Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-13
A FAMOUS GUERILLA.

Tho Reported Death OF tho Noted Out
law Contradicted by One Who Knew
Him-An Incident of His wild Career.
1t was recently reported that the IA
nous guerilla Quantrell had died in
Birmingham, Ala, under an assumed
name. This caused great deal of talk
about the man whose name twenty-five
years ago was as often in peoples
mouths as that OF Lee or Lincoln, at the
mention of whose name every house,
holder north of Mason and Dixon's line
trembled, and whose daring raids made
the plan of plundering, burning Wash
ington, New York, Philadelphia and
Boston by sudden inroad seem prac'
ticable and possible. The papers of late
stories of his life and incidents Of his
desperately romantic career.
The story of his death in birmingham
was received with a great deal of in
credulity. A great many refuse to be-
lieve that the man who died in Birming
ham of overindulgence in liquor wa,
Quantrell at all. The old story OF his
being shot in the back while making his
last raid in Kentucky when his band
was finally broken up and wiped out
was revived. 1t was published in the
Iowa State Register.
That Captain T. ]. Kennedy, Of Der
Moines, was acquainted with Quantrel
before the war was told the Register
reporter and he went to see the Captain
"Yes, knew Quantrell, the guerilla
in Ossawattomie, Kan, before the war.
He was teaching school there and he
boarded at my uncle's house. My uncle's
name was Daniel Goodrich. He moved
to Kansas in 1858 and he was strong
Republican and Union man. He had
been driven out of that country three oi
four times in the fuses between the
bushwhac1ers and jayhawkers
We'll, he had come back every tims
and in 1859, think it was, Quantrell
was teaching school there and he board
ed at my uncle's house and my cousins
went to school to him. 1 went down
there to make my uncle's family visit
and that way l got acquainted with
Quantrell
HE had already been in some fusses
with the jayhawlrers and hated them
like poison. don't exactly remember
the start of the trouble. It seems to mt
that they had killed horse or whipped
him or some thing like that. But he
WASH known yet as leading bush
whacher, and if he had been in any raids
the people round there didn't know
about it.
He thought lots of my uncle and mH
cousins and they thought lots of him
that fall 1 think it was after had left
there was talk about more trouble on
the Kansas border. My uncle was talk.
ing to Quantrell about it and he told him
that he was tired of fighting and killing
and having his barns burned and his
stock run Off and that he had made uI
his mind to GO back to Indiana. Guam
trell told him that he needn't do that
He says: You and your boys have treat
ed me right and / feel kind towards
you, and If you stay here I'll guarantee
that there won't be rah of your fences
touched, no matter what happens No
very long after Quantrell got together
his band and made the famous raid OF
Lawrence, where he came very near get
ting Jim Lane the man he wanted t,
kill worse than any body. Well, wheI
he returned he came right in back of m,
] |
and sure enough, although the who'll
band of cut-throats staid there al
night and camped, they didn't touch
thing on my uncle's place. They wer
so hard pressed that they dropped $50
or S4OO worth of stuff they had carried
| off from Lawrence right here.
"Yes, 1 saw the article about Quan
trells being killed in Kentucky whe
his band was cut up finally. That ism
r so ouantrell got out of that scrape a
he did out of every other and got ava
, at the close of the war to Cuba ii
staid at Havana, and he got together
band to capture treasure ship that wa
expected there. His plan was to enlis
n with his men on schooner, to mutinJ
and with the schooner to capture tn
: vessel. But some body gave the schem
away and the Cuban authorities got a
/ ter QuantrelL He escaped, and that
= the last that has been heard Of him"