Champ Ferguson: Confederate Guerilla

by Thurman Sensing

Overview

By the end of the Civil War, Champ Ferguson was accused of personally killing fifty-three people, including children, the elderly, and wounded soldiers in their hospital beds. Up in the Cumberland Mountain districts of Tennessee and Kentucky families had chosen sides at the start of the war and then pursued a private war with each other. Champ Ferguson was the most infamous of their number, 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.

He was one of two Confederates ever executed by the Union Army, if, indeed, he was actually executed.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826512536
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	06/01/1942
Series:	Vintage Vanderbilt
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Thurman Sensing (1900-1971) was vice president of the Southern States Industrial Council. A well-respected figure in Nashville, he was often asked by local papers for comment on everything from industry to the loosening of Danish pornography laws.
 

Editorial Reviews

Although Ferguson survived the Civil War unscathed and offered to surrender to Federal authorities, Ferguson's crimes had assumed so awful a stature that the Military Division of Tennessee brushed aside his offer, arrested him, tried him, and hung him on October 20, 1865. But the trial of Ferguson is important for Sensing in another way, for the trial becomes a lens through which we peer at the bitter, remorseless nature of guerilla warfare.
—Civil War Book Exchange

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