On April 16, 1884, Kentucky Superior Court Judge Richard Reid
visited attorney John Jay Cornelisons office to discuss a legal
matter. When he arrived, Cornelison accused the unsuspecting Reid
of having injured his honor and then struck him repeatedly with a
large hickory cane. He pursued Reid onto the street, where he began
to lash him with a cowhide whip. That seemingly minor event in the
small town of Mount Sterling became front-page news. The press,
both local and national, raised questions regarding Reid's
response. Would he react as a Christian gentleman, a man of the
law, and let the legal system take its course, or would he follow
the manly dictates of the code of honor and kill his assailant?
James C. Klotter crafts a detective story, using historical,
medical, legal, and psychological clues to piece together answers
to the tragedy that followed. This unfolding drama of an individual
versus his surrounding culture reveals much about state, regional,
and national temperaments in the late nineteenth century and shows
the tensions between traditional southern mores and new secular and
commercial forces. It also explores the conventions, values, and
confusions of the archaic code of honor that ruled the South and
Reid's community in particular.
With commanding prose, Klotter draws the reader into the social
and judicial world of post -- Civil War Kentucky and into the
ageless question of choosing between forgiveness and for-bearance
or revenge and retribution.
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