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Friday, March 4, 1977
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Letters recount savagery of Quantrill's raid
By KATHY GANNON Staff Reporter
By KATHY GANNON
On Aug. 23, 1863, Kansas Gov. Thomas Carney, arrogated by William Quantrill's unsuspected and devastating raid on Lawrence two days earlier, wrote to President Abraham Lincoln about the trasevdy.
Carny wrote, "Sir, the State of Kansas is again desolated by the Marauder and from the Missouri border to Lawrence, his track is marked by blood.
"Cities, towns, villages and farms are again inad waste. Millions of property is lost."
"I have just returned from Lawrence where I spent a day. I am satisfied the history of the war will furnish no scene of such savage ferocity."
THIS LETTER AND others written by Carney to Lincoln; Edwin Stanton, U.S. secretary of war; and Maj. Gen. Schofield, the U.S. army commander in St. Louis, Mo., will receive a certificate this semester to the Kansas Collection in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
Carnery was outraged by the pilage and massacre of Lawrence. Quantrill and his gang of proslavery outlaws had fled four hours of burning, looting and murder, leaving about 180 children, 185 injured buildings and $2 million in damages.
"I need not tell you how anxiously I have
CARNEY APPEALED to Lincoln for troops and arms to prevent more such attacks.
Swimming pool application okayed by commissioners
Construction of a $500,000 indoor swimming pool facility for Douglas County could begin as early as summer is an application for the project is accepted for federal funding, county commissioners learned at a meeting yesterday.
Ernest Coleman, county federal funds consultant, told commissioners that the facility would be totally federally funded and would be adjacent to the new gymnasium on the Lawrence High School grounds at 19th and Louisiana streets.
The commission yesterday committed $3,000 in community development block grant funds for development of a final application for the facility. Coleman and Ford Bohl, an Ola the engineer, will plan and submit the application.
The final application for federal Public Works-Economic Development Administration funds will be submitted to the legislature in Denver, according to Coleman. The funds were
"We'll have to submit this application within the next two months to have a chance at it," said Bertolini.
The county commission approved the orders for the pool application at the urging of the mayor.
In other action, the commission lifted a moratorium it had placed on development of residences on private roads in the county. A request to lift the ban came from Dick McClanathan, director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
The moratorium was lifted only for single residences served by single access roads. All developments of this kind will now be owned by the county commission and planning commission.
pressed upon you both in letter and in person the nearness of these perils and the necessity of taking immediate steps to prevent them," Carney wrote.
"I did not succeed. The government did not realize the extent of these dangers and refused me the privilege of raising a regiment for home protection."
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Earlier in 1863, Carney had organized a border patrol to protect the state against invasion. The patrol was dissolved under orders from the commander of the Union with assurances that regular federal troops could protect the state.
THREE DAYS after Carney's patrol was disbanded, Quantrill raided Lawrence.
G, W. Bell, county clerk in 1883, wanted to fight Quantrill and his gang when they inquired
Since the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, Lawrence citizens had become accustomed to attack rumors. The victims of a raid May 21, 1856, abolitionist citizens of Lawrence were often threatened by proslavery outlaws.
Bell later was killed on the main street of Lawrence by one of Quanillh's rebels.
"They may kill me, but they cannot kill the principles I fight for," he told his wife and six children. "If they take Lawrence, they must do it over my dead body."
**QUANTRILL AND' his men invaded Kansas from the slave state of Missouri. In March 1984, he and Quantrill's camp learned that he planned to raid Lawrence around Aug. 1. The town prepared to defend itself, but Quantrill and Robert Wilson, Aug. 21, the city's defenses were lax again.
Quantill's orders were to burn every house and kill every man, but to spark the fire.
the raiders entered Lawrence about 5 a.m. by Franklin Road, now 19th Street. They went down Haskell Avenue and on to Walnut Street in Damens. Then they scattered over the town.
THE DISPERSED squads of raiders each carried a list of Lawrence abolitionists to the election.
Lawrence was overcome within minutes, with no possibility of rallying. The town's weapons were stored in an armory, which the raiders guarded.
Judge Carpenter suffered one of the most brutal murders of the raid.
D. W. PALMER, a gunmuth, was
seven years old when the rebels
thrown into the looms of the house.
Witnesses described the rebelas as "hundreds of bearded, long-haired, wild-looking men, in slouch hats and greasy, shouting men, in scatting hating, shouting, ruding with碌碌 skill."
Carpenter's wife threw herself over his body, but a raider lifted her arm and shot him.
The raiders chased him through his house to his backyard while shooting at him. Seriously wounded, he collapsed outside nis house and a rebel shot and killed him.
Levi Gates, who lived about a mile from Lawrence, rode into town with his gun when he heard the firing. When he arrived, he shot a raider but didn't kill him. The raiders shot and killed him and then crushed his head with their revolvers.
DURING MOST OF the burning and killing, Quantrill ate breakfast at the Eldridge House, which had surrendered early in the raid.
At about 9 a.m. the massacre ended as some of Quantrill's men reported that federal troops were approaching the town. Quantrill continued hits, attacks that toward the Union until he was killed by federal troops in Kentucky in 1889 at the age of 27.
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