Quantrill in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill in Texas write by Paul R. Petersen. This book was released on 2007. Quantrill in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Details Quantrill's forays into North Texas during the Civil War.
Quantrill's Raiders in Texas
Quantrill's Raiders in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill's Raiders in Texas write by Evault Boswell. This book was released on 2003. Quantrill's Raiders in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the fall of 1863, William Clarke Quantrill, the Missouri bushwhacker, took about three hundred of his followers across Indian Territory to Sherman, Texas. In the Lone Star State, the bushwhackers made camp at Mineral Creek. Henry McCulloch, the Confederate commander of the District of Northeast Texas, tried to find a use for the pseudo-rebels, but they failed in rounding up deserters, chasing Indians, and destroying moonshiners. They did manage to ravage the city of Sherman, getting drunk and shooting the tassels off the hat of Grayson County's leading lady, Sophia Butts. They also robbed and killed citizens, including Sophia's husband. Then they began to fight among themselves until Quantrill's command splintered. Texas seemed little changed in the guerrillas' wake, but the atrocities they committed after returning north show that their time near Sherman changed them decisively.
Quantrill and the Border Wars
Quantrill and the Border Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill and the Border Wars write by William Elsey Connelley. This book was released on 1909. Quantrill and the Border Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quantrill of Missouri
Quantrill of Missouri - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantrill of Missouri write by Paul R. Petersen. This book was released on 2003. Quantrill of Missouri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as the devil incarnate, and most historical accounts portray him as a sadistic, pitiless, bloodthirsty killer. That image, however, did not ring true to Paul R. Petersen when he weighed it against the man's wartime accomplishments. When he began researching Quantrill of Missouri, he found that much of the lore that has been accepted as fact had been recorded by those who fought against Quantrill. In short, the victors wrote the history. Petersen asks, "How could this so-called fiend have been a respected schoolteacher? How could he have organized and led up to four hundred men in the most noted band of guerrilla fighters known to history? How could he be so hated by his own men and still lead them in the most renowned battles through Missouri, winning victories over superior Union forces? Others entrusted their sons to him. Others served him as spies. Women willingly tended his wounded, and his followers even guarded him in battle. Most of his people were God-fearing farmers...God-fearing, righteous people would not have followed a depraved, degenerate, psychotic killer."
The Midnight Assassin
The Midnight Assassin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Midnight Assassin write by Skip Hollandsworth. This book was released on 2016-04-05. The Midnight Assassin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
