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Title: The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders by Edward E. Leslie ISBN: 0-306-80865-X Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An awesome account of life on the MO/Kan Border in the 1860s
Comment: This book is a must-have for all civil war enthusiasts, as well as should be mandatory reading for history classes on our local history. As a native of the town that Quantrill formed his raiders and a civil war enthusiast, I can confirm that Edward Leslie went to great lengths in researching the towns and the terrain that the Quantrill band frequently covered. Unlike previously released books on this subject, Leslie takes an unbiased approach at describing attrocities committed by both sides of the Missouri-Kansas border. As many people cling to the idea that men such as William Quantrill, Bill Anderson and George Todd were simply murderers quenching their own thirst for blood, even General Sterling Price himself viewed the efforts of the Missouri Conferderate Guerrillas to be a necessity for the Conferderate Cause. I commend the author for conveying the facts from both sides of the border and describing this truly dark period of Missouri history
Rating: 4
Summary: Never fully at rest
Comment: William Clarke Quantrill, Confederate raider, self-proclaimed officer in the CSA, and many other things, good and ill, depending on who is speaking. Edward E. Leslie presents a well-researched biography of the guerilla who roamed the trans-Mississippi theater of the War Between the States, harrassing Union troops and worrying Confederate generals. There was a certain genius in the man followed by the James boys and Bloody Bill Anderson, and who led the infamous raid on Lawrence, Kansas. However, this is not only a story of the life of one man. Leslie also gives a good account of the cruel conditions present in that part of the country before and during the war. He relates more hatred and cruelty than in nearly all the rest of the country combined. It is even said in some quarters that the war began on the border between Kansas and Missouri.
The story did not end with Quantrill's death, either. The fight over the man's bones up to today is both interesting and bizarre. At the end of the book, his bones still had not all been buried in one place. In some ways, this is the most interesting part of all.
Although the organization of the book often leads to a bit of confusion, anyone interested in the border wars will enjoy it, as will many Civil War buffs. They might also enjoy the movie, "Ride with the Devil," which tells the story of young men who rode with Quantrill.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Insight on why Kansas and Missouri were enemies
Comment: Great Book
This is an excellently researched book about the pre-Civil War era along the Missouri and Kansas border and why their conflicts escalated into a all out war between them during the Civil War.
This book is well balanced and not a bunch of hyped up exaggerated stories about a notorious outlaw. Excellent read for any student or history buff desiring to better understand the turmoil and terror the local communities and people endured and suffered on both sides of the civil war.
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Title: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla by Albert Castel ISBN: 081171506X Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865 by Thomas Goodrich, Thomas Goodrich ISBN: 0253213037 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Three Years With Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout John McCorkle by O. S. Barton ISBN: 0806130563 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865 by Jay Monaghan ISBN: 0803281269 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. Stiles ISBN: 0375405836 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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