The Missouri in the Civil War Message Board

"Jayhawkers" book review

My review of board contributor Bryce Benedict's book "Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane" is now up.

excerpt:
"U.S. Senator from Kansas James Henry Lane has been the subject of two recent biographies, by Robert Collins and Ian Michael Spurgeon1. While both works delve into Lane’s personal and political life, neither examines the senator’s military exploits in detail. Happily for Trans-Mississippi theater historians and students everywhere, the publication of Bryce Benedict’s "Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane" marks the first scholarly effort at filling this not inconsiderable gap in our collective knowledge about this (in)famous unit and its 1861-62 operations along the lower Missouri-Kansas border."

See the rest at: http://cwba.blogspot.com/2009/06/benedict-jayhawkers-civil-war-brigade.html

Nice work, Bryce.

Drew