'•'ii m^ 1 WS;:!bl ^<*0^ -i *i,^ .---17- Author . Title Imprint. 1«— 47372-2. 9WO \ QuantrelTs Raid on La^vrenee. T T T T T BY L. D. BAILEY AND OTHERS. T { With Names of Victims of the Raid. Y T T T Y T T T ' • Y T T T ; T Edited and re-printed ? T ? T ? T C. R. GREEN, } -Member of Kansas State Historical Society. I Lyndon, Kansas, 1899. ^n A GllAPHI(3 DESCUIPTION OF THE QUANTRELL i RAID ON LAWRENCE. J 1 1 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WHAT I SAW AND HEARD' J OR LEARNED FROM THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED. i i 1 By Judge L, U. Bailey in Kansas Culllvator— 1887. ^ ! t f Our last legis'ature passed an act do- j 1 ing partial justice to the more needy S ^ f t sufferers by the "Quantrell Raid" at S ^ Q i J Lawrence by making provision for the p' o p J I payment to them by installments of j-i k- jr" J T ten per cent annually, commencing ^ ^ * t January 1890. of some »:>(n,OOU, paying ^j ^' ^ i the smaller losses in full some time p ck tr f during the century, but paying to those (u o S '^ i who lost most largely only ^1,500. "^ V ^' S- 1 This tardy act of liberality and justice ^ i_j p 5 1 induces me to relate somewhat at S ?3 _ i length what I know of that most atro- ^ ^ S, 1 cious and bloody tragedy and, of which ^ § ^ -^ 1 I was an eye witness. • , ' 2 "^ t» ^ 1 ^ :r. B ^ WHO WAS Quantrell? == 2 ^' ^. f This question will doubtless arise in ^ p' "* pi many minds, and I may as well answer 35 ri- ^ f it in the beginning. § q ^ I William C. Quantrell was born in a " ^ J small town in Ohio called Canal Dover, a a i and came to Kansas as early as 1859, '^ "^ ^ but for some reason took the name of p gs ; Chas. Hart. His first employment was p^ cu f that of a school teacher at or near Pa- 4 ola in Miami county, but after a time t Gift Author NOV 1 »»tt! _T came to Lawrence, where he assumed to be a radical •>vT abolitionist and kept company with a number of young ;^ men in that vicinity of the most extreme viewa, and T somewhat reckless character, T o ^^ Ho openly declared himself ready to \ ig •;::; assist any slave iu Missouri to es- i ^ ^ cape from bis master, and to defend all T fl '^ ^^^^^ '^^ ^^'^ escaped, by force of arms I _o o '^^^^ ^° ^^® 1^^^ extremity. It soon I '^1 "5 came to be understood that he and his T ^ tw associates were iu the habit of riding I ui o over the line into Missouri and helping t ^ ^ away any discontented slaves they T '^ B chanced to meet with, and it was fur- ! ^ ^ ther learned that these discontented I rS '^ slaves were advised and encouraged to T "Je "^ ^ help themselves to such mules and J Q^ .S ^ horses or other property of their mas- t "5 Pi -S ^^^^ ^3 ^^6y cou'd conveniently get T 5,_| J5 ^ away with. T ^ ^ James E. Stewart. T -^ fl rH A Methodist preacher, named James T .2 o ^ E. Stewart, an Englishman by birth, I ^^ ^ ►^ at one time settled or stationed as such cS I -~ 'o preacher at Salem, N. H , was a close T . q; '^ friend and confidant of Quantrell, alias ^ S _^ Charley Hart, and Stewart's farm or i n^ '^ claim, a few miles south of Lawrence, t Ti became a well known rendezvous of T ^ § the fugitive slaves, who either on their own motion or by the assistance or per- suasion of Hart and his company, sue- \ ceeded in effecting their escape from i Missouri into Kansas. As it was only f forty miles to the line which divided i ^ the slave state of Missouri from the i 01 O bn P! S-l m ert ^ P '5 ^^2 ^-m~»-» •-• •- QUANTKELL EUNNING OFF SLAVES BeKOKE THE WaU. free territory of Kansas it Wris eas-y for these young men, most of whom Wf^rn bold riders f nd experts in the use of arms, to pass over the line, meet wiih slaves, then explain to them how thort a run they had to malie to gain their free- dom, and give them fuU directions how to reach a safe hiding place at the Stewart farm. In the heavy timber that lined the banks of the VVakarusa near the farm there was a snug little cabin provided, and friends were al- ways ready to guide the way and to furnish provisions and other necessar- ies to the trembling fugitives, who were told that they would be kept there in safety until they could be sent on through ]S'ebrasKa and Iowa to Chi- cago and thence to Canada. That was the program, and Stewart's farm was represented in fact to be the main de pot for the Kansas branch of the fa- mous underground railroad of which a good many Quakers and nearly all Ab- olitionists were the agents and cen- diictors, as all will understand who have read the story of Uncle Tom"s Cabin. But things are not always what they seem, and Charley Hart was not by any means the zealous, self sacriticing friend of the fugitive and of freedom that he seemed and pretended to be. In fact, it was eventually found out that while he and his friends were in- ^ ^ S ^1 t §.^-S 9 =2 ? 2 "^ 1 2 ^^ ^- (-1 i2 s ^ ^ 'd o a> • r-H o3 t^ o Z ^ S^a -ft «(-H 3^^^ O fH ri '^ ee 05 2 =^ r^ ^ r. ^ 9 ^ Jame! called ives si e robb > ^ ® ^ ^ f^ si ^ c3 "^ -ITl !^ Z 9, ^ ^ fSiS 9 «3 o3 ai «= Jame ore" omis* ately -le in .;::; CO ftn:J ■•-•-•-•-•-•- -•-•-»-»-»-»-»-»-, stigatin^ and aiding slaves to mn away, he was secretly did actively domg his best to help their mascers to catch them and take them back. But this was a matter of business and only done for cash. Of course his associ- ates vveie the most of th.,'m ignorant of this black hearted scheme of treachery but it is known that several victims were in this way foully betrayed and taken back to slavery, leaving of course any horses or mules they may have brought with them as the prey of the false friend who bad first helped and then betrayed them. It is believed ttjat in this way Hart managed to do quite a smart business in mules aud horses, but at last suspicion was arous- ed and he was Chased out of Lawrence by an othcer who had a warrant for his arrest on the charge of horse steal- ing. He never returned till he came back on the morning of August 21, 18- 63, at the head af about 300 horsemen, well mounted, completely armed, and intent on wreaking vengance upon the abolitinn town which had made itself famous the world over for its sturdy defense of freedom, but was held in most unutterable abhorrence all over Missouri for the same reason I went down to Lawreuce from To- peka on August 20, the day before the raid, and became a guest of the Eld- redge house at midnight, only to find myself a prisoner in the power of Quantrell and his gang before tt^e next ^ cf-i ■=■ morning dawned. Being a prisoner c3 o ':;3 during the whole time Quantrell and CD cc rj O ^ • rH r< O 03 •+-i in f-l ^ fn ^ o CO s c O a3 o -(-2 o O o ® fn +J O r-| c3 1 o 4-= a r^ r-< ^.'s^ O 4J H a • r^ m > 1 f o ^ P* 0^ ; r-H ^ r^ > ^ t^ ■ l—H r- a; ii 1 — 1 -. M o ^ 0) r-j -Jl HI 4-= O ■j: O o =H ^ w •^ O > g fn > r^ *-4-^ ITS O M O *-+^ w Vj > C3 0) CM 00 c3 ^ ^ o rg r^ r^ r— 1 rj 1— 1 CA3 o 1=1 Pi c3 O -4^ o 1-5 +3 O -1-3 o his ga g held po-isrjstion of the town, I could not s^e nor hear all that might have been seen or heard under more lavorable ciicumstances. The Eldridge House. The Eldridge House itself is an his- toric landmark, for on the sjot where it now stands was eiected the first really good hotel in Kausus. It was built of stone, was three stories high with basement, and was more general- ly known while it stood as the Free State Hotel, having been built by the New England Emigrant Aid Company, as the central deput fur the numerous emigrants they designed to send to the new territory. It was leased and fur- nished by Col. S. W. Eldridge, who had kept the American House at Kansas City for a short time, but before he could open the house in Lawrence in proper form it was indie! ed as a nui- sance by the pro slavery giand jury, and destroyed by a posse of several hundred men from Missouri, acting as Kansas Militia, and with no less a per- son for leader than David R. Atchison, for