William Quantrill Military person

William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and massacre at Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in Kentucky, where he was mortally wounded in a Union ambush in May 1865 at the age of 27.

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Birth date	July 31, 1837
Birth place	Ohio , Dover Ohio
Date of death	June 06, 1865
Place of death	Kentucky

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allegiance	* * United States of America
military operations	American Civil War Lawrence Kansas
military branch	Guerrilla warfare in the American Civil War
service start	1861
service end	1865