John McCorkle (1838-1918) was a scout for Partisan Confederate Ranger, William Clarke Quantrill during the American Civil War in the borderland area of Missouri and Kansas.
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This famous memoir by John McCorkle is the best published account by a scout who “rode with Quantrill.” John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became ... SEE MORE