| Champ Ferguson: Confederate Guerilla Contributor(s): Sensing, Thurman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826512534 ISBN-13: 9780826512536 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1942 Annotation: When the Civil War began in 1861, the men of the Cumberland Mountain districts of Tennessee and Kentucky chose sides and pursued a private war with each other. Often motivated by vengeance and vendetta, their armed bands had only irregular connections with either the Union or Confederate armies. Their fighting was deadly, with little regard for rules of engagement and with little quarter given. The most infamous of their number was Champ Ferguson, whose guerilla exploits were interspersed with periods of service as a scout for Morgan's Men and as a member of Joe Wheeler's cavalry. By the end of the Civil War, Ferguson was accused of personally killing fifty-three people, including children, the elderly and wounded soldiers in their hospital beds. In this classic study, first published in 1942, Thurman Sensing provides the only available book-length account of Champ Ferguson's brutal deeds, his capture, his trial and his execution (or according to one version, the ruse by which he escaped hanging) at the end of the war. Though there is little that is admirable in Champ Ferguson's story, this fascinating account of his life, long regarded as a collector's item by Civil War buffs, adds a unique dimension to our understanding of the horrors of America's Civil War. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - General - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 973.7 |
| LCCN: 42018672 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.16" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Topical - Civil War - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - Mid-South |
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| Publisher Description: By the end of the Civil War, Champ Ferguson was accused of personally killing fifty-three people, including children, the elderly, and wounded soldiers in their hospital beds. Up in the Cumberland Mountain districts of Tennessee and Kentucky families had chosen sides at the start of the war and then pursued a private war with each other. Champ Ferguson was the most infamous of their number, whose guerilla exploits were interspersed with periods of service as a scout for Morgan's Men and as a member of Joe Wheeler's cavalry. He was one of two Confederates ever executed by the Union Army, if, indeed, he was actually executed. |