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The first edited edition of a Union soldier’s remarkable memoir, offering a rare point of view on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War
Even as tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of the Union men who battled them. This edition of John R. Kelso’s Civil War memoir presents a firsthand account of an strange man’s ordinary battlefield experiences at the side of his evolving interpretation of what the bloody struggle meant.
A former Methodist preacher and Missouri schoolteacher, Kelso served as a Union Army foot soldier, cavalry officer, guerilla fighter, and spy. To start with shaped by a belief in the Founding Fathers’ republic and a disdain for the slave-holding aristocracy, Kelso became driven by revenge after pro-Southern neighbors stole his property, burned down his house, and drove his friends and family from their homes. Interweaving Kelso’s compelling voice with historian Christopher Grasso’s insightful observation, this fascinating work charts the transformation of an on a regular basis citizen into a man the Union hailed as a hero and Confederate sympathizers known as a monster.
Even as tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of the Union men who battled them. This edition of John R. Kelso’s Civil War memoir presents a firsthand account of an strange man’s ordinary battlefield experiences at the side of his evolving interpretation of what the bloody struggle meant.
A former Methodist preacher and Missouri schoolteacher, Kelso served as a Union Army foot soldier, cavalry officer, guerilla fighter, and spy. To start with shaped by a belief in the Founding Fathers’ republic and a disdain for the slave-holding aristocracy, Kelso became driven by revenge after pro-Southern neighbors stole his property, burned down his house, and drove his friends and family from their homes. Interweaving Kelso’s compelling voice with historian Christopher Grasso’s insightful observation, this fascinating work charts the transformation of an on a regular basis citizen into a man the Union hailed as a hero and Confederate sympathizers known as a monster.
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