A believer in slavery, William Quantrill formed Quantrill’s Raiders to aid the Confederacy. Born in Dover Canal, Ohio, he taught school before going to Missouri and establishing Quantrill’s Raiders with 440 soldiers. He died in a shootout in Wakefield Kentucky in May 1865. Or not. In 1907, a Union veteran traveling in British Columbia spotted Quantrill, living under the name, John Sharp. Sharp admitted it but was beaten to death a few days later. Or he was L.J. Crocker and died in 1917 in Arkansas. Who knows? Photos: Quantrill and Crocker with wfe
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