-On August 21 his band torched Lawrence, Kansas (as stated before) where they murdered some 150 citizens

-Quantrill’s life before the war was surprisingly mild. He was a school teacher in Ohio and Illinois

-He moved in 1857 to Kansas, and in 1858 he accompanied an army provision train to Utah. At Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, and elsewhere in the territory, Quantrill was associated with a number of murders and thefts. He fled a warrant for his arrest in Utah in 1860 and returned to Kansas. In December he joined a group in an effort to free the slaves of a Missouri man; he betrayed the plans, and three of the abolitionists were killed. Quantrill collected a group of renegades in the Kansas-Missouri area. He fought with Confederate forces at the battle of Wilson's Creek in Oakhills, Missouri, in August 1861 but soon thereafter began irregular independent operations. Later in the war, Quantrill’s capture of Independence gave him the rank of Captain in the Confederate army, but he was ruled an outlaw by Union Forces.

-At the end of the war, Quantrill rode into a Union brigade and was ambushed and killed by a gunshot wound to the chest.

William Clarke Quantrill