The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-10
QUANTRELL'S COMRADE
New York Man Claims to Have
Been Same.

Frank H. Brooks tells in the New York
Herald the following interview:
Yes, read the story from Kansas
about the finding of couple of bones,
said to be the thigh bones of Quantrell
the famous guerilla leader of the border
and the gift OF them to the Kansas state
Historical Society" said a man in New
York, who was with Quantrell in the
Lawrence or Hell raid as Quantrelrs
men shouted when they started for Law
renee, August L, 1868, under black flag
Only two men in New York know the war
record of the man quoted. He has been
living here, engaged iw business, for
twelve years.
What do L think of the story?' he
asked. You will notice that they didn't
tell it until after Quantrells old mother
died a few days ago. The story says Mrs.
QuantrellS death removed the restriction
of secrecy--the secret being that Mrs.
Quantrell knew that two of the bones of
her son We're exhumed in Kentucky
long time ago, Mrs. QuantreIl being pres
ent. and that with her knowledge and
consent they were sent back to Kansas.
THAT story will not do. Quantrell's ret
lNcHCt, Sli6LCC quiet mariner were IN
herited from his mother She lived
through all of his trials kept in communi-
cation with him when he was being hunt
ed like an animal, and knew often just
where he was when no one else did. She
knew when he left Missouri, after the
Lawrence raid; she knew that he crossed
into Arkansas, went to the house of i
Maj or Boswell. a confederate secret SER
vice man who lived just above Memphis.
and who ferried Quantrell and a few of
his followers across the Mississippi river
TO the Tennessee shore, while 81 Yankee
gunboat lay within pistol shot distance.
That was on the first day OF January,
1865. Quantrell and the men who stayed
with him marched, after they were land
ed, into Kentucky. l know that soon af-
ter that he met his mother. | did not
know it at the time, but learned it from
Mrs. Quantrell herself after her sons
death, that to her and to her alone had he
revealed his plans. He told her that he
proposed to go TO Maryland and from
that state conduct operations in Pennsyl-
vania as he had done on the border. He
believed. even at that late day, that IL
guerilla tactics were employed in the east
as ilitA IldO HCtti AZ liit NCSl Tic tue
might turn. He was wrong. of course.
Only a miracle could have turned the tide
at that stage. But it was always Guam
trelrs idea TO strike terror into the north
If his plan had been adopted when he pro-
posed it. in the second year OF the war.
to President Davis, the result-weil, the
war would have been prolonged l must
not say any more.
He didn't reach Maryland. When he
went into Kentucky he found federals in
the woods They were as thick as leaves.
He fought at times d dozen times day
and kept ii UP in the night. II there ever
was a hunted man it was Cuantrell. in
Kentucky He did not know the hog paths
as he knew the haunts of the Kansas
coyotes IN his Kentucky chase his old
mother frequently knew of his privatiOns
and sufferings for he was bullet marked
before he crossed the Mississippi river.
Do you suppose that any mother. and es-
pecially the mother of Quantrell. who fol-
lowed his course as long as he lived,
would have ever consented TO the taking
apart OF the bones Of his body2 And #
such thing could have been done with
her consent do you suppose she would
SA-tf---a~~A NA-A e@A++ L1taN "a %A-S 49,
should be given TO the state Of Kansas &c
be placed OF exhibitions state which her
son had sworn to lay desolate II ne could
accomplish i. 4 state which taught its
children 10 abho- his nance
"On July IS. lse5. Quantreil and eleven
OF his men had been run to cover in a
harm. and he was psralyzed b. bullets. \
few OF his comrades, bleeding and shat
tered, stayed by him and finally carried
him to a house. where he told them
goo6-by.
General John 81. Palmer. then IN CON-
msna of Kentucky. heard OF ouautrell be
ing in the house where he was left and
sent an ambulance, accompanied by a
guard and had the Old guerilla removed
to the military hospital in Louisville lie
fingered only little while, and his eyes
were closed by q sister ot Charity who
had narsed hirI, for before Re died he &C
copted the Catholic faith. lie WAS buried
in sl,e Ca,hodc cemetery n Louisville. Eis
mother was present ~ ihst service
The seven mea who were with CASA
trsil when he was IN his fight u the
death were VIII Eusse. Lee gcMurty. =.
:. &aupin. Fletcher Taylor. cisrk Hack
ensuith. Arch Clements and jim Younger
~ TIE Younger boys Their pictures we're
taken after the Lsurercc MASSAGE ard
arc IN ny possession