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1stedn sm8vo Burgundy-colored cloth with a gilt image of Quantrell and the title on the front cover; very clean and tight, appears unread, VG/ndj: 266pp; 2 illustrated frontis of Quantrell and Trow, 8 other full-page illustrations. The author convinced Captain Trow to tell his story after 20 years of badgering him to do so. He writes in the Introduction: This narrative was written just as he told it to me, giving accounts of fights that he participated in, narrow escapes experienced, dilemmas it seemed almost impossible to get out of, and also other battles; the life of the James boys and Youngers as they were with Quantrell during the war, and after the war, when they became outlaws by publicity of the daily newspapers, being accused of things which they never did and which were laid at their feet. Captain Trow identified Jesse James when the latter was killed at St. Joseph. He also was the last man to surrender in the State of Missouri. In a PS on p 266, Trow states that during the World War, I could take these 350 men and go to Berlin in a gallup, for history does not now and never will know the power there was in the Quantrell band. William Clarke Quantrill. Concludes with a chapter about Frank and Jesse James and the Youngers after the war. P31 Trow joins band at hanging of Old Man Searcy in Jackson Cty; sketches of band members; 35 battle of chas younger farm 3mi from Independence MO 10nov1864; / wiki: In a bid to put down the Missouri guerrilla raiders operating in Kansas, General Thomas Ewing, Jr. issued in April 1863 "General Order No. 10," which ordered the arrest of anyone giving aid or comfort to Confederate guerrillas. This meant chiefly women or girls who were relatives of the guerrillas. Ewing confined those arrested in a makeshift prison in Kansas City. At least ten women or girls, all under the age of 20, were incarcerated in the building when it collapsed on August 13, 1863, killing four, among them Josephine Anderson, the 15-year-old sister of William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Survivors included Jenny Anderson, Bill Anderson's 13-year-old sister, who was shackled to a ball-and-chain inside the jail and suffered multiple injuries. The arrest and deportation of the girls had enraged Quantrill's guerrillas; George Todd left a note for General Ewing threatening to burn Kansas City unless the girls were freed. While Quantrill's raid on Lawrence was planned before the collapse of the jail, the deaths of the guerrillas' female relatives undoubtedly added to their thirst for revenge and blood lust during the raid: The universal testimony of all the ladies and others who talked with the butchers of the 21st ult. is that these.
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