{"product_id":"2940169780345","title":"Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis famous memoir by John McCorkle is the best published account by a scout who ¿rode with Quantrill.¿ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill¿??s infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people. McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Centralia, Missouri. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1865 he followed Quantrill into Kentucky, where the notorious leader was killed and his followers, McCorkle among them, surrendered and were paroled by Union authorities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly in this century, having returned to farming, McCorkle told his remarkable Civil War experiences to O. S. Barton, a lawyer, who wrote this book, first published in 1914.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101998661872,"sku":"2940169780345","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169780345_p0.jpg?v=1769899973","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169780345","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}