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Bushwhacker
Bushwhacker: Civil War term for un-uniformed pro-Confederate guerrillas, chiefly in Missouri and adjoining states, 1861-1865; distinct from sanctioned partisan rangers, classed as illegal combatants under the Lieber Code, associated with Quantrill and Anderson.
Cole Younger
Cole Younger (Thomas Coleman Younger, 1844–1916), Missouri outlaw, Quantrill guerrilla, and James-Younger gang member; captured at the 1876 Northfield bank raid, imprisoned at Stillwater, pardoned 1903.
Jayhawker
Jayhawker: nickname for a Kansan, originally an antislavery guerrilla raider of the Bleeding Kansas era and Civil War border conflict; disputed origin, later the University of Kansas Jayhawks mascot.
Quantrill's Raiders
Quantrill's Raiders were William Clarke Quantrill's Confederate guerrilla band on the Kansas-Missouri border, organized December 1861, infamous for the August 21, 1863 Lawrence Massacre and Baxter Springs killings.
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865), Confederate guerrilla leader of Quantrill's Raiders, led the 1863 Lawrence Massacre in Kansas and the Baxter Springs massacre; mortally wounded in Kentucky in 1865.
William T. Anderson
William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson (c. 1837-1839 to October 1864) was a Confederate guerrilla captain in Civil War Missouri, a leader in the 1863 Lawrence Massacre and the 1864 Centralia Massacre, killed at Albany by forces under Samuel P. Cox.