravemarker is in the old Mormon Pioneer cemetery, in the extreme southwest corner, behind some pine trees and near the road.
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Quantrill's Raiders kept a group together after the war and harassed the Missouri state government during the tumultuous year of 1866.
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