![]() ![]() ![]() Only Champ Ferguson and Henry Wirz ever found the hangman’s noose for their wartime deeds. As dictated by the actions of the Union high command, national postwar practice was to allow Confederates – nearly all Confederates – to return to their peaceful lives. Given the brutality and bloodshed associated with the raid on Lawrence and the guerrilla war more generally, the outcome of this trial may seem surprising. From there, George and Nancy Maddox and the unnamed friends got the hell out of Dodge-that is, Ottawa-before news of the verdict hit the streets. ![]() She sat on horseback waiting for her husband holding the reins to his mount. ![]() Then, ever so furtively, Maddox met his wife, Nancy, behind the courthouse. It was reported that following the reading of the verdict, he shook the hands of his attorney and a handful of unnamed friends who sat behind him at trial. Indicted for murder during the war for killing a man named John Zane Evans during Quantrill’s infamous 1863 raid on Lawrence, Maddox was arrested nearly two years later and transported to Kansas for trial. During the Civil War, Maddox served as a guerrilla under William Clarke Quantrill. Just after seven o’clock on the night of April, 2 1867, George Maddox slipped out the backdoor of the Ottawa, Kansas, courthouse, hopped on his horse, and rode for Missouri. ![]()
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