PDF Above a Common Soldier: Frank and Mary Clarke in the American West and Civil War from Their Letters; 1847-1872 by Darlis A. Miller in History

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This amazing story of bloody guerilla warfare along the Kentucky-Tennessee border presents a tale and a protagonist unique in the annals of the Civil War.When the Civil War began in 1861; the men of the Cumberland Mountain districts chose sides and pursued a private war with each other. The most infamous of their number was Champ Ferguson. In this classic study; Thurman Sensing provides the only available book-length account of Ferguson's brutal deeds; his capture; his trial; his execution at the end of the war; and the legendary ruse by which he allegedly escaped hanging. Long regarded as a collector's item by Civil War buffs; the reappearance of this book in a paperback edition will be welcomed by many.