many years United States Senator from Missouri, and then president pro tern, nf the senate and acting vice pres- ident of the United States. He fired the first shot at the ill iated building from a cannon plai ted directly across the street, but owing to a too free in- dulgerce in his favorite beverage, the ball passed over the top of the three ft) O 0- ^ o cc I" ^ CD P O o o ^ CD CO (Xi S t=^ ^ CD Hj c-t- P CD h^. W CD CD < o' H I-'- story edifice, and has lecently been picked up in a ra- vine some quaiter of a mile distant; other shots, better aimed, hit the house, but failed to make a very great im- I)ies3ion on it-! Solid walls. Whereupon, kegs of powder Wire placed in the basement and exploded, with ^ only partial success as to injuring the buildijg, and so rtsort was finally had Destroykd First, May 21, 1856. to the torch, a Ht tool for such incendi- ary purpose, and the Free 8tate Hotel "nuisance" was abated, together with two print ng presses, Gov. Robinson's house and other buildings. Col. Eld- ridge had just procured a year's stock of provisions and a large amount of furniture for the house, not a dollar's worth of which was saved. This was Eldridge House No. 1, but wasf not the house 1 lodged in August 20-21, 1863, though it had stood upon the same ground. Eldridge House No. 2 was erected by the same Col. Eldridge in the spring of "57, was of brick, 100 feet long, by four stories in height, and un- doubtedly, at the time it was complet- ed, the best hotel west of St. Louis, al- so the best furnished and the best kept. It was in this that 1 found myself a prisoner at early dawn on the morning of August 21, 1863, and this was set on fire before I left it that morning. I might as well say now, though a little in advance of the narrative, that this in turn was replaced by Eldridge - House No. 3, which still stands as a .S 1-: .-S J r3 . u ^ 9 P. ? ce ^ O ce it 2 B 'T 13 CC ^ fl ■d =fH ^ O o nd Cl> rH 0) g -t-^ r-* J^ ?H o a? rf -t-H ■ji "o o ?-< rH g o 1 2 cc i, O ^^ ^ o fl p> 0) "-i^ r— ' >i o ;= l-l oo u 1—1 -M >, uB

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He had a revol- ^ i p p^ cs f^ ^^^ *° ^*^ hand and another in his belt, * T '^ b rr 'P but did not look more formidable or i ? 0) O S ? ferocious than many a man 1 have met • • [5 s^ ^ "^ at other times and passed without fear, i TSi — \ • f^ (3i I I S ri -H — ' ^ I should not have known him to be the J T a> I ^ f-' dreaded QuantreU but for the fact f I -ig ^ > ^ that a youngish man, whose namb I i T CM ^ ? ^ § think was Spicer, was leaning over the J I ® ^ 3 fi § banister talking to him QuantreU had I T ^ ^ '^ '^ formerly lived nearly a year in Law- i T '-S I 3 ^ p rence and had gone by the name of J ^ -S a; r- ^ ^ Charley Hart, and Mr. Spicer was try- f I ^ ^ ^ r^ a ^^S to call to his mind some occasion 1 T A S ;S ^ ill which they had been together. "We J f ce '^ S 3 called you Charley Hare then, you J T ^ «3 ^ p^ know," SDicer said, to which he replied i T .2 o . j^ that "It makes no difference what they i ^ g r^ Q ^ call me"— and he did not seem to warm f T i_^ ^ g Qj up at the recital of the old time affair, A T ? ^ 'o '"5 whatever it was— but from that con- i I r-i ;=! ^ '^ versation 1 learned his true name, for f T K^ „ ^ rj I was aware that the much talked of * t '^ g ^ QuantreU had passed by the name of i T 1 T i 12 »-»-»-»-• -o -•-•—• •-•-•- •—•-•-• <-«- Charley Ilart at Lawrence, and that he bad assumed the charactbi- of a violent abolitionist. While Quantrell thus guarded the stairs to urevcnt any from passing down, his men were passing throu' H— J P^ p^ CD XI- CD c+ f-f. P K- ' o ^ l-b CD o CD ^. p ?3 o pJ o c^ (D t> a> o B J-* a'' O l-j 02 5" P' p ^ 5 CD c^ PL, ^. X^ 93 3 CD ^ CTQ 13 Mrs. Hiram; Beeman Saves Her Jewelry, I Among other gueots at the houee was Mrs. JJeeman, of i Top ka, wh )se husband, Hiram Beeman was then an J otlicer iu the army, and has since served f ^ ^ '^ 0" ^3 county treasurer at Topeka. She ^ J ^CO ^ knew me by sight at least, and { , -^ came to me with her httle daughter to •S o ce ask that 1 would assist her to get a &I3 t>5 CD +^ large and heavy trunk out of the closet •r c2 '^ o in her room, so that she could open it ^ . cc t=^ and take therefrom some jewelry and <^ 'izi o other small articles of special value, 03 f^ 'fH r^ telling me the house was to be set S-l on • '^ .S ^ helped her to get at her valuables 3 ^ ^ '^ which she secured about her person. ^ ^ B Three men had come in by stage the ^ ^ day before and were occupying a room g g in the north wing, and they kept their . o '^ -^ '*^ ^^°^ locked. At last some of the out- T fCi "^ ^ Q laws went to open it and finding they I ^ ^ ^ .S could not, fired several shots through T !3 fS a; '^ the door, one of the bullets striking ? ^ a; "^^ one of the men in the hip. The door } CC rt ^ ^ was opened at once and the three men ! S ^ W came out and were robbed like the rest I of us. The wounded man wore a pair of T ^ 3 S - u white pants and 1 taw thf blood trickling down his thigh and staining his clean white pantaltons a vivid red- That was the only blood I saw wh le 1 reniain»d a prison- er, and I had but little idea of the extent of the slaughter outs de I could 1 ear the report of Hre arms and the loud yells from the guer- rilla horsemen as they dashed along the street, but I failed to realize the demon like atrocities that were being perpe- trated upon the unarmed and defence- less people of the town who were so u ifortunate as to fall into their hands, rhese I was to learn later in the d ty. All this t.me I was stalking about the hall in my stocking feet, and of coiirse feeling awkward and ill at ease, and my watch and pocketbook with its somewhat valuable contents, were quietly reposing in the stove where I had placed them. Now finding that the house and all its contents was to be set on fire, I thought it about time to "remove the deposits," to use a phrase somewhat famous in the time of An- drew Jackson, and so I stole up stairs to the room I had occupied the night before and regained possession of them. But I was careful to exhibit neither watch nor pocketbook, for al- though I had been robbed once I was by no means sure that 1 would not be robbed again and perfectly sure that I would be if I was known to have val- uables about my person. g <^ CTQ ^ d g* <1 CD CD CD W y^ 5* O^ o P td o Ui O O K*1 1—1 1— ' P ^i "* CD xt ^ pj d O 5' •-< o r^- c^ CD CD O CD < c^- C+-" C-K c+ O ^ P- 5' o o ^ in O ^ p o l-b Hi 1 — 1 PI _ o >^ ^ (1) -tJ ^ o ^1 O dJ ^ o rt o -i P^ CfQ CD < CD P- p I-; P^ CD 17 The Two Newspaper Offices. there were two, viz: the Lawrence Republican, owned by T. D Thicher our late state printer, and the Kansas iribune, owned by John Speer, at present one of the b )ard of County Comm ssioners of Finney county. ]}oth were on tire with every other building along the street, and I was gazing at them sadly when I was arous ed by a deep lierce growl from Major Bancroft, who could see nothing but the desecration of the American flag, as the man on the tall horse was drag- ging it through the dust, putting his horse through various turns, jumps and caricoles to make the old flag jump and loU by turns fifty feet be- hina his horse, in the deep dust. The Major's exclamation was: "There they are, dragging the American liag in the dust! G— d d— n 'em!" and the great tears, which nothing else could excite, rolled down his wan cheeks as he witnessed the profanation of the sacred emblem he had been taught to revere. 