Three Years with Quantrill

A True Story Told by His Scout

De: John McCorkle, O. S. Barton

Narrado por: Dan John Miller

This famous memoir by John McCorkle is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill".

John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill's infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people. McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas; and Centralia, Missouri.

In 1865 he followed Quantrill into Kentucky, where the notorious leader was killed, and his followers, McCorkle among them, surrendered and were paroled by Union authorities. Early in this century, having returned to farming, McCorkle told his remarkable Civil War experiences to O. S. Barton, a lawyer, who wrote this book, first published in 1914.

Public Domain (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Excellent

Love the ground level experience and the true feelings of those who were there, not 100-year-later Monday morning quarterbacks.

Appalling History well told

Good narrator, scary to imagine this all really happened so atrocious on all sides I feel worse knowing there are still scars on the people and lack here in CASS county

terrific book

a lively take and well told. spectacular performance... remind me of Ang Lee's movie,"Ride with the Devil." which also was terrific!

Fantastic history

Here's the other side of the story. It's important to listen to all sides if we truly intend to know the truth.

History in context

Most history portrays Quantrill and his command as outlaws. This story by John McCorkle paints a different picture. The outrageous and lethal behavior upon the local people was the reason for the formation of this Confederate unit. It is understandable when you are presented with the context of the actual time, how things fall in place. When the common people are brutalized, there comes a point when their young men will rise up and protect their people. A very interesting story.

Civil War history

A look inside the Civil War from the cavalry soldier level, this one a Confederate officer riding with Quantrill, who is not described here by eyewitnesses the way more modern history reports. The book is a good overview of how combat occurred and how the soldiers were supported by civilians.

Very important history…

…from a first hand perspective and a much needed balance to the generally accepted (and politically correct) snapshots from Wikipedia. In short, it is not so cut and dried who is the supposed bad guy and who we are sometimes blindly led to believe who is the “good” guy. This is not soaring rhetoric, masterful diction or scintillating prose, but it is “the facts” and as History is still written by the winners, this even and balanced perspective is a MUST!

Good story telling

Not a bad listen. Imagine sitting by a campfire for 3+ hours listening to an old southern man from Missouri telling you about his time during the civil war. I enjoyed it.

Missouri boys

This is a great account of Quantrills Raiders & how they protected the people of Missouri & surrounding states. They righted wrongs on both sides of the war.

Civil war

This was a good reading for civil war interests, and Midwesterners.Very informative, and interesting. I gzttt