Tracing America, Episode 1, The Lawrence Massacre

[@adriannamarieakaad9384]

My grandmother was born in Lawrence and both my grandparents went to KU. This was a fascinating documentary. Thank you for taking me on this journey. Can't wait to go back to Lawrence and visit these places.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

Thank You!

[@JS-ti8ny]

Our shared American history has been OBLITERATED by the Marxist in Washington DC. Go rewatch the Charlottesville riot Psyop. They used 2 different Dodge Challengers in that crisis actor sideshow to tear down Confederate Landmarks.

[@TrooBlud34]

Absolutely amazing work!! Thank you!🤩 I've been tracking with you for a year or so, beginning with your episodes on Custer and the Little Big Horn. Your knowledge of these subjects is excellent, and your work is appreciated.✌️🇺🇲

[@michaelchappell902]

I live in Lawrence, Kansas and have studied this history. Thank you for filling in the holes of the story. This is why there remains even today a hatred between Kansas and Missouri. I know where the historical places are in and around Lawrence.

[@MilitaryHistory317]

I had heard that this hatred exists to this day but never paid attention. During our travels over the area, it is very evident it exists if you pay attention. By the way, Lawrence, KS, is a great town with great people!

[@galeaiken3841]

Only hate each other because KU KSU and MO UNIVERSITY sports

[@joeritchie4554]

Thank you for posting and telling this story of our history. It gets so little coverage in American history classes. Your episode shows the horror these people faced during the civil war. It was truly educational.

[@daviddill3484]

Awesome documentary! I had no idea about the Martha Young Truman connection to the Border War. Looking forward to more of your videos.

[@baystateplugflipper7061]

Great video, I have 2 ancestors from Missouri fighting for the south during that time. One killed at Centralia MO. In 1864 and the other paroled in Louisiana in 1865 when he surrendered with the rest of the 9th MO.

[@PhnxCaller]

Wow! Fantasitic quality. I appreciate your hard work! The best docs on Quantrill...and your best doc to date. No joke.

[@allisonwhitten3313]

Thanks for keeping the history intact!

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

Outstanding content on this subject. Throughly enjoyed the presentation. I can’t help to think about the movie Josey Wales while listening to this upload. Thanks again for the content

[@dennymeyer7410]

Once again knocked it out of the park. This is quality history and deserves much more credit. Are you on Patreon? I would be willing to support your work.

[@Fixingtodraw]

There are some excellent diaries I own written by some of the American Confederate Soldiers who attacked this hotbed of Lincoln cutthoarts. I understand their reasons for this attack now.

[@kimbragdon4935]

Excellent coverage

[@barrycarroll1776]

..Fascinating..! Well done sir..

[@rosieatkins2372]

Thanks for introducing me to this side of America...

[@usualsuspect5173]

Excellent. Good history lesson, thank you.

[@walterbrown9651]

Excellent! Quantrill was buried in St. Mary's cemetery (now St John's) in Louisville, Ky. Q's childhood friend William Scott made a few trips to have Q exhumed in 1887 and made off with Q's bones, with most ending up with the Kansas Historical Society til 1992 when released for burial in the Higginton,MO Confederate cemetery. The Border War has been a hot topic with me since high school. Love your work. Q',Anderson,Todd,Frank,Jesse,the Youngers,Little Archie,John Lobb,Henry Wilson are all scary and interesting.

[@billflamank6882]

Higginsville, MO

[@dixieleeranch]

Great history story. good job!

[@johnlovett8341]

Thanks. Nice work I like that, at the end, you recignize that Quantrill and his gang are villians rather than heroes. Loved your Sioux War series.

[@jmhproductions7335]

He was a defender against Jayhawking, yankee devil trash…

[@millieil6510]

you must be a Jayhawker....why no one is doing a video on how Jennison and his men shot and murdered innocent civilians, r*ped women, or wantonly robbed and torched homes? Lawrence didn't happen because the Union guys were paragons of moral civility or the Bushwhackers were just bored.

[@carysunshine7299]

Found the story about Trumans mother very revealing

[@riley5329]

Norm Stewart a basketball coach for the univ of Missouri hated Kansas so much he would refuse to spend any money there when his team had a game in Kansas.

[@johnzajac9849]

At 12:56, it's of interest that the plaque honorifically identifies Quantrill as 'Lt. Col.'.

[@eddieboulrice6791]

Man you told a good story I never knewsome of this thanks for the info.dangerous men doing terrible things to unarmed men .

[@getoffenit7827]

More please!

[@elmerkilred159]

Cool video! Thanks!

[@Fixingtodraw]

It would be cool to metal detect that camp site.

[@EricRush]

Excellent production, but, to my aging ears, the background music was a bit too loud.

[@isabellawalker3876]

For me, the quantity was unreal

[@maximewisoky9286]

I didn't even know about it

[@marlenmcdowell21]

Taking away so many lives unnecessarily...

[@VytalParks]

Still, many people don't know about it

[@terrybotkin6622]

Excellent!!

[@LaGrandeBayou]

The psychopathic killer was John Brown. That's undisputed

[@kencarney5456]

Quantrill was a rank opportunist, he was in Missouri at the beginning of the war because he gave up a Free Stater Slave Stealing Raid.

[@DwaneRoberts-bl9oe]

How can someone be this brutal!!!!

[@MrSoulauctioneer]

he was a murderous terrorist, his whole gang was. a csa officer that never wore a uniform, mainly fighting civilians. The list of war crimes these people did were endless. Somehow people have tried to make freedom fighters out of these people.

[@shakirahegmann5187]

I have so much hate for that William

[@multipletanksyndrome]

Rock Chalk.

[@brandonhowe8905]

Violence was the only this they knew

[@karlraschdorf1758]

Somewhat biased although not terribly so. My opinion to your story became critical when Benjamin Potter was only briefly mentioned. see "six man cemetery" in Lone Jack.

[@ericflagg80]

Fuckin A

[@aliyahkilback7489]

For looting and whatso every purpose, this was so wrong

[@brianmorgan5739]

This was in an era before a Geneva Convention, before a World Court of Justice. In this era the term " All's fair in love and war" had a true meaning in which there were no rules in warfare in that era. One has to remember that both sides both Pro Slavery and Anti Slavery forces were committing the very same Autrosities on both sides of the Kansas and Missouri border. The only reason why the raid upon Lawrence, Kansas became so infamous was that Quantril rode into Lawrence with four hundred raiders in tow and half his force were drunk and hell bent on revenge for the Kansas City cell house collapse in which many of the men involved with the Lawrence raid lost family members. Also we must also not compare the mindset of today with the mindset of those in the Civil War era and especially those whom were alive during the Antebellum South. It was a different era and a different set of values as compared to today's society.

[@WilliamFlickinger-y8f]

They jail y human mother and robbed her house

[@careydecker4427]

He is a nationalist villain as per me

[@MrSoulauctioneer]

yeah let's feel sorry for the Burnt District, the Union Army hit the terrorists where they lived. Truman's mama has the same mindset as a hamas supporting arab in Israel. THe Union were the heroes you were looking for, but you refuse to allow them the same level of harshness as the terrorists.

[@GGGboi]

😂😂

[@MrSoulauctioneer]

Quantrill was what is commonly known as a terrorist. He used terror to achieve his ends. He fought civilians. These ''raiders'' were no soldiers, they were much much less.

[@carllingenfelser3933]

But Jayhawkers sacking Osceola in Sept 1861 was okay?

[@gilbertlancaster4793]

Thanks for keeping the history intact!