Description
Lyman Gibson Bennett (1832–1904) had a curious mind and a keen sense of humor. A writer of considerable energy and intelligence, Bennett’s wartime diaries recount his diverse and wide-ranging military record, while a postwar account details, among other things, his labors to recruit “Mountain Feds” in the Ozarks.
Until her retirement, M. Jane Johansson was professor of history at Rogers State University. She edited Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862–1864 and Albert C. Ellithorpe: The First Indian Home Guards and the Civil War on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier.