The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-12
Ouantrell's End.

X ansas City Times two weeks
, 90, q paragraph describing that ..
noted guerilla as still living Is :;
roin" the rounds of the press. .
The curiosity felt concerning ms =
ultimate fate, and the attempts ,
made to personate him, remarka-
bly, illustrate the attraction OF
mystery, and the morbid admifa-
t ion felt by some coarse natures
to usrrp notoriety for deeds of
bleod. Soon after the close OF
our civil war. as the Times relates,
some advSent,,rer was bold enough
to go into the very midst OF the
Confederate colonists ut Vera
Cruz, and claim TO be Quantrell
but too many of them were we'll
acquainted with the gtleritia's fea-
lures and the imposture was soon
exposed. Some of these cotonists
removed to Honduras and there
they heard that Quantrell had
preceded them on Inspection,
this second impostor turned out
to be Il swarthy New Orleans
creole, who could scarcely speak
English. The latest revival OF
Quantreil is in the shape OF an
account by two ditterent" "rellable'
gentlemen, that they met him in
1868 at Fort Lyon, New Mexico,
and conversed with him about his
exploits in the war, and his raid
into Kansas in 1868. But. how
ever vigorous these sham Guam
rells may be, the real one is very
etfectualiy buried by the Kansas
CitH Times. 1t says that two
men who attended him in his last
lmon. l1llse...s..rs, am, saw him buried,
now reside in Jackson county, in
this State. Their statement is
that he was mortally wounded in
a fight with federal troops in Ken
) lucky in 1864, and taken under
an assumed name to q hospital in
Louisville, where he died. Dis
, guised as civilians, those faithful
followers attended on him in the
: hospital and to the grave.
: 4 mystery has hung about the
: movements of Qnantrell after his
:. retreat to Texas, Immediately sub
g seuuent to his raid on the town
of Lawrence in Kansas in 1868
| lIt' lII1t-S SatN '''St IN
4 "became tired Of the war in Mis-
$ souri, and in 1864 went to bush
u whacking east Of the Mississippi
# making his way far up into Ken
s tucky. But from the various &c
\ counts brought home by return
q inc cOntederatcS, it would appea
y that he had very good reasons TO
J, being "tired' of war i'm Missouri
II The usual fate of guerilla chief!
V with their own bands pursued
4 him. Quarrels Originating, it was
II believed, in the dissatisfaction OF
Il some Of his followers with tho
h dist ributiOn of the real or sup
S posed spoils of Lawrence, led his
s band to select some other leaders
y Commanders of ..regular forces
t are almost always hostile to par
:, tis:n warfare, as it reacts inju,
4 riously on the discipline of theil
G own troops, complicates questions
e of exchange of prisoners and "rc
taliation," and often seriously in
; tcrferes with regular military op
,i crations. 1t SO happened tina
II Quantrell:s massacre at Lawrence
< not only excited general DISCUS
" and horror among rejecting Con
t. federates, but completely thwart
mt ed :, very daring project of tn
IL Confederate authorities. The il,
I; cursion of Gen. Shelby into Mis-
l. souri, in the fall OF 1868 wa
to planned on the information, co
", rect at the time, that Nilsson
s. was almost denudcd of availabl
Is Union troops; and he was eXpec
is ed to be able to maintain himSc
re for at least 4 fortnight on II
IL Missouri river and gather in
of large number Of recruits bcfO
IT, being forced to return. III
Il Lawrence outrage occaSioncd
formidable force to pursue Qua,
trell, and Shelby, unexpected
,h finding himself in the very jaw
n of it, was forced to retreat wit
v; out accomplishing all he II;
ed aimed at. When 9uantrcll g
IL within the Confederate lines,
lis consequently found himself II
lis very welcome to the authOriti6
d. and they consented to his renal
~ ing in Texas with his band t
rr- ''frst grass" Of the next sprin
to only on condition that he and Il
~ comrades should then leave, al
ws i'm their future operations und
the black flag should not in al
way claim to be COnfcndera
,s: troops, or ask protection as sue