“Colonel” (Captain) William C. Quantrill, commanding his Quantrill’s Raiders (a pro-Confederate guerilla cavalry), raids then burns Lawrence, Kansas.

       [restored 2/23/2025]

Subsequent Events:

2/22/1865                   10/19/1865

References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 295.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,214,325,271,235

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