Quantrill, William Clarke

Life Span
to
Full name
William Clarke Quantrill
Place of Birth
Dover, OH
Burial Place
Dover, OH
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Free State
Family
Thomas Henry Quantrill (father), Caroline Cornelia Clarke (mother), Sarah Catherine King (wife) 
Occupation
Military
Other
Other Occupation
Criminal
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
Confederate Army
Date Event
In Lawrence, Kansas, Confederate guerrillas destroy the town and murder hundreds of residents
In Kentucky, notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill is wounded and captured
In a Louisville, Kentucky prison, notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill dies of wounds
Bleeding Kansas
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