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Fahring’s Fifth Grade - Attica USD 511 |
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718 N. Main Last updated 12-8-2006 |
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Attica Puls Elementary |
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Below: On August 23, 1863, Quantrill led his 300-plus
followers in a violent attack on Lawrence, burning the major buildings and
killing between 150 and 200 of them. |
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Left: William
C. Quantrill's August 21, 1863, raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left an estimated
two hundred men and boys dead or dying from gun shot wounds and an indelible
mark on the survivors and their descendants. |
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Below/Right: Independence, Missouri, was the target of Quantrill's
band in August They captured the town and a force of Union troops. Shortly
after, Quantrill and his men were sworn into the Confederate Army, and he was
given the rank of captain. |
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Image courtesy of:
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/ftlvn/ftlvn.asp#Bleeding |
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Above Image courtesy of:
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1963/63_2_bidlack.htm Image of Captain
Quantrill courtesy of:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-Quantrill.html |