1 never felt so deeply before how sacred that emblem was in the eyes of a true soldier. Capt- Nathan Stone. We carried him across the street and went with the rest of the prisoners north-easterly in the direction of anoth er hotel on the river bank, originally called the Whitney House, then called the City Hotel and since better known as the Dufree House. This house was i ^ m 4^ OJ ri - 0) 0) o n3 c« '■+J r^ ^ ^ m o H +3 O) -*-3 -*j rc; f5 ri ■+J X3 a cc r^ ^ ^ be "u 3 bD 1=1 < CD ^ o Oi CO O 1 X) ^• ^ o •-• »-■* » •-•-•- til. n kept by Capta'n Nathan Ston^>, a large, brave, g.iod heartHcl man, who had boarded (inaatrt'll— alias Charley Hirt — while he stayed in Lawrence, and whose family had nuisel him thrtxigli a t 'nii of sickness. While we were being dr.v n like a Hock of stieep towards Ibis house, Quantre 1 himself made his appearance, riding along on our lefr, and Grilling out at the top »f his voiiv, 'Years ago old mm Stone treated me witli kindness, and Til be d — 1 to h — 1 if a h iir of tiis head shall b-i i ijured." Anl we were all safely lodged m Captiin Stont's hotel. Whether we were entir>ly safe in our new quarters we were n )t at all positive, but we thought so from what Quan rell had said of his obligation to Captaii Stone, and the determination that not a hair of his head sh )uld be injured. Andb^sdHS, as yet we knew n)thing of the terrible wok of death lliat h;id all the morning bet-n going on all around us in the devoted cicy. We knew ih it the c.ty was in tiam-s for we could see it with our ovvn eyes, how the best buildings — and, in fact, all the buildings that would burn were rapidly yielding and turning to ashes before the dtvonring element, but we had seen no murder. We thought that ou - lawry would be c mtent with the plun- der and destruction of the town, and little dreamed that its streets and lanes and vacant squares were at that very momf^nt thickly strewn with corpses, and that many of the dead were being consumed in the burning buildings. ►-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-•-••-•-•-•-•-•■ (0 JO 0' CD (T: f3 H^ Hi CD Q Ms 5^ CD 5:;; c-t- CD ■-:- ►3 J-^ 1 — - B. h-b H ^ B' \-> c-l- gs P^ >-> c4- CD CfQ ^ CJQ CO t-i CD P ^ B m Ul 0^ CD B 1 — ' CD P^ CD CD P w CD P^ ^ CD 5" P ^ ^ ro CD ^n h.J i-i 1— i p 73 CD CX) W CO W c+- W 10 ^ ^^ c-h ^ cT go 1^ Q CD l-b p P CO Ul M p^ §. ^ P CD CD r+-' c-t-' W trt- i-J c^-. CD P j-H g ^ cd' ^ GO ^ 0' m J^ W §. ^ B |_L ^ irt-" cp" 19 Prisoners at the City Hotel. We had been kept close prisoners, and still were so, for tlier- were smtries j Jaced in Ircini of the City Hotel to keep us from l^-avi g it. Thei^e sentries called lor some- thing to eat, aiid wh^n it was given them, stood quietly ^ fS .5 rf 'ri at their posts and ate it. We, the pris- cp ^ O oners, had the whole hotel to ourselves. , with whom, politically, he had always o S ol '^ ^ acted. He spoke of this raid upon '^ ffl gn gn ^ Lawrence as having been provoked ^ j^ O) &^ ■^ ^"^ brought on by depredations of the 'o . ^ a; c3 abolitionists called "red legs," who had r5 ^ i: '5 A for years made Lawrence their head- •-•-•-«-« « •-■ qu irters while enticing negroes to run away from their masters and steal their htirses or mules— some! imts wa?on and other sfood^, as the best means of g^'ttino: away, lie rlso spoke of the atiocinus doings of ^ome[of the Kansas troops in t'le border counties of Missouri, and i>articularly of the robbin;^ and burning of the town of Lane's Soldieiis Bui:n Osckola, Mo OsceolH, a town as large as Lawrence, ht the head of the stt^am-boat naviga- tion on the Osage River which had been recently captured by Lane's brig- ade. We could not agree on these mat- ters, and meanwhile the sun shone so hot in the east door where we were sit- ting, that we adjourned to the dining room, which occupied the north side of the house and was cool. That morn- ing, by thi^way, was one of the very hottest 1 remember to have seen in Kansas, yet I may as well remark here in passing that four d;iys af cerward we had a severe frost Tuesday, August 25. which killed some crops on low land, and extending to liliuitis, Iowa, Indi- ana and Wisconsin, did great damage. Walsh and I continued the discus- sion for some time, until our attention was roused by the tramp of horses on the south front of the hotel, and loud voices, ciUing on everybody in the house lo come out. The language they used was coarse and rrtfianly, such as drunken men are accustomed to use, and run in this wis : "Here, you G— d C7*- ' r+ s5 H-" CD o' 3 o F^ S lO 93 \—' h- ' hT' P o > r-t- m CD O < If} o Ms crq B' CD c+ aq c+ O CD l-l o in GO CD t-i CD M 1 — ' 93 ~ pj CD 6 go O 93 P hJ^ r+ o' 1— 1 00 CD 2. B' aq p CO cc B' o p o 93 ?o (3^ (jq p fC CD CD B. < O O O P^ c-e cT O ^ B 93 E' o' CD CD 3 gT q H-ts r+-' 03 2- ^ O ^ l-i Cl xn ere a. CD m (X) '—I Hi CD in c-e CD CD *-i !:i to O CD P^ o lo CD P^ -».* 21 d— sons of b— chs, come out here! Come right out here, all of you I" There were probably not far from one hundred of us in the hi")use at that time, and those in the front rooms went out on tlie piizx I as fast as th^y could £fet out through the dours. ° 2 § ^ c3 CD !:o fl CD "^ o o 03 fs ce C3 r-l 1—1 0) O 53 rj rH (D • • '^ o CD o ^ 2 Q O -S ^ 1 rS CD || g c o o (D Si > 3 o pq o o o CD ^ g o ce 2 :5 (/3 CO -"^ M O CD I did not go, because there was no chance to get through the crowd for one reason, and because I did not like to accept the terms of the invitation for another. I did not like the implied insult to my mother. The next mom- GuEKP.iLLAs Shooting Prisoneus. ent I heard the crack of revolvers, and the screams of frightened women who came rushing back to where I was, crying out, "They are shooting the prisoners." I did not wait for further pariiculars, but raised one of the north windows of the dining room which opened out upon the bank of the Kaw river, and got out, first helping out two or three ladies, one of whom I think was Mrs. Benian and her little girl, and the others I have forgotten. They each had a small bundle of valuables, which I assisted them to hide as we clambered down the steep bank in sight of the ferry landing. There was no bridge across the Kansas river at that time from its mouth to its source, though one was commenced at Law- rence on the spot where it still stands, after sundry disasters and changes. I could see the ferry boat on the north side of the riyer, and a crowd of thirty or forty people about it. I calUd at the top of my voice for them to come over and take us across, assuring them that there was no danger, and the boat soon came aid took us over. BAILEY ESCAPES ACROSS THE I>:AW. I fuuiid on landinsf from the ferry boat that there were sume dozen sol- diers in uniform, well armed of course-, and as many Delaware Indians wiih thtir rifles, besides a mi^jceilaueous crowd of citizens, or pqualters, who be- longed on that side of the river. They had been there all the morning but had not dared to crohs, not knowing the force of the enemy, but had used their rifles to good purpose by shooting across at any rebel horsemen they could see within range. They had kill- ed one man who was helping to cut down the big flag I spoke of. They were entirely ignorant of the situation of affairs on the south side, except what they cuuld see and hear — the flames aLd smoke, the filing and the yells and shrieks 1 explained to them briefly what I knew, and told theoQ 1 thought the main body of the outlaws had left town, but a few strag- glers remaind who were drunk and dev- ilish. Telling them of what had just happened at the hotel, they took my view of the case, and all who had arms got into the boat and crossed the river at once. They were met on the other side by Captain Frank IJ. Swift, who ^ (t) CD p B o' O P" P CD o' go p v/ r^ go <1 O CD ^ w O CD a' 23 Capt. FlIANK B. swift AND FORCES. had served a term in the First Kansas, and he marched them up into the city just in time to see the last of the stragglers ride olf at full gallop to rejuin the main body. For myself, still in my stocking feet, I wandered off on the Leiven worth road till I came to a new house in the woods, about where the railroad now stands, belonging to Col. Garrett, and there I got a good break- fast and a pair of old shoes. After this I went back to the ferry house, where I found a large crowd of fugitives from the burned city, and was shocked to see Captain Stone mortally wounded lying on a bed, and learned that he had been shot down on the piaza of the ho- tel at the moment I made my escape from it. He died that same day or the next, he was a good and brave man and had refused to have a white flag displayed from his house that morning, declaring that he would rather take his chance. As I stated, Quantrell had stated that "Not a hair of his head should be injured," but the men who murdered him were stragglers, not at that time under Quantrell's control. Capt. STONE FINALLY SHOT. It afterwards came out that he was killed on purpose as a special act of re- venge by a man who had stayed behind when his companions of the main body ■i^ 'o S3 "^^^ ^^ fulfill a threat he made to the good old man's daughter an hour or ^ s c3 Pi ^ Ul 0) =4H ^ (D r^ ^ rt C« rt .'