The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-17
QUANTRELL.
Further Evidence Of His Death in
Kentucky.

While at Boonyille, Mo-, in the fall o
1865, we met an old Confederate surgeon
who had been chief medical officer in tn,
Gulf Department during the later years Of tn,
rebellion. In talking over the events Of tn.
war, Quantrell was spoken Of. The surgeon
stated that he was in Richmond when that
noted guerilla came there for the purpose OF
obtaining commission az colonel, which,
our informant -aid, was fatty refused by the
Confederate War Department, in con -equence
of the character of the warfare 9uantrell
proposed 10 carry ON. He said he had sew
| era conversations with the guerilla chief,
and described to Us his personal appearance,
which Tailed generally with many other ac-
counts we had heard. TIE surgeon then
! went on 10 saw that he afterwards saw him
lying wounded in a Louisville hospital,
where his true character was not known save
to a few interested friends, until after his
death, which occurred soon after, the result
of collision with Union troops in Ken
lucky, where he went after the Lawrence
| massacre. We have no reason to doubt the
| statement Of the old gentleman, and have
always believed it to be true.
Tie Kansas City Times now asserts that
Quantrell died in Louisville, Ky, in 1864,
and says that the men are now living in
Jackson county, Missouri, who attended him
in the hospital.
On the same subject the st. Louis Repub-
iican says:
"a mystery has hung about the move
ments of QuantreIl after his retreat to Texas,
Immediately subsequent to his raid on the
town of Lawrence in Kansas in 1868. The
Times says merely that he became tired of
the war in Missouri, and in 1864 went to
bushwscking east of the Mississippi, making
his way tar up into Kentucky. But from
the various accounts brought home by re-
turning Confederates, it would appear that he
had very good reasons for being tired Of
war in Missouri. The usual fate Of guerilla
chiefs with their own bands pursued him.
Quarrels originating, it was believed, in the
dissatisfaction of some of his followers with
the distribution Of the real or supposed spoils
of Lawrence led his band TO select some
other leaders. Commanders of regular
forces are almost always hostile to partizan
warfare, a. il reacts injuriously on the dis
cipline Of their own troops, complicates
questions of exchange Of prisoners and re
taliation,' and often seriously interferes with
regular military operations. Ii so happened
that Quantrelrs massacre at Lawrence not
only excited general disgust and horror
among rejecting COME ierate-, but COM
pieteiy thwaHed a very daring project oil the
Confederate authorities.
lhe incursion oil ten Shelby INTO Missou- !
ri in the fall of 1868 WAS planned on the in |,
formation, correct al the time, that Missouri |
was almo-; denuded Of available Union |
TROOPS /; and he was expected 10 tie able 10 |
m,;r,.;, h;msal, fnr a, ia.s, fortr;ub, on |
the Missouri river and gather in large |
nunbsr OF recruits before being forced to re- ,
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al HI. oo,,.a5as shn,,,J ,he,, I.,ye and in
their future operations under the black flag
should not in any way claim to he Confed-
crate ,te, troops or ask protection as sIch;
a nd; !, $3.50. - o";'au =, 80 ;,s;sJ
Duan,reIJ b,,I ~ ssak s,me other field of
nper.,ions than Nissouri Unfamiliar with
+ ep,,cLv. he was at 4, disadvantage in ex-
arcisipo his skill IN Guerilla warfare. and
soon fell ini" a,- ;:lr4. a = Union forces.
ending his "'"ir carr i'E 4 death 20 oh,
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and lady Tor some oil the lines specimens Oh
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rePp'n. Inc peaches were ,ra"ioru' anu
one variety the name o: which We do not
know. We are familiar with the fruits OF
the famous Genessee Valley, IN New York,
and never saw at the horticultural exhibi-
lions III that State finer specimens OF fruit
k'ckapoo has made her name famous tins
year by producing the finest gram, vegeta-
bles and iruit in the West.