Title:
Lock of hair from the head of William Clarke Quantrill
Description:
Lock of hair, blond / white, placed within a wooden frame. Note in the front of the frame states: Lock of hair of Wm. Clarke Quantrill, the chief of guerilla warfare. Sticker on the back of the frame: C.M. Miller, fine picture framing, 318116, Austin, Texas.
Description:
Historical Note: Lock of hair from the head of William Clarke Quantrill, a Confederate guerrilla soldier. He was born in Dover, Ohio, on July 31, 1837. Quantrill entered the Civil War on the Confederate side with enthusiasm. By late 1861, he was the leader of Quantrill's Raiders, a small force of no more than a dozen men who harassed Union soldiers and sympathizers along the Kansas-Missouri border and often clashed with Jayhawkers, the pro-Union guerrilla bands that reversed Quantrill's tactics by staging raids from Kansas into Missouri. Union forces soon declared him an outlaw, and the Confederacy officially made him a captain. To his supporters in Missouri, he was a dashing, free-spirited hero. Quantrill was eventually killed on a raid into Kentucky in 1865.
Identifier:
ATF0307
Item identifier:
ATF0307
Collection:
Artifacts collection
Date of creation:
1864
Container information:
Artifact Box 0061
Geographic coverage:
United States
Subject:
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865
Subject:
Confederate States of America
Subject:
History
Subject:
Civil War, 1861-1865
Type:
Image
Type:
Human hair
Medium:
Organic material
Citation information:
ATF0307, Artifacts collection. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Copyright information:
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Size or duration:
5.75 in x 4.25 in x 0.75 in