Article: Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. T. J. Stiles. Alfred A. Knopf. [pounds sterling]20.00. 510 pages. ISBN 0-3754-0583-6. This biography of America's most well-known murderer was first published last year in the U.S. The author's purpose is to set James into the historic context within which he grew up and against which he became infamous (or famous). On the whole, the Confederacy's soldiers fought their war for independence with honour and without the savagery which marked some of the Union troops: one recalls Sherman's men as they tore through Georgia. The one great exception was the fighting in Missouri, the 'border state' which had a powerful pro-Confederate ...

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