Quantrill and Guerrilla Warfare

“Quantrill believed that guerrilla warfare was superior. Guerrilla warfare empowered the individual man. It offered soldiers a chance to fight close to home, eat home-cooked food, wear sturdy, comfortable well-fitted homemade clothes, ride a horse, choose their weaponry, and make tactical decisions for themselves.
Partisan warfare was more in accord with expectations of white men in the antebellum South than “conventional” or “regular” warfare, which stripped men of their identities and rights.”- Beilein

“Quantrill believed that guerrilla warfare was superior. Guerrilla warfare empowered the individual man. It offered soldiers a chance to fight close to home, eat home-cooked food, wear sturdy, comfortable well-fitted homemade clothes, ride a horse, choose their weaponry, and make… pic.twitter.com/pUsiDIeCTB

— Diomedes Appreciator (@HomericFuturist) July 14, 2026

By NC ScoutPublished On: July 15, 2026Categories: Uncategorized0 Comments

About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .