William Quantrill is Missouri's most infamous guerrilla leader during the Civil War era. Throughout his career as a leader of a group of Bushwackers, he led other great guerillas like William T. Anderson, mostly known as Bloody Bill and the infamous Jesse James.Originally from Ohio, Quantrill made his home in northern Missouri. His early family background and where he was raised in Ohio led him to have pro-Union beliefs. After some time spent in Missouri in the Missouri-Kansas Border Wars, his beliefs began to change. Although Williams Quantrill's outlook prior to the Civil War was pro-Union, his experiences eventually changed his views to become pro-slavery leading him to begin his own group of Guerrillas and fight against the North.
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Williams mother, Caroline Cornelia Clark, without enough money to keep her house standing with all of the children, she turned it into a boarding school. William tried to help his mother by becoming a school teacher there but it ended up not being enough for him so he left the following year. Throughout these next years he traveled to many places, forging many friendships, some for his own gain. While on this expedition he met many Pro-Slavery people who helped influence his opinions on the soon to be Union. In 1858 in Utah he signed up with a U.S. Army out-post. During which he changed his name to Charles Hart, and began to exceed at the game of poker, challenging his friends in the Fort. Throughout this time his murderous tendencies rose with killings and thefts happening all over the Fort Bridger. While under an arrest warrant for the murders he fled once more into Kansas. While going to Kansas he joined up with anti-slavery group but it was only a whole ruse just to help stop them from the inside. He also did this for money freeing slaves across Kansas. Even with all this he only disclosed to his mother that he was contempt with the murders inside of the group's leaders like John Brown. But his sinister intents do not end there, in December 1860, his group led a troop to go rescue the slaves of Morgan Walker. During the walk there he acted and informed Walker of the rescue, and but surprising the group with an …show more content…
This group believed in making Kansas a free state and liberating the slaves of Missouri trying to make a difference in Missouri's stand on slavery. But at this point William Clarke Quantrill has already had his pro-Union mind tempered by pro-slavery beliefs. Now this allegiance with the Kansas Free-State Men was just a ruse to cause any destruction he could to the pro-Union believers from the inside out. With this easy grip he had over this group, while they were off to liberate some slaves from a major slave owner Morgan Walker, Quantrill decided to be the one to “scout the area”. What this meant was while he was “scouting” he was actually informing Morgan about the oncoming attack on his land so he planned an attack with Walker. While he was returning with Walker they both ambushed the four Kansas men killing three of the four. But this was not the end, just four months later in April of 1861 the Civil War finally broke out and almost instantly Quantrill joined the Confederates, with what looked like at the time enthusiasm. The first major battle he fought was at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. But being just a lowly soldier he did not play a very big role in the battle. Although later into the year Quantrill wanted to completely destroy the Union, but he did not like how slow the Confederacy was taking to take huge action. So as a result of this choice, he
William …show more content…
Williams mother, Caroline Cornelia Clark, without enough money to keep her house standing with all of the children, she turned it into a boarding school. William tried to help his mother by becoming a school teacher there but it ended up not being enough for him so he left the following year. Throughout these next years he traveled to many places, forging many friendships, some for his own gain. While on this expedition he met many Pro-Slavery people who helped influence his opinions on the soon to be Union. In 1858 in Utah he signed up with a U.S. Army out-post. During which he changed his name to Charles Hart, and began to exceed at the game of poker, challenging his friends in the Fort. Throughout this time his murderous tendencies rose with killings and thefts happening all over the Fort Bridger. While under an arrest warrant for the murders he fled once more into Kansas. While going to Kansas he joined up with anti-slavery group but it was only a whole ruse just to help stop them from the inside. He also did this for money freeing slaves across Kansas. Even with all this he only disclosed to his mother that he was contempt with the murders inside of the group's leaders like John Brown. But his sinister intents do not end there, in December 1860, his group led a troop to go rescue the slaves of Morgan Walker. During the walk there he acted and informed Walker of the rescue, and but surprising the group with an …show more content…
This group believed in making Kansas a free state and liberating the slaves of Missouri trying to make a difference in Missouri's stand on slavery. But at this point William Clarke Quantrill has already had his pro-Union mind tempered by pro-slavery beliefs. Now this allegiance with the Kansas Free-State Men was just a ruse to cause any destruction he could to the pro-Union believers from the inside out. With this easy grip he had over this group, while they were off to liberate some slaves from a major slave owner Morgan Walker, Quantrill decided to be the one to “scout the area”. What this meant was while he was “scouting” he was actually informing Morgan about the oncoming attack on his land so he planned an attack with Walker. While he was returning with Walker they both ambushed the four Kansas men killing three of the four. But this was not the end, just four months later in April of 1861 the Civil War finally broke out and almost instantly Quantrill joined the Confederates, with what looked like at the time enthusiasm. The first major battle he fought was at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. But being just a lowly soldier he did not play a very big role in the battle. Although later into the year Quantrill wanted to completely destroy the Union, but he did not like how slow the Confederacy was taking to take huge action. So as a result of this choice, he