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by Richard Taylor

Author: Richard Taylor
Subcategory: Genre Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky (November 24, 2006)
Pages: 360 pages
Category: Fiction and Literature
Rating: 4.6
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p. cm. - (Kentucky voices) ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2423-0 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8131-2423-9 (alk. paper) 1. Clarke, Marcellus Jerome, 1844-1865-Fiction. 2. United States-History -Civil War, 1861-1865-Fiction.

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The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have turned neighbors into enemies . Several likenesses of Marcellus Jerome Clarke, aka Sue Mundy, survive him. All are daguerreotypes taken during the war years, most between 1864 and the early months of 1865.

The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have turned neighbors into enemies and once-proud soldiers into drif. The best presents a boyish figure seated-slumped, really-on a simple chair, right leg crossed over left knee, booted ankle resting forward on the cap of the knee, too far forward for comfort, strained momentarily for the eye of posterity, obviously a pose.

The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have turned neighbors into enemies and once-proud soldiers into drifters, thieves, and outlaws.

Richard Taylor is professor and Resident Creative Writer at Kentucky State University. Richard Taylor's work of historical fiction, Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War, brings to light the chaotic setting of guerrilla warfare in Kentucky. Taylor develops an enlightening narrative. "Richard Taylor's work of historical fiction, Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War, brings to light the chaotic setting of guerrilla warfare in Kentucky.

The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have . Richard Taylor is professor and Resident Creative Writer at Kentucky State University

The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have turned neighbors into enemies and once-proud soldiers into drifters, thieves, and outlaws. Stephen Gano Burbridge, radical Republican and military commander of the district of Kentucky, has declared his own war on this new class of marauding guerrillas, and his weekly executions at Louisville's public commons draw both crowds and widespread criticism. Richard Taylor is professor and Resident Creative Writer at Kentucky State University. A former poet laureate for Kentucky, Taylor has written several books, including Bluegrass, Earth Bones, Girty and Stone Eye. Ler mais.

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Richard Taylor seamlessly joins narrative and history to tell the compelling story of the Civil War in a state dangerously divided, neighbor against neighbor. Kentucky Voices (Paperback). University Press of Kentucky.

These citations may not conform precisely to your selected citation style. Please use this display as a guideline and modify as needed. Main Author: Taylor, Richard. Series: Kentucky voices. Topics: FICTION - Historical.

October 11, 1864. The Civil War rages on in Kentucky, where Union and Confederate loyalties have turned neighbors into enemies and once-proud soldiers into drifters, thieves, and outlaws. Stephen Gano Burbridge, radical Republican and military commander of the district of Kentucky, has declared his own war on this new class of marauding guerrillas, and his weekly executions at Louisville's public commons draw both crowds and widespread criticism. In this time of fear and division, a Kentucky journalist created a legend: Sue Mundy, female guerrilla, a "she-devil" and "tigress" who was leading her band of outlaws across the state in an orgy of greed and bloodshed. Though the "Sue Mundy" of the papers was created as an affront to embarrass Union authorities, the man behind the woman―twenty-year-old Marcellus Jerome Clarke―was later brought to account for "her" crimes. Historians have pieced together clues about this orphan from southern Kentucky whose idealism and later disillusionment led him to his fate, but Richard Taylor's work of imagination makes this history flesh―an exciting story of the Civil War told from the perspective of one of its most enigmatic figures. Sue Mundy opens in 1861, when fifteen-year-old Jerome Clark, called "Jarom," leaves everyone he loves―his aunt, his adopted family, his sweetheart―to follow his older cousin into the Confederate infantry. There, confronted by the hardships of what he slowly understands is a losing fight, Jarom's romanticized notions of adventure and heroism are crushed under the burdens of hunger, sleepless nights, and mindless atrocities. Captured by Union forces and imprisoned in Camp Morton, Jarom makes a daring escape, crossing the Ohio River under cover of darkness and finding refuge and refreshed patriotic zeal first in Adam R. Johnson's Tenth Kentucky Calvary, then among General John Hunt Morgan's infamous brigade. Morgan's shocking death in 1864 proves a bad omen for the Confederate cause, as members of his group of raiders scatter―some to rejoin organized forces, others, like Jarom, to opt for another, less civilized sort of warfare. Displaced and desperate for revenge, Jarom and his band of Confederate deserters wreak havoc in Kentucky: a rampage of senseless murder and thievery in an uncertain quest to inflict punishment on Union sympathizers. Long-locked and clean-shaven, Jarom is mistakenly labeled female by the media―but Sue Mundy is about more than the transformation of a man into a woman, and then a legend. Ironically, Sue Mundy becomes the persona by which Jarom's darkest self is revealed, and perhaps redeemed.