Saturday, October 5, 2013

October 6, 1863---The Death of Johnny Fry



OCTOBER 6, 1863:   

The Battle of Fort Baxter (The Battle of Fort Blair; The Fort Baxter Massacre). Quantrill’s Raiders, numbering 400, attack the Union outpost of Fort Baxter, Kansas, and are driven off. While retreating, they fall upon a small Union column of 150 lightly-armed men who are accompanying Major General James G. Blunt to his new Kansas command post. Quantrill orders the Union soldiers butchered. Only a few escape, including Blunt. One of the dead is Johnny Fry, the original rider of the Pony Express. 


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