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Quantrill's Raiders were Confederate guerrillas who followed and fought under William Clark Quantrill.Quantrill, an Ohio schoolteacher who relocated to Kansas, transformed himself into a militant murderer of abolitionists.
Some people view Quantrill and his men as avengers, paying back Union brutalities in kind. Others believe that they were cold-blooded killers. They targeted Union troops and civilian Union sympathizers alike.
Driven by their pro-slavery beliefs, they committed unprecedented atrocities—climaxing in the killing of 200 unarmed men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas, an event known as the Lawrence Massacre.
American Civil War
Terrorist organizations based in the United States
