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Devil Knows How to Ride : The True Story of William Clark Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders by Edward E. Leslie (1996, Hardcover)

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100679424555

ISBN-139780679424550

eBay Product ID (ePID)1998156

Product Key Features

Book TitleDevil Knows How to Ride : the True Story of William Clark Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General

Publication Year1996

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorEdward E. Leslie

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight32.5 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width7.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-007321

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal973.7/48

SynopsisBrilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837¿1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account ever written of the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre (the greatest atrocity of the Civil War), when Quantrill and 450 raiders torched the Unionist town and executed roughly 200 unarmed, unresisting men and teenage boys. It also details the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with him¿Frank and Jesse James, and Cole Younger. No other history so fully penetrates the myth of a cardboard-cutout psychopath to expose Quantrill in all his brutality and human complexity.

LC Classification NumberE470.45.Q3L47 1996