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.
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