About the Author

Brian D. McKnight, professor of history at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, is the author of Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia and coeditor of The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War.

Reviews

"Confederate Outlaw is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on guerrilla violence during the Civil War. . . . Students of the Civil War and Appalachian history should read this lucid and provocative book."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"The strength of McKnight's work is his willingness to go beyond a simple blow-by-blow description of Ferguson's violent wartime career to probe his complex nature."--Journal of East Tennessee History