^ mj '>i .r-H r-l r^ 4-! r— i ^ 'c« 0) S-H (D 0) CD r^ '^ s r-t (D ifl ^ '^ ^J' =tH t— 5 g -A 0) ^ '-+3 1 — 1 C/3 CD 3 -^ Kfl -f^ > o3 -f^ Q) XSl ^ hti 03 p — 1 ^ ffl 6 g +3 6 CO CO ^ GO -t-3 1—1 -l-i Xl Pi CD pj ce rH ^ CD Q CD u >■ two before. "And thereby hangj a tale'" as the story books sav — the tile of aiing. It seems that when Qnantrell boarded with Stone and was sici< Ht the house, Miss Lydia Stone waited ou him during his sickness, and in return lor her kindness he gave her a diamond ring of considerable value, and as if foreseeing the stormy times to come, he charged her to keep it in token of his friendship, ihrougn life. That ring she wore on her finger that fateful morning, and when it was seen by one of the villains who robbed the guests of the house, he demanded that also. She valued the ring highly— as most young ladies are apt to value diamond rings— and told the rufili^n liow she came by it. It made no difference to him, he said, who she got it frt>m; ''Ilaud it over, quick!" And she did, but no- ticed his dress and afterward sent for Quantrell and told him of her loss, de- scribing the man who took her ring. Miss Lydia Stone's Ring. Quantrell swore it should be returned, and soon the same rutlian who took it came back and returned it, acting very sulkily and mutteiing as she took it from his hand, that she would be "d — d sorry for it!" And for this he planned and executed the brutal murder of her father, as I have described. But one other man was shot down in that charge— a peddler, 3 believe, and I think he recovered. 1 heard this story CD O m cr o o O ^ Hi CD fro tJ ?3 a o o 1 — ' n ^ CD ^ c-t- 2. H^ ^ o ^ O O 1^ O o P= fa r+ c^- (fi O fa P O O 2. 1 — 1 o CO g3 t-b p.- Hj .T) o rD Ki h^ iy.' < 25 .-»-«-«-»-•-»-«-»-»-♦-—-•-♦-»-•-• _,-,-«-«-,-«-,-«-«-,-»-«-.-> ^ of the ring at the time, but gave little credaace to i t i considering it a romantic invention. But in 1881, ^ eighteen years afterward , I saw this same lady then, I Mrs. Kiosbury, wife of the public printer of Dakota I Territory, living at Yanfeton, but on a visit to friends i at Lawrence, and had the story from I her own lips nearly as I have related it. i At the ferry laudirxg on the nortti J side of the Kaw river 1 found most of ^ the people who had t-een in the Eld- i redge House and afterwards in the f City Hotel with me; but they knew no A o more of the situation than 1 did. One i ^ Mrs- Fkazier ; a; lady, Mrs. Frazier, v. hose husband, a I ^ ra I Jeweler, was on a busiaess trip to the i ^ ^^ ' Indian Territory, or the military camp ; r^ cs § ^ there, was extremely nxious about her • *S ;£ 1=1 p^ brother, James PeDi.ie, who was a i Ph <1 << <1 drug clerk in the lar s store of Eld- \ ^ redge & Ford. I trie J to assure her of ^ ^ his safety and prua.i:,ed to send her i word to that effect a!^ loon as possible, f 1 I then crossed over by ferry to the ^ •43 south side, little drearmng of the horri- t S ble spectacle 1 was lu encounter. At ; ^^ the north end of Main St., (Massachu- I I J seits St.) I passed a blacksmith shop i T ^ . where the blacksmith laid dead on the i IH-j ^ floor. Thisshop and a few morebuild- I ^ p I ings near it had escaped burning, be- i 0-1 cause it was so near the river, there i T m ® "^" ^^^ danger of being shot by the J I '^ •;::3 be riflemen on the north bank. As I t T ^ !^ ^ have explained, the county building ^ T was in ashes and several of the county f T f 26 td td > a§ 9 m go - o officers had been killed, among them Captain G. W Bell, the county clerk. Dirtcily in the i ear of the county building ilieie had been a bo k bindt-ry and a m^n lay with his feet Oil the sidewa k aid his head burnt off. Opio.ite a-^io s the street, loomed up the Bailey's Houses black- ened walls of the Eldredge Hi.use, but the stable in the rear of it had escaped lurLiog. It was in that stable 1 had left my horses and bug^y tlie nighl be- fore, and as th<^y were borrowed for the trip 1 was UHluially anxious fur their safety. Though i considered the chance.*! more tuau desperate, 1 eot led the stable and examined the vacant stalls. My borro-ved horses were not there, but hanging against the walls I found the new set of double harness all complete, except Oue bridle, or head- stall. Outside in the street I found the buggy unhaimed. JSo I was only short a span of hoises and a trunk full bd W td of books and clothing which I had left at the hotel some weeks before. I did not stop long at the stable, but jas-ed on to where the Johnson house had stood on Vermont St but before reach- ing it I encountered a group of women and children standing iu the hot sun with a few articles saved from their burned dwellings piled up on the ground around them. Just then a gen- tleman and lady mounted on tine hois- es, rode past, and as they did so were greeted with yells of execration by the group of women. I asked the reason (t) p o B m O 2f of this, and was told that the lady h;td been riding all over as a guide to the outlaws, pointing out the peo pie lo be killed. I afterwards learned that this was a mistake, and that the lady had really been the means of saving several lives by her earnest intercession in Miss Sallie Young their behalf, or as claiming them as friends of her own, when in fact they were strangers. This young lady was Miss Sallie Young, of Lecompton, who had Come down to Lawrence on a visit to Gov. Shannon's family, and who, in taking an ear y morning ride, had met the Quantreil gang and had been detained by theiu and compelled to act as guide about the city. She was deserving of pra: sh rather than the execrations she received, but the cir cumstancts, unexplained, were all- againbt her, and the houseless women 1 saw, whose houses bad been burned and husbands murdered, were in no mood to make allowtinces. They were wives and children of workingmen, and had lost their all. Some of them were Irish, and whenever I read of an evictiou 1 am reminded of that group of houseless women and children. Johnson House The Johnson House, a large two story stone building, was burnt, and everything belonging to it but the well which still remains to mark the place where it stood. It was one of the first good buildings erected in the young > . . 