Cumberland blood: Champ Ferguson's civil warShow full item record
Title | Cumberland blood: Champ Ferguson's civil war |
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Author | Mays, Thomas Davidson |
Date | 1996 |
Genre | Dissertation |
Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
Abstract | Throughout the Civil War, Champ Ferguson and his guerrilla gang fought in the foot hills and mountains of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Champ's enemies were his former friends, neighbors, and even relatives, who had chosen to fight for the Union. Their personal civil war degenerated into a bloody no quarter contest. Ferguson and his guerrillas fought along side some well known Confederate commanders, including General John. Hunt Morgan. By the last year of the war, General Joseph Wheeler attempted to bring Ferguson and his gang into the regular service. Champ rebelled in the army, and the October 1864 Saltville Massacre, in Southwest Virginia, was largely his work. The Confederates charged Ferguson with murder after the massacre, but were unable to bring him to trial by the end of the war. Afterwards, Ferguson continued to raid and kill along the border, and the Federal authorities branded him as an outlaw and refused to grant him parole. The Federals captured and court martialed Ferguson for being a murderer and guerrilla. Ferguson was found guilty and executed, becoming the only Confederate guerrilla prosecuted by the Federal authorities after the war. |
Link | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/33240 |
Department | History |
Advisor | McWhiney, Grady |
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- Doctoral Dissertations [1484]
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