Bøker av Ian Michael Spurgeon

The men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. This is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War.

With his wild countenance, emotional rhetoric, and outrageous statements, James Henry Lane was a volatile figure in a hotbed of controversy. Taking readers from the halls of Congress to the bloody plains of Kansas and Missouri, this book challenges prevailing views of Lane as a self-serving demagogue.