'Jl W M -s o ^ ^ CJ H-J ^ ^ % o O Q ^ § J 1 1 1-5 - 1 „ p ^ o ^ s ^ O r-i! ^ O O o O O O 28 > 5' city, one of the two or three that have never been re- built. Nearly opposite this was the Methodist church a small wooden building, in the place of which an ele- gant new edifice of brick has been erected and near- ly tioished. Old and new escaped burning, and the old Church a 'Mourge' house was now changed into a 'morgue ^ g or dead house, and a ghastly array of dead bodies, many of them partly burnt and some almost reduced to a cinder, had been collected, while more were be- ing brought in every few minutes. I could recognize no one 1 knew in this sad gathering and passed en to where o the tents had stood, several of which % were still standing, while the soldier ^ boys who had slept in thtm the night ^ before were scattered thickly all >^- around on the prairie grass sward. =t. And so I wandered up and down the B fire-blasted streets to see the dreadful ^ mark of ruin on every hand. Almost every business house in town was in ashes. All had been tired, but two or ttiree had escapt^d, either by the lack of a good start or by the early coming « f the owners to extinguish the flames. There were two bninks and both were ^ p Q burnt after the safes had been broken ; open and robbed. The express office, ' which did a large business, was also burnt, and it was supposed that it had been robbed of all its valuables, includ ing a large amount of money, much of which had been sent home by soldiers for the support of their families. But ^ W ^ ^ P • 20 > it proved that this money was not .st. The man in charge of the office, Mr. James E. ^vatson, had man- aged to carry the money packages away in his arms and hid it securely in the ravine jn^c west of Main street, and as soon as the circumstan,;es wan anted he came higging it back ;.■> the new office provided, and it was found that not a dullar was missing. Mr. Watson was afterwards county treasurer and was accused of a heavy defalcation, but I never could be made to believe that a man wiio had been tried as he was, and proved faithful to his trust when no person on earth would ever have suspected him of v/rong if he had kept the whole am O (/} 73 Hj - W S ~' ^ P P Q o P- • hS 3 31 O a o > Baker, was shot down and left on tb' .-jound for dead, but fortunately ha did not die. 1 wards night of that day I was passing along the street, past the place where the great store had bten and saw some peison about the rums. 1 halted to see who it could illDENOUR AM) BaKER be and found it was Mr. Ridenour him- self picking up the fragments and get- liug ready to rebuild at the earliest moment the heat of the smouldering ruins would permit. He did rebuild and his partner tventually recovertd, as they are now one of the most pros- perous firms in Kansas City, to which place they moved some dozen years ago — though they had for years done a larger business in Lawrence than any grocery house west of S5t Louis. I men- tion this incident to illustrate the spir- it that animated almoit every man in Lawrence. They did not stop to con- sider whether they would rebuild their city or not, but set to work at once without a moment's hesitation. The bridge across the river was just begun and would cost forty thousand dollars. The work on it did nut stop fur a single day. I saw the wajcons hauling the big dimension stones for the founda- tions and abutments through the black ened street, while ne . ly 200 dead lay unburied on each side of the track. Lawrence had been curnt before and rebuilt. It must be but again with- out delay! Such wae the spirit of Kan- sas in 18t)3. •^ r. ^ ^ > o „ H-3 J b rt rn ■s ^ 0) a o +-> 0) 'f-i OS o o o 32 All that dny I WHlked tlirough the streets of the ruin- ed city, and fuuncl th3 blackness of d soiaii n every- where except where the blackn' ss was Lloited out with the red stains of blooi .1 li^te.ied to the stoiies of the houseless victim;*, and heard many a tale of Rev. II. D. Fishek hair breadth escape?. Walking do^^ n ihe q j^ ^ main street bef >re noon, 1 chanced to 3* i "^ be present at the aieeiing of Hev. H. ct J q D. Fisher and Chas. Duncan. T'isher -' Q t^ had been p^stor of the Methodist *^ fL w_ church in Lawrence, bu', had accepted ^ f^ the post of chnplaii! in the Fifth Kan- ^ sas Infantiy, and been dt tailed to take • charge of the runaway slaves who were everywhere flocKing to the Union camps and needed some one to lake care of them. Mr Fi-her was an ard- ent hater of slavery and entered upon his duties with z-^al and ethciency. He had brought hundreds of the fugitives from the v\ar-strickHn borders (>f Mis- souri to the free soil of Kansas, and had fount places for them where they could earn their living by their labor. And he had quite recently biou.ht a load of them up from St. Louis. In many cases h^f had advised the negroes to help themselves to the abandoned property of their rebel masters, find many a go d span of mules or horses with W'gon attached came out loaded with fugitive families, their bed and bedding and such poor remnants of food and lurniture as they could get together on short notice. Of course <1 0' ri- B m Ch ^ ^ l-b c-l- p h^ hJ^ ^ a> P y CD VI W GO S P s. P « - p.' B w ^ m CD • a> P S3 this made Mr. Fisher a marked man aiong the rebels aad his life was not vvortli a mon -y^nt's purchase if they could lay hands on him. Mr. Dnucan was a lead- ing merchant in Lawrence, a Met! dist and an old- lime Democrat as he is yet. Rather =i rare combina tion. ]}oth had lost everything. IJoth had their houses bun ■ and each met in thy acreet, unaware t 11 that moment whether the other was alive or dead. They were smoke bep^rimed and dusty for it was one of the hottest and dust- Qj iest August days I ever saw, and they . ^ threw themselves into each others arras and embraced with tne ardor of two p school girls. And then each related his story of deadly peril and escape. Mr. I'Msher's was truly marvelous — almost S miiaculous, in fact, aod 1 am glad so 1^ many of the people of Garden City re- cently heard it from his own lips, for I despair telling it as it was told to them though the impression will never be ef- faced. Mr. Fisher had just come home and Wcis in his huuse, a tive story brick, near the coiner of the park where the •^ tiends had ct.me to kill him. They had ^ a carefu ly prepared list of the men to be killed, a copy of which was picked rd '^ S up by a son of Mr. Slillman Andrews, who now lives on a claim near Sher- '^ ^ ^ fn cc ® ^ f3 ^ ce 0) c3 1— 1 1 — 1 P^ W M 0) r-< 1 — 1 -(-= =M O cc i-i a 1-2 a o) .2 ce I ^ te -^ lock in this county. This list compris- ed the names of the best known abo- ff oT cfi litionists, and among others was the S CD ce name of Mr. Fisher (and of course, td ti 14 -'Jim Lane.") The ruffians had had 34 \ spies in tt^wn and knew the licviS' s wi ere the cluooi - ! ed men lived. They burnt the houses, but as a rule T the owners esca; ed. They came to Fishei's bouse Y and h-) knew ai on ;e that if se:!n he was lost. He ran ! down cellar and hid himselt in a sp ace where the t cellar Rev. H. D. Fisher T wall had been left incomplete, and left b- ^ ^ ■ ^ CD ^ Ci 1/2 rt ^ O c^ • •-I - 0) o q o J ^J ^ rH ^ K 3G ?= if :^ 5^ o ^ her near C irondolet, Missouri, but when I went to And her she was not there, and as far as I know, she had never communicated with her pare t*, or heard from them since freedom came. Ma y more of tlat steamboat load are still living in Lawrence and vicinity John amd James Donnely and some of whom have bought farms and are thrifty farmers on a small rcale, I thick it was Saturday, the day after the raid, that I was walking in the south part of the city, when some- one on horseback hailed me, and ridiny; up rapidly asked me if I knew what had become c.f the hors'^s I diove frc>m Topeka. I told him I did Pot and iiev- er expected to know, as the guerrillas had taken them, of course. "O no," he he replied. "I took care ( f thos-e hors- es, you bet! You h ft them in my care and 1 did not forget it. When I found the relies had come I took t^ ose horses down into ihe ravme and have taken pood c.tre (.f them ever since." It was John Donnfly or his brother, James, I am n.t i-ertain wlich, but these horses were safe and were duly returned to the owner, Andrew Stark, of Topeka, then clerk of the supreme court, horse, buggy ard harness all complete, except one bridlv^, lud been found, but by that bridle hai gs a tale which was not dis- closed tdl the next winter. 