William Clarke Quantrill

Died: June 6, 1865 (aged 27) in Louisville, Kentucky

Buried at St. John's Catholic Cemetery Louisville, Kentucky

Allegiance:
United States United States of America
Confederate States of America

Service/branch:
Confederate States Army
Guerrilla

Years of service: 1861–1865

Rank: Captain

Battles/wars:
American Civil War
Lawrence, Kansas

Quantrill was well-educated and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a schoolteacher at the age of sixteen. In 1854, his abusive father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with a huge financial debt. Quantrill's mother had to turn her home into a boarding house in order to survive. Quantrill helped support the family by working as a schoolteacher but left home a year later and headed to Mendota, Illinois.[2] Here, Quantrill took up a job in the lumberyards, unloading timber from rail cars. One night while working the late shift, he shot a man dead.