107 returned to Missouri. Placing himself under the banner^of Gov. Price, he was given the command of one hundred desperadoes including the notorious James and Younger brothers. With this band he pillaged and burned townsand “reddened the prairies of Kansas with the blood of defenseless women and children until the world shuddered.” Revisited Richmond, and it is believed he was com missioned a colonel in the Confederate service. At least he assumed that title. Charles F. Taylor, of Joplin, Mo., for some time Quantrill’s Lieutenant, says of him: “Quan- trill was humane and kind, as some can testify at Law’rence, wThere he saved a great many. Kansas was the state he preferred to fight in. He was not half strict enough with his men. His success lay in his men, who were all made desperate by one cause or another, and who were always anxious to fight. He was of a jealous disposition, and frequently had trouble with his officers, a number of whom left him and became ‘operators’ on their own account. He would occasionally divide his band and send small squads off in all directions, directing those in command to strike in the name of Quantrill, and thus it
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