Lawrence Raid 08/21/63 Roster of of the Victims of the Lawrence Raid Published on the 147th Anniversary.

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Lawrence citizens have always emphatically insisted that the only victims during the Lawrence raid were "peaceable, unarmed citizens."

History proves them wrong.                                                                         

Lawrence citizen Richard Cordley wrote, “It was not the shooting of a few obnoxious persons.  The killing was indiscriminate and mostly in cold blood, the victims being quiet, peaceable citizens. None of them, as far as I know, had taken any part in the early disturbances, and none of them were connected with the border troubles during the war. I do not now recall a single military man among the killed….The guerrillas shot the men they found, without knowing who they were or caring what they were.”  

The actual truth about the raid can be found in reviewing the historical record. After he gathered his men for the Lawrence raid Quantrill supplied his men with maps with each targeted house marked for destruction and “Death Lists” of individuals to be killed. The names and places shown came as no surprise. In its entirety it showed the enormity of the opposition and the level of the Kansan’s participation in waging war against her neighboring state. The foremost movers against the institutions in Missouri were those from the east that had come to Kansas in military styled companies associated with the New England Emigrant Aid Society. The remainder of the names were radical abolitionists, operators on the Underground Railroad, who had enticed or stolen slaves from Missouri, newspapermen who were guilty of fomenting unrest and calling for invasion and plunder in Missouri and assassination of Missouri slave owners, and naturally any military men either in the Federal army or Kansas militia.  

Robert S. Stevens who took an unofficial accounting of the dead and wounded after the raid recorded 133 names of those killed in Lawrence also listing wounded including both white and Negro casualties. General Thomas Ewing’s Official Report on the sack of Lawrence recorded almost the exact number of casualties listing 140 dead, including 14 from the 14th Kansas Cavalry and 20 from the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment with 24 wounded. Captain Henry E. Palmer stated 145 lives lost in his account of “The Lawrence Raid, Running Fight with the Guerrillas,”Lawrence citizen Richard Cordley listed in his account “Pioneer Days in Kansas” 150 dead and 30 wounded. Cordley recounted that “one hundred and twenty-two were deposited in the cemetery, and many others in their own yards.”                                                                                                                                

Below you will find the names of the victims of the Lawrence raid compiled from several sources and thus there is a larger number listed than from each individual account. A large majority are in the military. Since the Kansas provost-marshal's files were destroyed in the fire that engulfed the building that held its records we can naturally assume from the accounts emulating from Lawrence that the remainder of the names were in the town's militia organization.

 

Name:                                  Rank:                     Unit:

Anderson, Charles A.         Private                  12th Kansas

 

Albach, J. George

 

            
Albrecht, George

 

                                     
Allen Charles R.                  Private                  14th Kansas

 

Allen, Clay                                                          Colored Regt.

 

Allen, Elmore                                                     9th Kansas

 

Alwes, George

 

         
Anderson, John                  Private                  11th Kansas

 

Argel, James

 

Bell,George

 

Bent, George

 

Bowers, Samuel/aka Bower Private                   14th Kansas

 

Brant, R.                                     Chaplain              2nd Kansas

 

Brechtlesbauer, James

 

Brechtlesbauer, Joseph

 

Brown, ?

 

Burt, George

 

Burns, Dennis aka Burnes

 

Burns, Michael

 

Carpenter, Louis                                               Kansas Militia

 

Coates, George W. aka Coates

 

Collamore, George Washington   General      Kansas Militia

 

Clona, Charles

 

Cloud, Charles                      Colonel       2nd Kansas Colored

 

Cooper, James F.                Private        9th Kansas

 

Coleman, L. Dwight

 

Cornell, John A.

 

Cornell, P.                                                 Colored Regiment

 

Crane, John Lewis                                   Kansas Militia

 

Dagle, John

 

Dix, Ralph C.

 

Dix, Stephen H.

 

Dulinsky, Sylvester

 

Dulinsky, William

 

Dyre, Frank

 

Early, George,/aka Earle   Captain         9th Kansas

 

Eckman, Carl

 

Edwards, John                   Private           7th Kansas

 

Ehles,  August, aka Ehlis, Ellis, Ethels.

 

Eldridge, James

 

Ellis, Frank,                                               Colored Regiment

                                                                                                                                       

Engler, John

 

Englesman, Phillip

 

Engler, Carl

 

Englesman, ?

 

Evans, John Z                     Private          5th Kansas

 

 Fillmore, Lemuel

 

Finley, James B.

 

Finley, Joseph

 

Fitch, Edward, P.                              Kansas Militia

 

Frawley, John aka Fromley

 

Frank, Joseph

 

Fritch, S. H.

 

Gates, Levi                                       Kansas Militia

 

Gentry, first or last name?

 

Gerrard, George

 

Giebal, Anthony aka Girbal

 

Giffler, A. aka Gufler

 

Gill, John B. aka Gille                       Private  9th Kansas

 

Goldman,?

