Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign Review

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Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign ReviewQuantrill in Texas is half the size of Paul R. Petersen's excellent primary work -- 'Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla Warrior', q.v. It contains redundant material at the beginning (i.e., to the first book), a hodge-podge of disorganised author's note card material in the middle, and an end which does remind the reader that Paul R. Peterson, a native of Quantrill's geographic domain, really can write superbly on William Clarke Quantrill. But why, with all the other redundant material, the author omits Col. Quantrill's tender care by the Sisters of Charity and two priests, and conversion to the Church of Rome, puzzles one; it is one more substantiation of the high esteem which the Catholic Church held for the South and the vital hospital work which they did internationally for countless soldiers without regard to politics. (The high regard which the South held for her Catholic, as also Hebrew, citizens is once again demonstrated, and evident the more one reads the primary sources, like the journals of hospital matrons Kate Cumming and Phoebe Levy Yates Pember, and of Kate Stone and other Southern ladies.)
Hopefully the author will eventually redact the primary work to include this supplemental material and any other which he may have discovered in the interim. For the Quantrill, par excellence, his primary work, '... Missouri', is not only a treasure trove of material, it is the labour-of-love of a superbly capable writer. The photographs & maps included in the Texas book, however, also are of value. I cannot recommend [his other work] 'Quantrill of Missouri' too highly, how-be-it; it is a genuine 5-star work, unlike its successor here -- extremely well researched, organised, and authored.
Those who are hoping in a Quantrill trilogy of the first order, as another reviewer intimated, will be disappointed in the second instllment. Rather than a trilogy, I would respectfully urge Mr Petersen to consolidate all the new material, and this present work, into a primary, master, stand-alone 'Quantrill of Missouri'. Mr Petersen is a military man, a marine trained in guerrilla warfare, whose insights into battle technique are never-the-less be of some added value in his Texas book -- thus rating an extra star. Whatever you do, won't you first make sure you have 'Quantrill of Missouri' -- and then consider adding this second, 'Texas', Quantrill, for what it may be worth?Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign Overview

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