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Confederate Outlaw - Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia (Paperback)
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Confederate Outlaw - Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia (Paperback)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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List price R681
Loot Price R568
Discovery Miles 5 680
You Save R113 (17%)
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In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate
guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three
loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long
remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the
Confederacy, Ferguson has often been dismissed by historians as a
cold-blooded killer. In Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the
Civil War in Appalachia, biographer Brian D. McKnight demonstrates
how such a simple judgment ignores the complexity of this legendary
character. In his analysis, McKnight maintains that Ferguson fought
the war on personal terms and with an Old Testament mentality
regarding the righteousness of his cause. He believed that friends
were friends and enemies were enemies-no middle ground existed. As
a result, he killed prewar comrades as well as longtime adversaries
without regret, all the while knowing that he might one day face
his own brother, who served as a Union scout. Ferguson's continued
popularity demonstrates that his bloody legend did not die on the
gallows. Widespread rumors endured of his last-minute escape from
justice, and over time, the borderland terrorist emerged as a folk
hero for many southerners. Numerous authors resurrected and
romanticized his story for popular audiences, and even Hollywood
used Ferguson's life to create the composite role played by Clint
Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales. McKnight's study deftly
separates the myths from reality and weaves a thoughtful,
captivating, and accurate portrait of the Confederacy's most
celebrated guerrilla. An impeccably researched biography,
Confederate Outlaw offers an abundance of insight into Ferguson's
wartime motivations, actions, and tactics, and also describes
borderland loyalties, guerrilla operations, and military
retribution. McKnight concludes that Ferguson, and other irregular
warriors operating during the Civil War, saw the conflict as far
more of a personal battle than a political one.
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