. Noted guerrillas, or The warfare of the border. Being a history of the lives and adventures of Quantrell, Bill Anderson, George Todd, Dave Poole, Fletcher Taylor, Peyton Long, Oll Shepherd, Arch Clements, John Maupin, Tuck and Woot Hill, Wm. Gregg, Thomas Maupin, the James brothers, the Younger brothers, Arthur McCoy, and numerous other well known guerrillas of the West . THE WABFABE OF THE BOBDEB HI weird laughter of the owls could be heard in the thickets; indaylight, when the birds sang as they found sweet seed. Theblack flag was being woven, but it had not yet been unfurled. Breaking sud
. Noted guerrillas, or The warfare of the border. Being a history of the lives and adventures of Quantrell, Bill Anderson, George Todd, Dave Poole, Fletcher Taylor, Peyton Long, Oll Shepherd, Arch Clements, John Maupin, Tuck and Woot Hill, Wm. Gregg, Thomas Maupin, the James brothers, the Younger brothers, Arthur McCoy, and numerous other well known guerrillas of the West . THE WABFABE OF THE BOBDEB HI weird laughter of the owls could be heard in the thickets; indaylight, when the birds sang as they found sweet seed. Theblack flag was being woven, but it had not yet been unfurled. Breaking suddenly out of Jackson county, Quantrell raidedShawneetown, Kansas, and captured its garrison of fifty at Olathe, Kansas, the next day, the right hand did whatthe left one finished so well at Shawneetown; seventy-five Fed-erals surrendered here. Each garrison was paroled and set free—e-ich garrison save seven from Shawneetown; these wereJennisons Jay hawkers and they had to die. A military execu-tion is where one man kills another; it is horrible. In battleone does not see death. He is there surely—he is in that bat-terys smoke, on the crest of that hill fringed with the fringe ofpallid faces, under the hoofs of the horses, yonder where theblue or the gray line creeps onward trailing ominous guns—buthis cold, calm eyes look at no single victim. He ki
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