The Death Of Quantrill Guerrilla Marion Potter
Source: Provost Marshal Records
The Death of Guerrilla Marion Potter
Marion Potter, with a guerrilla group, was eating breakfast one morning
in the spring of 1865 in Waverly, Mo. Federals dashed up to seize their horses.
They fought their way to their horses and escaped. Marion and a man whose wife
was living with other refugees in an old house in the area, were wounded. The
women hid them in the attic, but a heavy storm blew the building down, killed
the other man (possibly the husband of Rachel Harris), broke Marion’s leg and
rendered him unconscious. Union troops took him to Marshall, Mo., where, still
unconscious, he was taken to the cemetery on his casket and was shot and
buried.
The people living in the house were refugees (families of Guerrillas)
from Johnson County, Mo. They were Caroline, Nancy, America, Catherine,
Elizabeth, Marie, and Peter Bivin, and Rachel, Rowland and Emma Harris.
The Provost Marshal Report
James R. Baker
Jr.