THE DEVIL KNOWS HOW TO RIDE. The True Story of Wiliam Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders
Language: English
Published by Random House, New York, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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1st edition, 1996. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 534 pp., bound in publishers brown cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Jacket rubbed at tips, edges and top/base of spine with small loss at tips. Text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.
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- Title
- THE DEVIL KNOWS HOW TO RIDE. The True Story of Wiliam Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders
- Author
- Leslie, Edward E.
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679424555
- ISBN 13
- 9780679424550
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography, History
While Quantrill fought dozens of skirmishes and battles, the peak of his career came on August 21, 1863, when he led 450 men in a dawn raid on the staunchly Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas. During the next four hours, Quantrill's followers killed approximately two hundred men and teenaged boys - nearly all of them unarmed and unresisting - and burned the entire business district and over one hundred houses, resulting in damages totaling $1.5 million in Civil War dollars. The Lawrence massacre is still considered by historians to be the greatest atrocity of the Civil War.
The Devil Knows How to Ride contains the most accurate and complete account of the Lawrence massacre ever written, as well as of the Centralia massacre, which was perpetrated by some of Quantrill's followers and in which Jesse and Frank James took conspicuous part. It sheds new light on the cause of the collapse of the Grand Avenue building, one of the great tragedies of the Civil War in the West, in which a number of girls who were relatives of Quantrill's followers were killed or seriously injured. Here, too, is the true story - told for the first time - of the blood-drenched last years and pathetic death of Edwin Terrell, the Yankee guerrilla and outlaw who captured Quantrill. The outlaw careers and later lives of the Jameses and Cole Younger are set forth in vivid detail. Leslie's groundbreaking research has enabled him to tell the story of Sue Mundy, the legendary "wild girl guerrilla of Kentucky," with whom Quantrill rode in 1865, and the bizarre, sometimes quite comic history of Quantrill's bones, which were stolen from his grave by his boyhood best friend and then bartered, sold, used in fraternity initiation rituals, and displayed in glass museum cases, and which have come to be buried in three graves in three different states.
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