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Quantrill is shot in the back and paralyzed; Union hunters corner him in a Kentucky barn
Terrell's guerrilla hunters trap the raider who burned a quarter of Lawrence and killed some 150 men and boys, and he is now paralyzed from the chest down.
The Civil War was effectively over — Lee had surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, Johnston to Sherman on April 26 — but William Quantrill was still riding. In May 1865, the guerrilla leader who had burned a quarter of Lawrence, Kansas, and killed some 150 men and boys two years earlier was cornered in a barn near Wakefield, Kentucky, by a band of Union guerrilla hunters under Edwin W. Terrell. Shot in the back and paralyzed from the chest down, Quantrill lingered in a military prison hospital on Broadway in Louisville for nearly a month before dying on June 6, at twenty-seven…
