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Quantrill's Raiders  

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  • Although irregular warfare occurred throughout the occupied South during the Civil War, a band of Missouri guerrillas, led by William Clarke Quantrill, engaged in a series of especially vicious, effective, and notable exploits. Organized in December 1861, Quantrill's Raiders included such notorious characters as George Todd, Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger, and “Bloody Bill” Anderson. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Quantrill's Raiders]

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