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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2013 Jan 31 @ 11:00UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT
Startling historic eyewitness accounts of likely the first meeting of Confederate guerillas William Quantrill and "Bloody" Bill Anderson, and events at Lawrence, Kansas as recorded in in-person interviews with one of Quantrill's raiders, William H. Gregg. The first interview is 7pp. legal folio, the second, 4pp. legal folio, Kansas City, July 14, 1910 (and other times close to the same). The interviewer, who signs the first account, was William Elsey Connelley, a prolific writer of western history and a crusader against the Standard Oil Company whose work resulted in the dissolution of the corporation. The first interview is conducted entirely with Gregg, then a "turnkey" at the Kansas City Jail, who opens describing himself as a sickly child, then offering the personal traits of some of his more famous relatives, including CSA Gen. John Gregg and a noted uncle who was a physician or reverend, probably Alexander Gregg, the first Bishop of Texas. Gregg then describes his (and probably Quantrill's) first encounter with William T. "Bloody" Bill Anderson. Gregg was riding with William Quantrill and probably no more than a dozen others, Quantrill having been commissioned a captain in the Confederate army. He relates: "...It was early in 1862 that Quantrill first disarmed Bill Anderson and his men. There were but three or four of them. They had been stealing horses from Missourians. Anderson and his gun men were operating along the Kansas line...Quantrill warned them not to steal anything more where he could get hold of them if they valued their lives. It seems that Anderson did not heed this warning, for late the following fall he was still stealing. He had some fifteen men...Quantrill...sent Captain Gregg to bring him in...Meeting him in the road, Gregg rode by until his men were opposite and parallel...then he halted them...He demanded that Anderson and his men hand over their revolvers. Anderson's men complied...Gregg told them that if any enemy were encountered they would be given their revolvers...When Anderson and his men were brought back before Quantrill they were sternly dealt with...their horses were taken from them...Quantrill told Anderson...if he ever stole again...he would hang him and his men to the first tree that would bear their weight...Quantrill was not a Mason...the statement that people in the Eldridge House were saved during the raid, or on the day Lawrence was sacked, by giving Quantrill Masonic signs is [untrue]...Some signal may have been agreed upon between Quantrill, Robinson and Stevens [at the Red Dog Bank]...". Connelley also interviewed others who crossed paths with Quantrill and Anderson. Meeting with Col. E. F. Rogers (1903), he relates: "...I asked him about the house on Grand Avenue [in Lawrence]which fell down and killed some women and for which Quantrill and his men made an excuse...the house was not undermined. It was poorly built brick house. There was no floor in the lower story...Hogs slept in there...urine had run along the ground and soaked in. This caused the foundation to give way. The women were held as hostage for protection of Union residents...the Union officers [guarding the house] were criminally intimate with some of the women. Some of them had been given permission to go home and refused...Col. Weir...had a skirmish with the rebel forces. Col. Jennison had some 20 men, called Jennison's Scouts [Jayhawkers]...Jennison carried out of Missouri about 1,000 mules...He made a sale of them...The horses...were sold to U.S. Army officers for the use of the U.S. Government...He said Jennison was always doing something like that...". He also interviews Capt. J. M. Turley of the 7th Mo. Cavalry: "...he fought at least a dozen battles and skirmished with Quantrill and his men, and that he invariably defeated the guerillas and scattered them, and often with fewer men...He described the battle of Diamond Grove Prairie where he charged into the brush and scattered the forces of Quantrill...captured a number of prisoners. Turley recognized among them one of the men who had shot his (Turley's) father. He had this man shot at once, also two others...". Historic content!
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