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www.digitallyobsessed.com - : Perhaps the most savage fighting unit in the entire U.S. Civil War, William Quantrill and his ''Quantrill's Raiders'' were a guerilla cavalry band that operated along the Kansas-Missouri border. Master of the lightning raid, Quantrill and his men would dash into enemy territory, pillaging and killing and terrorizing Union soldiers and civilians alike. Quantrill was eventually killed on a raid into Kentucky in 1865, but his legacy would live on after the War Between the States had ended. In the brutal era of Reconstruction that followed the war, Confederate-friendly Missourians were expected to swallow their pride as Union money and influence led a peaceful invasion of their homeland. Relying on skills perfected while serving until Quantrill, men like Jesse and Frank James and Cole and Jim Younger, along with others, turned to a life of crime, robbing the Union-backed banks and trains that found their way into Missouri. more...
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