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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL Civil War Union occupation NEWSPAPER, the Alexandria Gazette (VA)  dated Aug 22, 1863. This original newspaper contains a prominent front page headline: "INVASION OF KANSAS" with a 1/2 column report of the infamous WILLIAM QUANTRILL RAID on Lawrence, Kansas, also known as the LAWRENCE MASSACRE. 

William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader and mass murderer during the American Civil War.

He endured a tempestuous childhood, became a schoolteacher, and joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside to apprehend escaped slaves. The group became Confederate soldiers called Quantrill's Raiders, a pro-Confederate partisan ranger outfit best known for its often brutal guerrilla tactics, and including the young Jesse James and his older brother Frank James.

Quantrill was influential to many bandits, outlaws, and hired guns of the Old West as it was being settled. On August 21, 1863, Quantrill's Raiders committed the Lawrence Massacre, which they had conspired. 
The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 unarmed men and boys.

The attack on the morning of Friday, August 21, 1863, targeted Lawrence due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for the Jayhawkers, who were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking plantations in pro-slavery Missouri's western counties.

In May 1865, Quantrill was mortally wounded in combat by Union troops in Central Kentucky in one of the last engagements of the Civil War. He died of wounds in June.

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