Westabot@aol.com wrote: > > Guild Press has a CD ROM with the history of the border wars including the > Quantrill Raiders and Jessie James. It is supposed to be historically correct > and the most accurate account of all known names. There was also a book > written in the 1877 called Civil War Book "Noted Guerrillas" 1877. It was > reproduced in 1966 and can be found at used book stores. John Newman Edwards > also wrote a book about the same subject in 1867 called Shelby and His Men . > I have been told that his books are the most accurate. > > Someone I know does have this information and this is what he said "Also I > have found reference to John (and several other Maupins) all in the western > theater in the GP CD ROM." The ones who want to know should look for this CD > or possibly the book. I think it may be your best bet. You might want to try > a search engine. This is also information he gave to me: "Also I recall > seeing John Maupin listed in Quantrill's roster - I assume this is why you > were interested in 'noted guerillas'. The Official Records Civil War CD-ROM > More comments from my source: "Guild Press is 1 of 3 vendors who advertise - > CDROMs of the Official Records > for Armies (and Navies also). Reading off a tube is not as nice as an old > book but you cannot beat the search capability for research. They list for > $70 U.S. - I found a vendor by just searching thru Yahoo who sold it for > $55. > I may recall the name Maupin but it may have been only listed in 1 or 2 > Quantrill/Anderson roster lists I have gathered which were published in > certain books (and web sites). I'll have a quick look for any hits on the > name. > I have had good luck with Amazon finding reprints of a couple of old books - > they search various used book stores. > > Here is a web site devoted to a researcher. There are many Civil War buffs > out there and you can probably find many more. How accurate they are, who > knows. This site has John Maupin down as John Maughn and claims he was from > St. Louis. I don't think that is accurate. <A > HREF="http://www.geocities.com:0080/~sterlingprice/guerilla.htm"> > http://www.geocities.com:0080/~sterlingprice/guerilla.htm</A> > Another site with a list of the men: <A > HREF="http://www.everton.com/usa/GENEALOG/GENEALOG.QUANTRIL"> > http://www.everton.com/usa/GENEALOG/GENEALOG.QUANTRIL</A> this site lists two > Maupins: > Maupin, John + Quantrill > > Maupin, Thomas + Quantrill Killed 1865 > Breihan says that he became a Texas cattleman after the war. > > This is another site with a list of Anderson's men: > <A HREF="http://www.mcmsys.com/~nblock/">http://www.mcmsys.com/~nblock/</A> > > Another site under the Quantrill Flag > <A HREF="http://www.rulen.com/partisan/">http://www.rulen.com/partisan/</A> > this site lists: > Maupin, John Quantrill Was at Lawrence August 21, 1863. Later went to Texas > with George Shephard but soon returned. Attended reunions. Under the Museum > Archive the have the reunion photos posted. > > Here are a few sites that either lists or has just about every book ever > written on the border wars:<A > HREF="http://www.blueandgrey.com/html/b_g_books.html"> > http://www.blueandgrey.com/html/b_g_books.html</A> > <A HREF="http://www.usmo.com/~momollus/books/Cwmo.htm"> > http://www.usmo.com/~momollus/books/Cwmo.htm</A> > > John is the one you usually see in the historical records, but my friend > tells me there are several listed on the CD. > > My father's mother was a Maupin from Putnam County and she told my dad that > Quantrill's men had stopped by their farm to get fresh horses for a trip to > St. Louis. She was a very small child. She knew that her dad knew some of > them and thought he had a relative in that group that came by for horses. > Edwards' book is probably the most quoted and excerpt from it are all over > the Internet. This site, which is a government site, references Edwards list > of names as accurate. <A > HREF="http://homepages.go.com/~snowrose1/farms/Misc.html"> > http://homepages.go.com/~snowrose1/farms/Misc.html</A> > There are many who see Edwards book as accurate and others who do not. This > is from a critic of the book. > Guerrilla Mythmaker Exraordinaire > As the years passed by and Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War lost their > immediate hold on people's hearts and minds, a professional journalist and > former Confederate cavalryman named John N. Edwards waged a one-man war to > refurbish the image of the Missouri guerrillas. How well he succeeded can be > seen in his extraordinary influence on subsequent historians of the war in > the West. > > Edwards, who had served under Brig. Gen. Jo Shelby during the war, set about > in the mid-1870s to change the public's perception of wartimes Bushwhackers > from wanton killers to noble--if improbable--knights of a gallant > brotherhood. In his book Noted Guerrillas, Edwards concentrated on the > much-maligned historical figure of William Clarke Quantrill, portraying his > as a "bashful and timid" youth who "knew nothing of the tiger that was in him > until death had been dashed against his eyes in numberless and brutal ways, > and until the blood of his own kith and kin had been sprinkled plentifully > upon things that his hands touched." > > Disregarding Quantrill's rather unsavory prewar life, Edwards excused the > guerrilla leader's undoubted excesses as mere self-defense and acts of honor. > "He lifted the black flag in self-defense," wrote Edwards, "and fought as > became a free man and a hero." > > Other guerrillas also found themselves recast in the heroic mold. Fletch > Taylor, a Clay County Bushwhacker, was depicted as "a low massive > Hercules...built like a quarterhorse, knowing nature well, seeing equally in > darkness and light, rapacious for exercise, having an anatomy like a steam > engine, impervious to fatigue like a Cossack, and to hunger like an Apache, > he always hunted a fight and always fought for a funeral." > > Quantrill, in Edwards' recounting, was "a living, breathing, aggressive, > all-powerful reality...viligant, merciless, a terror by day and a superhuman > if not a supernatural thing when there was upon the earth blackness and > darkness." But even Edwards could not totally refurbish Quantrill's image. > With a notable lack of apology, the writer noted that Quantrill and his men, > when faced with captured Union soldiers who "begged for mercy upon their > knees, heeded the prayer as a wolf might the bleating of a lamb." > > Despite such lapses, however, Edwards' book proved influential, making > Quantrill the focal point of nearly all subsequent historical accounts of the > Kansas-Missouri fighting, at the expense of other, often times more > successful guerrillas like "Bloody Bill" Anderson and George Todd. And the > whitewashed image of Missouri Bushwhackers as Southern cavaliers, whatever > the true historical facts, had proved irresistible to a certain segment of > writers and apologists in the 115 years since Edwards' book. > Cowan Brew > > However you choose to view it, that facts as far as names and events go are > probably the most accurate. The history buffs I know tell me that the Edwards > book may be the most accurate for statistics. It can be purchased at: > OAK HILLS PUBLISHING > P. O. Box 8012 > Springfield, MO 65801 > ohp@pcis.net > You can also search the Internet, ABE books, Amazon finds books that are out > of print for people. I'm not sure about the CD mentioned by my friend. > Hope this helps some of you who are interested. > Phyllis Abbott > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > How do you join Ancestry or do online shopping so that RootsWeb gets a percentage? Start here <http://www.rootsweb.com/~affiliate/> and click on the link for Phyllis--Thank you so much for what you wrote on the MAupins & Quantrill. I am really fascinated by this whole episode which I don't know much about. I appreciate so much! Denise Maupin Watson