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Harrison Trow
1843–1925
A former Quantrill raider turned memoirist, he left behind one of the firsthand accounts that helped shape how later readers remembered guerrilla warfare on the Missouri-Kansas border. His writing is vivid, personal, and closely tied to the violent world he lived through.
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About the author
Born in Pittsburgh on October 16, 1843, he moved with his family first to Illinois and then to Missouri while still young. Harrison Trow later became known for his connection to the Civil War fighting on the Missouri-Kansas border and for the recollections he published about that experience.
Trow is best remembered as the coauthor, with John P. Burch, of Charles W. Quantrell: A True History of His Guerrilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border During the Civil War of 1861 to 1865. The book presents his perspective as a participant and helped preserve a controversial, intensely personal version of events from that era.
After the war he lived in Blue Springs, Missouri, and moved to Hereford, Texas, in 1901. He died there on February 24, 1925. Because his surviving reputation rests so heavily on wartime memory, his work is especially interesting for readers who want a firsthand voice from one of the most disputed corners of Civil War history.