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Union Guerillas in Civil War Kansas: Jayhawkers and Red Legs by Paul A. Thomas and Matt M. Matthews "The sagas of William Clarke Quantrill, William “Bloody Bill” Anderson, and the James brothers, Frank and Jesse, are well known to fans of the Civil War in the Missouri-Kansas borderlands. Yet the primary adversary of Confederate bushwhackers, the Kansas Jayhawker, has received significantly less historical attention—until now. Through their meticulously researched and clearly-written account of six prominent Jayhawkers, Matthews and Thomas give Unionist guerrillas a new voice in the borderland story and help bring balance to our broader understanding of Civil War guerrilla violence." - Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West (Georgia, 2016) and Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War (Bison Books, 2023)