Quantrill's Raid

A massive, collaborative digitization project underway at the Kansas City Public Library has brought together a unique collection of documents from 25 institutions scattered across Kansas and Missouri. Among the 6,000 pages of digitized materials (which in early-2013 will be made available on civilwaronthewesternborder.org) are numerous letters written in the aftermath of William Clarke Quantrill's infamous guerilla raid on Lawrence, Kansas in the early morning hours of Friday, August 21, 1863.