April 21rst: Today in 1863 William Quantrill led a bloody raid of Lawrence, Kansas that resulted in the killing of over two hundred men and boys by his raiders. Several of Quantrill’s raiders went on to infamy as bank robbers including Frank and Jessie James and Cole Younger and his brothers.

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