William Quantrill addressed his ragtag army on the evening of August 20, 1863. “Boys, this is a hazardous ride, and there is a chance we will all be annihilated.” A few men slunk away, but the rest rode through the night with their 25-year-old commander. Their mission—vengeance. Not long before, military commander Thomas Ewing Jr. had taken several of Quantrill’s female relatives prisoner, housing them in a makeshift jail. On August 14 the building collapsed, killing five and injuring
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