1 think it was one morning in February that Mr. Stark was on the street and saw a team hitched in front of the store over which 9^ I — I t- -■ ; > 37 he had his office, and he chanced to . jLice that one of the horses had on a bridle exactly like the one lost at Lawrence. It was a new bridle wht a I borrowed it, and like the two harnesses was trimmed with blue. He soon found the man who owned ihe team, and as soon as he began to ask about "that bridle,"' the man grew very uneasy, and was very willmg to give it up. He tinally explained that he took it from the Eldredge House stable on the morn ing of the Quantrell raid, not being Ijj -r-^ able to find his own in his haste to get away to save his life. He lived down in Johnson county, some sixty miles from Topeka, and had never been at Topeka before. It almost seemed that he had come on purpose, and to that very house in order that the owner of the bridle might have his own again. Mr, Stark cared nothing about the bridle, but was much interested in the fctory of its loss and recovery. The man who took it was evidently afraid of be- in ing charged with participating in the .2 raid. Mr. JStark was satistied with his 'o story and accepted the bridle with an f> apology. This is a trifling incident, perhaps, but it completes the etory of ^ my burrowed team — which by the way cS 1^ was borrowed by Wm. R, Brown, now 42,-; . of Larned, late M. C. and still later, I^ lJ -^ register of the Larne'l land ofhce. His parents living at Lawrence, he borrow- O) T) bJD . rn ^ w ^ rk CD 4J 5r! eg i7) n:^ ^^ bb O) s u U 55 oi o3 -M W cc CC OJ 0) 4^ «fH O 0^ pl p g ed the team for the trip, and went by o ^ ^ ^ way of my farm on the Wakarusa, in ^ ^ order to ste my patca of cotton, which 38 ^ t3 O o 1 — ' O ^ o P 2. PT O ■^ ^ (T> ^ =H O P CD r/5 was just thea beginning to blossom though planttd about the first of June. That cotton proved to be a good crop and ofa good qua lily, for I sold it in July 1864 in Bofet)n for ^L.50 per pound, which was within ten cents of the highest price ever i ail I think in the Boston market. That proves that cotton Will grow iu Kansas and mature even when late planted, but it dues nut prove it can De raised profitaDly at pies ent prices. Judge Louis Carpenter « One of the suddest calls I made on that blacktst ot Blaek Fndajs was ac Ihe house of my young Inend, Judge Louis Carpeuier, v\ho had been ap- pointed reporter of the supreme court to succeed Preston B. Plumb (now sen. ator) who had been tiist appointed, but had resigned to go into the army, where be rose to the ri.nk of a colonel. Judge Carpenter was a joung lawyer of de- cided talent and great iadustry, and had but a few montt'S bt-fore married a very amiable and accomplibhHd young liidy from Emporia, with whom 1 was well acqua ned. He had just complet- ed the erection of a new brick house in the south part of town, and there I had visited him and ids bride but a lew wt-eks belore. Then he was in high hope, and as happy as a young man so happily situated had a right to be. This time I found him dead, and his young wife and her sister, Mis. Morse ot Emporia, wife of Rev. G. C. Morse were distractedly weeping over his W ^ hd m '^ ^ CD Q3 ^ O K I — ' c-t- o 3 < o' erf- B w O 2. CD CD > <1 w o pi . rj © • CC O 2 „ 0) a 'O oT CD Tj S bj] SiC W >:. Pi fl "S o) ce ce ^ K K K h cc . 5:1 ^ S S V' rH wart, ith, C iwab, 0) d r^ -is a o :/! m m bloody rtmains. Mrs. Morse came up from Emptr a J by stagi only t le day before on her iitsc visit to her I sister since her marriage-, and before sunrise the next i morn.i.g was d:!Stiiied co Witness one of the most bru- J tdl and savage butcherits ever perpetialed in a Christ- i ian land. The guerrillas called on J Judge Carpenter about sunrise and wanted water. He had a fine well close by his house and drew water for the men and their horses till all had enough ' and then they coolly turned their re- volvers cind commenced shooting- VVouuded at the tirst iire, he ran into the house followed by the hell- hounds, shooting at e\vjry step, through several doors, while ht.s blood spurting from his wounds si.uned the door frames. Down in the cellar he fled in the vain hope of esc pe, followed by his shrieking wife an .a her sister, as well as the liends bent on his murder There he fell upon thd cellar bottom, aud his devoted wife and her sister threw themselves upon his body in the vain hope of shielding him from furth- er violence. But no. The tiends coolly lit ted the dresses of the shrieking ladies fco as to uncover his head, and dis- 1 charged bullet nfter bullet till he was i dead. By some means they failed to ? burn the house of ihe^r victim, and it I still remains to remind me whenever 1 J pass it of the horrible tragedy. Mrs. \ Carpenter was almost distracted with i srief, and returned to her former avo- f cation as a teacher. But time, a great I soother, came to her relief, and after f many years of widowhood, she became i 40 the wife of Hon. John C. Rankin, of Quenemo, O- sage county — late county treasurer of that county and a suctesstui farmer and business man. Perhaps I am dwelling on the particulars of this greit calamity, but I am trying to give a true narrative of what! saw and heard, and this was one of the most shocking incidents, and botii he and his wife were my very dear friends. I mentioned seeing Mrs. Frazier at the ferry landing when Captain Stone lay dying, and her anxiety about the safety of her brother, James Pcrnue, a clerk in the store of Eldredgd & Furd. I hid but little doubt myself of his per- sonal safety and tried my best to as- sure h'-r of It, and promised to send her t le good news at tlie eailiest opportu nity. Alas! the tirst man I enquired of told me that Jam^ s Perrine was about th) tirst man murdered that morning. He a ;d his f ll)w clerk, James Eld- rcidg^, occupied a slet-ping room in the stare, whicii was large and aLtraciive and wh^ n they bruke open the store for plunder, tiiey n.ituraly kiiied the two young men. I also spoke of W. H Baker, of the firm ut ilideuoui" & Baker, as being left for dead. But he did not die, and is one of the best business men in Kan- sas City to day. His attempted murder heads another chapter of most horrible atrocity. He was neivly married at the time and was boarding at the huuse of Dr W. F. Gtiswold together with Hon. S. M. Thorpe and wife and J. F. Trass, ^^ ^ c tzl » f-i '^. CD >r 93 - B ^ I 1/3 O 1^ ^ 1 w ^ ^ < o' r-t- B m C s^^ B o EC t^^ c o 1=: .15 CD - w 6 ^ ta 92 a > & S ^ D , ^ ^ o O c^ P 41 and wife, Thorpe had been a teac itr in Lawreiicr', th» n jJlate superiotendent of schools and was at that tiiu'^ Slate senator ,Dr. Griswoid was also a young man muTieJ. and Mr. Trask, editor of the Lawrence Sta e Jourual, had but few weeks befiue returned from Massachusetts with h blooming bride Dr. Griswoid had r turned only the tha night before fro n a visit to the east, and as he came up to his own house expressed his extreme satisfac- tion of finding himsel at his peaceful home ouce more. Alas, scarcely twelve ^ hours were to elapse b-'fore he and his true friends, Baker, Trask and Thorpe were all called out aud shot down in front of his own house. Hon. S. M. Thorpe All were left for dead, and Griswoid and Trask were so; IJiker and Thorpe were desperately wounded, Thorpe mortally. He lingered a few days in hopeless agony but maintained a cheer- ful spirit to the last. In the senate the winter previous, Hon. Edward iiussell, to whom we in Finney county are so much indebted for th- construction of the Great Eastern Irrigation Ditch \)i'd been Thorpe's colhague from Don- iphan county, and as the senate at that tme was prohibited from acting on any measure till it had first passed the lower house, Thorpe and lUissell had amused their leisure by raising and de- basing a good many questions of order. They were warm personal friends and Mr. Russell, hearins? of the condition of Mr. Thorpe, made haste to visit him r/) o o; rt r— 1 ce %A r5 1— 1 O i^ 0) in 14 fcfi IT. ^ O 0) K =i-i o w 0) < o t-3 bo I Thorpe, though almost ia the ia.t stage of his case, look - J ed up aud instautly reoguized his seuaturial Irieud, T Russell, and with a soqIIh on his pale face t.