, 1890-07-03
QUANTRELL'S RAID.
A Bloody Chapter in the
Wars History.
THE MASSACRE AT LAWRENCE
Story OF the Awful Tragedy Re-
lated by One OF the Par
tioipants.

II was In the rotunda OF the Kim
ball, says the Atlanta Constitution
It's u great place for meeting ur
with all sorts and conditions Of men,
and often long-lost friends meet and
recognize each other under It's COO
arcade.
II Is the Rialto of Atlanta.
Peculiar incidents happen there
also; scenes lost to ell save the eye
of the keenest observer.
One of these Incidents happened
not long ago, and out of 1t grew this
story Of d,shing bravery, of fire, ol
blood and battle. Its chief actor
was n man whose name is world
known. Partisan to the core, he
was n second Dundee; he was type
Of Rupert. He was sever 50 happy
as when In the saddle, never so cool
as when charging line OF hostile
bayonets.
But let one of the men who fol-
lowed Quanirell in that famous
"Raid OH Lawrence" tell the story
the story as / took IL down from
his own lips. His name Is neither
here nor there; he was simply one
of the $50 of the splcndidly armed
and mounted young men, who were
inspired with the spirit of their
daredevil leader as Murats troopers
rode into the volcano of Austrian
fire at Nustsrlitz or Friedland.
lie is now "a drummer and was
delegate to the recent convention
here--but when | heard this tale of
"derring-do" fall from his lips In an
easy, CONGREGATIONAL tone, and when
1 glanced at his mild, ruddy face l
could not help con trasting him with
what he had done, and say OF him
that he was:
"As mild.natured a man as ever
cut IA throat or scuttled ship" l
was standing near the cigar lighter
at the news stand when a gentle
man clad In superb taste ap-
preached at the same moment, and
yielded me the preference with a
grace ul wave of his hand. ! soon
liz my cigar and fell to watching
i'm as he performed a similar act on
his own behalf.
our eyes then met, and though no
word was spoken, we each We're pos
tive that there had been a mutual
remembrance or personality, though
locality and time were wanting to
complete q renewal of an acquaint-
ance that had existed years ago.
He turned half aside and 1 was
giving up the subject In despair
when he suddenly turned and cried;
"We've met before?'
"Yes, I'm sure of it,"
"And where aud when?"
"That's what I'm trying to make
out.p
"I can do 1t for you" he cried
with burst of rolling laughter, and
then
And then / saw 1t all. We had
met many years before in Kansas
City, from which city he was then
travelling for IA well-known house.
We rehearsed "Lang Syue," and
/ suddenly made the remark:
"Sou have never given me the
true story about the burningef Law
renee, the redemption OF which
promise demand now"
a shade of pain crossed his jolly
face, but presently looking, he
laughed and said;
"1'hats barred by the statue OF
limitations.
"On the contrary, the bond bears
| heavy interest, and | Will have the
whole story right here and now"
"Well,n he began quietly, you
or may not remember that on the
forenoon Of the day gave you that
promise ! had been In Lawrence for
/ The first time since that awful morn.
ing in the fall Of 1853, and the sight
of the place, though vastly i'm
proved, reminded me unplcasantly
Or that dies irae when Quantrell
drew bloody cash under the col
umus of Hatred and Revenge and
found the total In his favor.
"rhat was horrible war out there
in Missouri and Kansas. 1t was
truly an intornecine war--a war
about which the people here knew
little about. No, not even when
Sherman drove the plough of pill
lage over your fairest field, and
soWCd your cities in salt. There
neighhor was against neighbor; no
one was trusted; treachery lurked
like fever mist In the air, and trat-
ricidal blood stained red the soil of
every border county.
81 was only l54 years when along
with an elder brother, who died,
poor fellow, at Pea Ridge. Joined
Il company which Quantreli was
then forming, lie held regular
commission I'm the confederate army,
but from the first he preferred the
hard-rding. hard fighting life which
had such charms for him. He was
a Murylandcr 10y birth. and WAS Il
man Of extraordinary characteristics
beyond his singular steel-gray eyes.
They were the most wonderful |
ever saw In mans head, and when
you looked into them your reason
was gone, you We're stupeiied. In
these days We would call II hyp-
notism. Among us the boys unani-
mously agreed In the words of ser
geant Ieb Pike "That he couldn L
count fer II noway lessomever 1t be
the horned devil In him" He could
have had women at his feet by the
score, for he was handsome and
wondrou-ly strong, as plenty of
other men are, but he never deicncd
them passing, though always
courteous aud low-voiced at all
times, lie seemed to love waf, and
war only, and once, after a fierce
charge in which We had routed or