"Raymond O'Hara" wrote in message
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"William Black" wrote in message
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"Raymond O'Hara" wrote in message
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"William Black" wrote in message
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he might have secured a captaincy but there is nothing official to
back that up and he never commanded a regiment,

Both Quantrill and Anderson were undoubtedly commissioned.


undoubted by you. doubted by everybody else.



Quantrill was called 'colonel' by his men and we have documentary
evidence that Anderson was considered a major by his commanding
general.


harlan sanders was called colonel by his men too. its a southern thing.



A lot of people have, over the years, pretended that these men acted
without proper oversight by their government.


they did operate without any oversite.
jeff davis might have been a traitor but quantrill and anderson were not
the type of men he approved of.




The extant evidence, and accounts at the time, seems to indicate that
in fact they operated as units of the confederate 'state'.


show this evidence. i've never seen it


Try reading books Ray.

--
William Black


i have, including some on confederate partisans.

No evidence of that so far...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.