Bloody Dawn: The lawrence massacre

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Based on book "The Story of the Lawrence Massacre" by Thomas Goodrich ", Bloody Dawn tells the story of the raid led by William Quantrill on Lawrence, KS on August 21, 1863.  For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East.  At Quantrill’s command, the horrors of that war were brought directly into their homes.  The attack began at dawn.  When it was over, more than 150 townsmen were dead and most of the settlement burned to the ground. The story that unfolds reveals an event unlike anything our nation has experienced before or since.