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Re: William Hulse, Quantrill's Guerillas

This is what I have on William Hulse: Served under Quantrill. From Clark County, KY, lived near Independence, MO. In the 1860 MO census, Jackson County, Independence Post Office, Blue Township, Freeman Hulse, 47 year old farmer, wife Judith, 49 both born in KY. Their children were Zadoch, 20, farmhand; William, 18 and Sallie 16 born in KY; Betsy, 14 born in MO (as were the other children); James, 10; Annie, 8; and Richard, 6. Hulse married Thomas Ann Carter, who died in 1890; their daughter Hattie died in 1893.

Some of the battles he fought in were Younger's winter camp in 1862, the Lawrence Massacre/Raid, Fayette, and the Centralia battle with Johnson. He rode in the rear guard leaving Centralia.

Hulse went to Kentucky with Quantrill. He fought in the Hopkinsville battle, was in the ambush at Worthville, and fought at Wakefield's farm. On July 26,1865, he surrendered at Samuel's Depot, KY, and was paroled.

After the war, he was a suspect in the Richmond bank robbery, but was not arrested. While at his fahter's home, the house was surrounded and Hulse was shot and left for dead. some of his friends took him to safety, and Dr. Lee Miller from Lee's Summit, came and tended him.

Hulse died in 1890, and was buried in Lee's Summit Cemetery, Lee's Summit, MO.

Sources: Carl Breihan, Quantrill and his Civil War Guerrillas, 164, 169; Richard Brownlee, Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy, 256; William E. Connelley, Quantrill and the Border Wars, 457, 478-9; Jim Cummins, Jim Cummins' Book,22; Joanne Eakin & Donald Hale, Branded as Rebels, 221; John N. Edwards, Noted Guerrillas, 134, 148, 162, 203, 312, 383, 391, 393, 401, 411, 429, 435; Rose Mary Lankford, Encyclopedia of Quantrill's Guerrillas, 111-112; Robertus Love, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, 81; William A. Settle, Jr., Jesse James Was His Name, 206; Paul I. Wellman, A Dynasty of Western Outlaws, 59-63; Coleman Younger, The Story of Cole Younger, 37; 1860 MO census.

I hope this helps.

Rose Mary Lankford

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