lawrence-burning

Updated: May 8, 2025

With his terrible earnestness and indomitable will, with his ability to weld as it were, to himself all those who came under his influence, what an avenger he would have been on the tracks of such chivalrous Southerners as Quantrell of Lawrence-burning notoriety, and those who at Fort Pillow and at Plymouth, N.C. carved out for themselves eternal infamy.

Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe - John Brown: A Retrospect: Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.