Photo of the Samuels House near the site of the "Final Civil War Surrender" Marker.
This file appears in: Marker #2644 Final Civil War Surrender / Reconstruction-Era Banditry
This file appears in: Marker #2644 Final Civil War Surrender / Reconstruction-Era Banditry
Marker #2644 Final Civil War Surrender / Reconstruction-Era Banditry
On the morning of July 26, 1865, sixteen men walked into the small hamlet of Samuels Depot. They were Missourians formerly under the command Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill. Only a few weeks earlier, on June 6, Quantrill had died…