William Clarke Quantrill His Life And Times With Plates Including A Portrait PDF Download

Suppressed Evidence contains the letters of W. L. Potter and Abraham Ellis to W. W. Scott. After the Civil War, Scott began to write a biography about the Missouri confederate guerrilla, Colonel William Clark Quantrill. Scott died before he could complete the book and his letters ended up in the hands of William E. Connelley, president of the Kansas State Historical Society. Connelley "cherry picked" information from the correspondences that agreed with his version of Quantrill's life and ignored other testimony that conflicted with his views. With this information Connelley published Quantrill and the Border Wars, that continues to be considered one of the most accurate accounts about Quantrill's life. Potter and Ellis's letters are interesting as they either conflict with, or provide different explanations about the events in the life of the guerrilla chieftain.