> remind If him of the senatorial debating schoo', atid of liis i present desperate coadition, he called out cheerfaliy, \ T "Well, Ed, they have moved the pre- i \ vious question on me!" T The previous question was sustained and a brave spirit was lost to Kansas. Three young widows were left in one house to mourn the loss of three young men, their husbands, who were among the most promising that had ever come to Kansas. Mrs. i rask has never mar- ried a second time, but until recently for many years, was the efficient li- Drarian of the Lawience City Library. Mrs. Thorpe returned to New York, and her son met and grteted me a year or two since in Lawrence, a tine, prom- ising >oui g man. Mrs. Griswo'.d, after many years of widowhood, was happily married to Hon. Geo. A. liank^, uf Lawrence. The burial of the victims of the raid was a work that could not be neglect- ed on account of the intensity of the heat, but thedigg)ngof 18u graves in such weather where the victims Wcre to be buried comprised so large a share of the able bodied working men of the "r^ place-alter alluwinsr tor the great number who had before enlisted for the war— was a question of cifficulty. Many of the bodies were burned past recognition, and others were s rangers A long deep trench was dug in the old p ^ ri 1 — 1 ro O r t1 iO ^ P <1 Ul P > o <^ nj o w c+ o B rl O h-h ^ S c-l- P P=1 FT' tJ-V CD ro" r P ^ "^ rt > GD PL w P <-l f^ cr r. tf CD 4-5 W K O o 02 C/3 R ^ 1-3 u Ctmetery on the hill, where Barber, the free state marts r had beea buried in December, 1855, and there a largH nuiuber of the victims of this list outrage were laid side, by side. I'here they rested until years alter iiie cljse of the war, when they were removed to the new Oak Hill cemetery and a httiug monument erected to their memory which is annually bedecked with flow- ers. Others were buried by the side of their friends with due solemnity. I attended the funeral of Juage Louis Carpenter on .Saturday, August> 22 and shall never f jrget the solemn scene Miis. (tROVeman While at that house of mouniin* ] heard Mrs. Grovema :, a widow, relate the story of her adventures with the outlaws who called at her house and were about to set it on fire. She beg- ged of them to spare it and ugred that it was hers alone; than she was a wid- ow with a young d lughter and that was her all. It was a good house and uas surrounded with beautiful flowers and shrubbery whid; her own hands hid planted and traiiit-d. She appeal- ed to the leader of the gang and asked him if he did not think that house was "too pretty to burn?" 'Yes, by G— d" he broke out, "It is t('> pretty to burn and it shan't be burnt, by G — d it shan't.' And he oalleed off his gang and left the widow in peace But it was not for long. In about an hour anoth- er squad of guerrillas came on the same errand. The pretty house must be burned and no mistake. She could have O < < o 0) K 'M o w . rt fl 'f, o c5 .^ O 44 a few moments to remove socoe of ter fi'rniture. But again she plead for her home, asonl/ a mother still youDg and iuteresiing can plead for the home that shelters her and h^r dear one. At last she &aid that one party had been there ou the bame errand that, morning The widow described the kader as well as she could, and as he whs a marked ruffian in dress and features, she described him so well that the sec- ond leader recognized him, and as soon as he did so, exclaimed with an air of astonishment: "WfU by G— dl If Bill Anders n agreed that your house should be spared. Til be damned if I am the man to I urn it." And he ca'!- ed off his men, so the house was saved. Another lady, Mrs. Ford, hnd a similar experience, as I have been told, atid her house and bertutiful grounds remained uninjured. Gej^eral Lane Gener.,1 Lane's large two story brick house in the wtst part of town, was OLe of the flrtt to be visited. Thf-y had h >ped 10 Hnd iiira at home, but he had early taken thtj a'arm and escaped into a corn field nut tar off. They setrclied the hou--e and then made preparations to burn it, but gave Mis. Lane permission to save what she could. There was a nice piano in the parlor and ?he was anxious to save it, so she asked some of the men to help lier carry it out. They took hold of it readily and carried ic to the door, and finding that it was too wide to go o <1 ^ o w c-t- B CO r* O ^^ C/J o ^• O w W Pj o - p ^ W > '^ h £■ p.' ^ ^ ft) CD ^ V^ T 45 ^ through the door they left it. They !iowever assisted ^ Mrs. Lane and her two daughters in bringing up a t lot ot preserves and canned t'luit fi 3 going westward gaye the alarm and T o '^ ^ o began to organize a company for pur- I P-l o 1-5 ^^^^- Meanwhile the main body of the I OQ § a; ^ ^■'iiJt^rs had finished their hellish work T • > ':^ ^ **nd started on their retreat. They I o5 rt "^ knew there were foices at Kansas T . '"' p pj City which would be after them as T (jj ^ =*-• '^ soon as they got the news of their in- ^ r;:^ ^ "3 "^ vasion, and as these would come from i "^ ^ A 3 the east, the raiders started directly T iyj ^ 3 '^ south, burning and killing as they J ^ -^ «2 S went. Mr. Otis Longley lived in a new I ^ d' g - brick house nearly a half mile west of T '^ ca =^ ^ their line uf march on the Clinton :;;J o; cfH i-H road, but a party ot the marauders I •'^ ^ '^ '-^ found him in the field and chased him T ^ Ph .^ ^ firing rapidly, till they killed him as I 5 ^ '^ ^ 'd he was climbing a r>nce to escape. J ^ (D M P^ '^ For some reason tb^y did not burn \

<1 3 his house, perhaps ]>•. cause it was of T 5 ^ 5i) 'g 2 hrick and not so easy to kindle, but I '^ ^ --^ ^ they burnt nearly or quite every other I S '"^ 00 .^ CM house on taeir route or at least sev- § ^ o3 n:5 en or eight mites out, and the smoke Pi •'-' t' i of the burning buildi gs guided Maj. t ^ h ^ ^ rrt ^''""^b and his batalufu of the Ilth. T rH ^ ^ § 5^ KansiJS in their pursuit. It after- ■ ■ ■ 1.U l/J w fl") \ J .2 O -^ 46 ] -" i t wards appeared that the pursuit had been delayed I t for several hoars i i co isequ^uce of Gen. Ewiiig's ab- k sencefrom his headquarters at KansasLity when the I messenger arrived there with the news that Quantrell J with a large force had crossed over into Kansas and were J t 23 t"^ o P Major Plumb's Pursuit apparently headed for Lawrence. Gen. Ewing had gone up to his home in ^ '.', L*»aven worth and could only be reach- R q { J ed by telegraph; the telegraph oper- SB- * t ator was not at the office which oc ^ "^ J Tf casioned more delay. But as soon as ©^ J^ I word coiild be got to him, orders g: ^ t were sent back to Maj. Plumb, who ,j | sible. Again there was difficulty. The O ^ ^ only force available was the llth, Kan «!