The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West

(True West) ... Matthew Christopher Hulbert’s The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West (University of Georgia Press, $84.95/$29.95), is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary history of the rise of American guerrilla warfare in the Missouri-Kansas conflict in the years leading up to President Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860, and the role of guerilla fighters and bushwhackers throughout the War Between the States.
Hulbert, a lecturer in the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy, does not trap his research and conclusions in the 19th century, but pursues conclusions to his thesis from a 21st-century perspective. Continued