QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS ATTACKED A UNION COLUMN AT WILLOW CREEK. QUANTRILL'S MEN, IGNORING THE RULES OF WAR, SHOT EVERY MAN THEY ENCOUNTERED, EVEN THOSE TRYING TO SURRENDER. MANY OTHERS WERE SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AS THEY LAY WOUNDED ON THE PRAIRIE. OUT ...

CONFEDERATE WILLIAM C. QUANTRILL ON HIS ROUTE TO TEXAS TO SPEND THE WINTER OF 1863, HEARD OF THE FORT AT BAXTER SPRINGS AND ON OCTOBER 6TH, MADE A SURPRISE ATTACK UPON THE FORT WITH ABOUT 300 MEN. QUICKLY UNION TROOPS IN PARTICULAR THE 2ND KANSAS COLORED ...

DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF GENERAL JAMES G. BLUNT AND HIS ESCORT WHO DEFENSELESS, FELL VICTIMS TO THE INHUMAN FEROCITY OF GUERRILLAS, LED BY THE INFAMOUS QUANTRELL IN HIS RAID UPON BAXTER SPRINGS OCTOBER 6TH 1863, IN WHICH 135 UNION SOLDIERS WERE SLAIN AND AR ...

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ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES TO THE MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF BAXTER SPRINGS OCTOBER 8, 1863 AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN THIS VICINITY WHO ARE BURIED NEAR THIS MONUMENT, AND WHOSE NAMES ARE KNOWN, ARE INSCRIBED HERON.