< • ^ sas, and that regiment had just been o q^ >^ changed from an infantry to a cavalry «r^ S o or mounted regiment. The order for ^ "^ B the change had just been received, <) S' S but the men had never been mounted o| £ I or even seen their horses. The horses 5 p^ '^ ! were all green, and grass-fed, and k ^ T when mounted by soldiers who had ^ S • never served on horseback, both the "^ § I horses and men were in an awkward ^ ^ \ t fix. The morning was hot, as I have p^* ^ t I before stated, and the green, unbroken S \ 1 grass fed horses soon showed how lit- "^ o" { 2 tie they could be relied upon for a ^ Pj I 1 rapid march. The men, unaccustom- ^ &i f T ed to use their arms on horseback ^ o" I t had no confidence in themselves or tJ' ^ t i Cfi o vv 1 47 each ether, andMaj. Plumb, realizing the situation, as r straog^era could not, wisely decliaea to rush on an I equal number of desperadoes, well mounted, accus- i tomed to the saddle, doubly aimtd and desperate. I Maj. Plumb's management of the pursuit was severely f criticised at the i M c3 time by those who did not understand } 1/2 cf-l f ^ •'-' the facts, but who felt that poetic * g ^ justice required that the guerrilla I g "^ torce should have been wiped out and t *g Xi annihilated, I had h long conversa- I ■^ r^ tiou in relation to the matter with i o r^ Gen. Ewingamouth or two after the ^ 'S c« raid, in wbich he staled the facts ful- I yj r5 ly and warmly defended the conduct t g '^ of Major Plumb. The opposite course \ .2 a5 he declared would have led to the •^ ^ slaughter of Plum on force, and en o abled Quantrell to I ave returned to j-t CD his haunts in Misso ti with a grand ^ u addition to his bloody laurels. 1 had -t^ Xi known Piumb intiu'.tely for several "o =« - ' J ears before he entered the service and >i § knew tnat for resolul and undaunted '^ ^ S courage he had no iperiors and but g *o ^ few equals rt ® CC o ^ 3 Hence, when I learned as I did be 'I ^ s fore noon of the dreadful day that Plumb commanded the pursuing force, 1 knew thrtt he would do all that he possibly could with the outlaws, and o tie S < +3 ._, O -^3 '3 a -t-s o3 *4J 3 O (y v w 1— 1 s o 13 B r^ H ^ ^y ^^^y ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ hi* courage o .9 3 fired aud stimulated by the occasion -g^ o 0> would prove an overmatch for his dis- 'C ^ M cretion. «3 ^ o Under similar conditions a pursuing 48 for;ein north Mhs )iiri were WA into a'Tobusi and nt arly ev'-ry ma'i ^lau^hterecl, wliile the lel el outlaws who lia I just ihken some two hundred Stk soMiers from the cars in which ihry were r« turning honoe on turJoiigh, shot Ihem down in cold b'ojd, audni irch- ed off iu triumph. This was iinder the lead of o.ie uf the samn Anderaons who figured at Lawrence, and Sj>}ired Mrs. Grovdnor's h)ust^. I have liereto- fore explained v\ho the Andersons were in connection with Judge Arthur I. Baker and his murder near Council Grove, No more lleudish men infected the border than Jim and Bill Amier- son, both of v\h>rnwere killed before the war was over. With two more incidents 1 w 11 con- clude this somew! at extei-ded sketcii of the Quaiitreil raid. Not th it 1 have told all ti»e lacts iii relation to it, but I have told ijearly all of which 1 was personally cognizint. Love and Romance I Like death, love and romance have all seasons for their own, and the two \ incidents I am about to relate have a ■ touch of both. Tlie first I shall men- ! lion was the case of a young girl, an I orphan, 1 think, whose name I have ' forgotten, who was living with the ', family of a (German who kept a saloon I on the main street and lived in the ■ rear of the same buildini^' with his fam ! ily. He was seen and f-hot when the I guerrillas made their first charge ' a ong the itie«t shooting every man ^ !/)" c1- 3 ^ O l-h CD o h! o ^ g ^ ' p o ® Ui a : o > : '—I irf- ^ tr • ^ (X> , •-5 CO w 9? ' y '^ So' CD o r-t- 1 9 O ^-^ . n' ^ ; re CO 1— 1 Ul Ms 1 w' o 2. ^ i 3 o cd" 1 : '■< CD ! h-b ^ ; »-j ^- < B O ^ 03 r-H -^ S-l /— I CD -^ CD ^ ^ g (D CD > CD 0) CD o o .2 a> 1^ they saw. Th s young girl was witness to the death of her empl yi r and liad the presence of nind to rush behind thti bar and save the coiiteats of the mon- ey drawer for the family. She was ihen ordered by the riJlli.iis to hand down some of the bottles of liquor, to which they helped them- 8c.ves freely. Her youth and helpless- ness, aided perhaps by good looks and a ready compliance with their de- mands for liquor, made a favorable impression, and just at this moment others of the raiders were in the act of shooting a young man they hnd taken prisoner just before the saloon door. Without giving herself a moment for reflection, she rushed out from be. hind the bar and into the street to throw her arms arouiid the neck of the young man, all the iime calling him her brother and appealing to his cap- tors to spare his life. She declared he was her only brother and plead so earnestly for his life hat their savage hearts relented, and he was spared. In fact, he was an entire stranger to the girl and owed his life to the quick witted inspiration of the girl in call- ing him her brother. The story would hardly be a good one had it not result ed as it did in a speedy marriage and a happy life for both. 1 had the facts of this incident from Mrs. Gould, sis- ter of the young man, whose name was llazletine. . a o Ti (D CD r^ ce -J} O CD O ?-i CD 10 The second incident was that of a yoving man who had been employrd in D iLee's phouigraph gallery, who tinding himself ia d ing3r t )jk refuge uuder a corn ciib slandmg up a foot ur tv\o from tiie ground; theie he lay snug and safe a fdvv moments, when a young lady, daughtu' of Captain Bell, the county clerk who had been killed took refuge under the same corn crib, and then and there began an acqiuiint- ance ending in mairiage. The pleasant home of the young couple thus broujiht together may be seen about a mde south of the post office, and one or two beautiful < h id- ren with their presence, add io the charm of its abundant fruits and flowers. And here I will close my nar" rative of one of the most unprovoked and cold blooded massacres that occur red during the war, by which 186 un- armed and defenceless men lost their lives. I will only add that of the soldiers I have spoken of as being on the north side of the Kaw River, and using their rifles to good purpose by shoot- ing one or more of the raiders across the river, were a detachment of the Twelfth Kansas, and were commanded by Captain Ellis, who was alter v\ard killed in the service, and for whom Ellis county was named. 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Wdile it is true that no preparation for defense had been made for some weeks before the raid, it is not true that "no danger of an attack was ever dreamed of." All Uirough the fore part of the summer of 1863 the peo- ple of Lawrence w re very uneasy over the reports of cmtemplated raids from the bushwhackers of western o Missouri under Quantrell. It was this S feverish condition of excitement of ^ ^ the citizens of Lawveoce that caused g p. ^ the mayor of the city to make repeat- g .2 § ed requisitions on the military author A H '^ ities at Leavenworth for troops to de- ^ S ^ fend the place. 3 At this time all the available troops eg ^ g on the border were engaged in active ^ '^ ^ service in Missouri and I was muster r-r" ^ (^ ed into the service with a detach- ^ "£ . ment of Co. L, 5th. K ansas Cav. and ^ «S P^ in a very few days after, I was sent ^ 0) O to Lawrence with 25 enlisted men of ^ +^ my company to guard the city and >i .S ^id in restoring coclidence to its in- habitants. Arriving at Lawrence the same day we went 11. to camp on Mt. Oread, where we had an excellent vi«w of the city and surrounding coutjtry. O ft qn •:j o o CO o ^ ^ -^ 2 CO 9^ O (D 52 Advertisement Along with tliis is issued a pamphlet entitled "Border Ruffian Troubles in Kansas", Two thirds of it is Judge L. D^ Bailey's writings in 1887, on the "Early Days in Kansas". 20 pages of it made this pamphlet of 50 pps Lieut. Hadley's account of the 2>art that he played in those days is given in full, see page 51 of this pamphlet for an extract. Several interesting acc'ts of the Raid are either giv- en in full or reviewed. Several chapters 'Along the Santa Fe Trail", are given. Tie ' Massecreof the Ma 'tis des Cygnes" has two acc,ts given Abel Yate's story of Earl y Days occupies 2 or 3 chapters and the reader will find the 100 Octavo pages closely print- ed equal to many of the 300 page books in matter; only 100 copies are printed of it in pamphlet form, price 50 & 75 cents. C. R. 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