Three Years with Quantrill A True Story Told By His Scout eBook John McCorkle O S Barton
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John McCorkle was a scout for the notorious William Quantrill, a man whose group of brigands spent their time kidnapping runaway slaves in exchange for reward money in the years before the civil war.
McCorkle served briefly in the Missouri State Guard before being captured, swearing an oath of allegiance to the Unionists, and soon after breaking it to join Quantrill’s men.
Fighting along the Missouri-Kansas borderland, preying on Unionist sympathisers, this account provides insight into a western theatre of a very different nature than the usual accounts following the exploits of Ulysses S. Grant and his army.
McCorkle attempts to rehabilitate the memory of Quantrill, who he greatly respected, and the actions of the confederate guerrillas more generally.
He was at pains to show how federal atrocities led him into this fight and how, by contrast, the confederates operated within a framework of decency and morality.
Quantrill was best known for the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, in which over 180 civilians were killed.
McCorkle recounts this raid and places the blame for it firmly on the federal forces, who provoked retaliation through their murder of a number of women related to the guerrillas.
A strict prohibition against the murder of women and children was followed by Quantrill’s bushwhackers at all times and McCorkle recounts numerous incidents where Quantrill punished those who made life a misery for the region’s inhabitants, irrespective of their political allegiance.
Nonetheless, McCorkle does not attempt to hide the often brutal and vicious nature of the guerrillas. What emerges is a memoir that shows the bleak realities of war and challenges the heroic narratives of the war that were emerging from the Unionist side.
This is the enlightening civil war memoir of John S. McCorkle, a confederate guerrilla operating in the Missouri area. With the help of his friend O.S. Barton, he finally committed his reminiscences on the civil war to paper first in 1914.
John S. McCorkle (1838-1918) was a Missouri farmer who fought for the Confederates under Colonel William Quantrill during the American Civil War. At the outbreak of war he joined the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard. In August 1862 he joined Quantrill’s guerrillas. McCorkle fought at the battles of Baxter Springs, Centralia and Fayette, amongst others, and was present at the raid on Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. He followed Quantrill into Kentucky in 1865 but he was absent for the final battle when Quantrill was killed. When the war ended, he returned to farming in Howard County, Missouri.
Oswald Swinney Barton (1862-1925) was a lawyer and writer for John McCorkle. In 1914, McCorkle dictated his story to Barton who wrote down his account in Three Years With Quantrill.
Three Years with Quantrill A True Story Told By His Scout eBook John McCorkle O S Barton
Enjoyed the "front row" seat reading this. Throughout my life I've seen the oft dramatized notorious side to the adventures of Quantrill, the James Bros., Youngers, etc. as portrayed in the many TV shows and movies, where they often take extraordinary artistic license that " loosely" interpret the role these men played in fighting for a noble but lost cause. They were certainly no angels, but Americans have always had to resort to brutal and aggressive guerrilla type warfare when fighting a much larger, better equipped invading army. In its narrative you're riding right along with these men as they fight a guerrilla war against the invading Union army and their opportunistic Red Leg raiders who preyed on Dixie and the Southerners who called it home.Product details
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Three Years with Quantrill A True Story Told By His Scout eBook John McCorkle O S Barton Reviews
Just read the version. Some of the facts didn't quite line up with Wikipedia, which I refer to back and forth while reading history. However the narrative was recorded when Mr. McCorkle was in his 80s and time probably had a lot to do with that. Also, history is written by the victors and therefore we will always get a bias when we read about the civil war. I did enjoy the perspective of John McCorkle. I was also struck by parallels with the wonderful novel, Woe to Ride On, by Daniel Woodrell. I suspect Woodrell based a lot of his novel on McCorkle's narrative. When I watch the movie "Ride With the Devil", which is based upon Daniel Woodrell's novel, I can see the type of cave dugout that McCorkle spend many a cold night. McCorkle wore his hair long, like the character in movie and their is even a brother who is shot a joint and dies a slow death from gangrene. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and hope the country never goes thru another civil war where there is such wide spread hunger, destruction and death.