 

Green, John R.                                  Private  14th Kansas

 

Griswold, Jerome F.

 

Griswold, Abner W

 

Griswold, Walter B. S.                    Private       14th Kansas

 

Halderman, Aaron                          Private       14th Kansas

 

Hanson, ?

 

Hendrix, ?

 

Henry, Charles                                           Colored Regiment                                                                                                                                    

 

Hay, Chester D.

 

Hoge, Calvin
               

 

Holmes, Nathan

 

Holt, George                                                  Kansas Militia

 

Johnson, Maxwell             Private               6th Kansas

 

Johnson, Benjamin                                       11th Kansas

 

Jones, Samuel                  Private                12th Kansas

 

Keefe, Patrick aka Keith

 

Klares, William

 

Klaus, William

 

Klaus, Frederick

 

Kleffer, W. M. R. aka Kliffler

 

Laner, Christian aka Leener

 

Laurie, John W. aka Lawrie             Private   Kansas Militia

 

Laurie, William Jr. aka Lawrie        Private   Kansas Militia

 

Leonard, Christopher

 

Lambert, Harwick

 

Lambert, O. O.

 

Little, John                                         Private   9th Kansas

 

Limboch, Henry aka Limbach

 

Laner,  Christian

 

Longley, Otis

 

Loomis, Richard

 

Rensellor  ?                                      Private     2nd Kansas

 

Lowe, Joseph G.                              Captain    Kansas Militia

 

McFarland,    ?                                                  Kansas Militia

 

McClellan, Amos                              Private    Kansas Militia

 

McClelland, Daniel                           Private    Kansas Militia

 

McFadden, Jacob                             Sergeant Kansas Militia

 

Mackin, Michael aka McClaine

 

Markle, David                                  Private    14th Kansas

 

Markle, Lewis Cass                         Private    14th Kansas

 

Markle, Samuel                               Private    14th Kansas

 

Martha, Thomas aka Murtha

 

Martin, Michael                   Sergeant             5th Kansas

 

Martin, Robert                                                 Kansas Militia

 

Murphy, Dennis                                               16th Kansas

 

Murphy, James                   Private                  6th Kansas

 

Murphy, Thomas                Private                  15th Kansas

 

Makin, Michael

 

Martha, ?

 

Meeky, Michael aka McKee

 

Meeky, R. aka McKee
        

 

Nathan, W.Nichols, ?

 

Oldham, Anthony                                  Colored Regiment

 

Oehrle, George

 

O’Neil, James                                   Corporal 2nd Kansas

 

Page, George

 

Palmer, Charles A.

 

Palmer, Daniel W.

 

Parker, Asbury aka Ashbury         Private  14th Kansas

 

Parker, Isaac J.                                Private  14th Kansas

 

Perine, James aka Perrine

 

Pope, George

 

Pollock, Jacob aka Pollok                Private

 

Purington, David H. aka David N.

 

Range, George

 

Range, Samuel

 

Roach, ?

 

Roach, James

 

Reed, Peter Sr.

 

Reedmiller, A.

 

Reel, Samuel Jeremiah
 
 

Riggs, Charles F.                      Private            14th Kansas

 

S. C. ?

 

Sargeant, George H.                                        Kansas Militia

 

Sanger, George N.                                            Kansas Militia

 

Sanger, George H.

 

Schmidt, Charles                      Corporal           11th Kansas

 

Schwab, John

 

Speer, John M. Jr.

 

Speer, Robert                           Private           14th Kansas 

 

Snyder, Samuel S.                   Lieutenant       2nd Kansas

 

Stewart, Henry                        Sergeant          2nd Kansas

 

Smith, Charles                          2nd Lt               1st Kansas

 

Stewart, Henry                         Sergeant   2nd Kansas

 

Stonestreet, Benjamin                                Colored Regiment

 

Stone, Joseph                      Private             2nd Kansas

 

Stone, Nathan

 

Swan, Louis L. aka Louis H.

 

Thorpe, Josiah C.

 

Thorp, Simeon M.

 

Trask, Josiah C.               Major                    Kansas Miltia                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 

Tritch, E. P.

 

Turk, David

 

Watson, James E.

 

Watson, John                     Private               14th Kansas

 

Waugh, Addison                 Private                  9th Kansas

 

Waugh, William A.             Private                 14th Kansas

 

West, ?

 

White, ?

 

Williams, William               Private                    7th Kansas

 

Wise, Louis                          Private                    8th Kansas

 

Williamson, William T        Private                    9th Kansas

 

Wilson, James                     Private                   14th Kansas

 

Wilson, John

 

Woods, Andrew J.              Private                   14th Kansas

 

Wood, James                       Private                    7th Kansas

 

Zimmerman, John K.         Private            1st Kansas                                                                                                                                     

 

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