Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy - The Civil Wars of John R. Kelso

The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist.

List of contents

• Introduction: John R. Kelso and American Manhood


• 1: I Will Rule


• 2: Hauntings


• 3: Hell Town


• 4: Wanderer upon the Earth


• 5: Words on Fire


• 6: Who the Devil Are You, Anyway?


• 7: My Dear Susie, the Bullets Began to Scream


• 8: Thieves, Cut-Throats, and Confederates


• 9: I Am Kelso


• 10: Hero of the South West


• 11: Electioneering with a Big Shotgun


• 12: Captain Kelso Goes to Congress


• 13: The Great Mistake


• 14: The Cold, Dark River


• 15: Great Infidel


• 16: Mirages


• 17: Heaven on Earth


• Conclusion: Representative Man


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Christopher Grasso is Professor of History at the College of William & Mary and was the editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He is the author of A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut and Skepticism and American Faith from the Revolution to the Civil War and the editor of Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil War.

Summary

The epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist.

Additional text

An exceptional narrative of one man's journey through the Civil War era...Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy is the product of remarkably broad and deep research and reading... A first-rate story of the Civil War in Southwest Missouri; Reconstruction politics; and the fascinating philosophical explorations of a man trying to make sense of love, death, heroism, and loss as he made his way across the dusty world of the Gilded Age American West.

Product details

• Authors: Grasso , Christopher Grasso, Christopher (Professor of History Grasso, Grasso Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780197547328
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754732-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, military history, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Christianity, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Battles & campaigns, Biography: historical, political and military, Specific wars and campaigns, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General