It was a little hard to read as there were few paragraghs and the sentences ran on. I liked the book as it was a personal account of John McGorkle's time with Quantrill, telling the other side of the story. Not being familiar with that part of the country, a map to use to follow the many, many moves made over the course of 3 years would have been helpful. We forget that for them to move even a few miles was not easy, no medic, no steady supply of food, and death always at their doorstep. The story was confusing, but enjoyable and educational.
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I enjoyed the book nothing like hearing the story from the mouth of one that was there. It is a little difficult to read at times, due to spacing and no paragraphs. I was enlighten and at times shocked about the contrast that the author described between the difference in the way Union and Confederate supporters responded. If the story is true as written, Quantrill was a brave and honorable man.
I thought it was a pretty good first hand account, and I didn't get the feeling he did much embellishing if any. After enlisting,he found himself in Quantrill's militia protecting his homeland from the invading Union soldiers. With support from the local population (mostly pro-southern) they engaged in hit - and - run and harassment operations. I did not find any "bloody" atrocities I would have expected, and perhaps those actions weren't as prevalent as otherwise depicted. I've not done much other reading of neutral state civil war actions. OK reading for the money.
Old-fashioned prose, but no matter. I found this book utterly fascinating, in large part because I was born and raised in Quantrill's stomping grounds, if you will. In fact Quantrill is buried a few miles south of my home town and Bloody Bill Anderson, a few miles north. That notwithstanding, I was able to glean quite a bit of new information from this record. Never underestimate the importance of a primary source.
A first hand account of what occurred in the border states during the War Between the States. Anyone interested in American history would benefit from reading this book. It provides a different view from the official account which demonizes southern partisan fighters and has made infamous names like Quantrill and Anderson.
John McCorkle, who dictated this book to author O.S. Barton, states at the end that the book was “…written in the spirit expressed in the language of Abraham Lincoln, ‘with malice toward none and with charity to all.’ “ Throughout the reading, this spirit seemed to have been embraced, with the exceptions being when Mr. McCorkle described what he undoubtedly felt were crimes, and not acts by honorable soldiers.
John McCorkle joined up with Colonel Quantrill in August of 1862, and rode under his command until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Mr. McCorkle includes some of the more recognizable names of others in Quantrill’s command, most notably Cole and Jim Younger and Frank and Jesse James. The book details the different battles and skirmishes over those three years, which only came to an end after the surrender of General Lee.
What is most interesting are the details surrounding Mr. McCorkle’s three years as a soldier, and the actions of Southern citizens who were not part of the fight but were still active supporters. This period of history occurred a time when brother fought brother, and Federal and Confederate supporters were many times only separated by the fences of each other’s farms. Mr. McCorkle’s actions also mirrored those of other soldiers who lived in the Missouri-Kansas part of the country, who became extremely dedicated soldiers after being affected by atrocities committed by Federal soldiers. (One does have to keep in perspective the bloody history of that section of the country in the few years previous to the war, which certainly would have an effect on everyone, no matter which side of the conflict they chose to stand).
Whether you have read anything about the Civil War or this is your first time, “Three Years with Quantrill” will present a different perspective on the motives of Confederate soldiers. As a book, it may not be the best written piece of literature, but as a document of recorded personal history, it is priceless. Five stars.
Enjoyed the "front row" seat reading this. Throughout my life I've seen the oft dramatized notorious side to the adventures of Quantrill, the James Bros., Youngers, etc. as portrayed in the many TV shows and movies, where they often take extraordinary artistic license that " loosely" interpret the role these men played in fighting for a noble but lost cause. They were certainly no angels, but Americans have always had to resort to brutal and aggressive guerrilla type warfare when fighting a much larger, better equipped invading army. In its narrative you're riding right along with these men as they fight a guerrilla war against the invading Union army and their opportunistic Red Leg raiders who preyed on Dixie and the Southerners who called it home.
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