Kevin H Siepel

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2008

Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

Rebel, a steady seller since 1983, is the first complete biography of the Confederacy’s best-known partisan commander, John Singleton Mosby, the “Gray Ghost.” A practicing attorney in Virginia and at first a reluctant soldier, in 1861 Mosby took to soldiering with a vengeance, becoming one of the Confederate army’s highest-profile officers, known especially for his cavalry...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2006

Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier

This is the story of the settlement and growth of western New York state from the War of 1812 to the 1890s using the never-before-published journal of an early settler as its central thread. Joseph Bennett, farmer, builder, and entrepreneur, also held political office at the town, county, and state level. From 1814 naval action on Lake Champlain through pioneer life on the Niagara...

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Feb.12.1984

Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

Published by Washington Post Book World

In Rebel, Kevin H. Siepel has written the fullest biography of the celebrated Confederate partisan leader John S. Mosby that we are likely to get. The guerrilla warfare...

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Kevin H Siepel writes on personal, historical, and scientific themes. His benchmark biography of Confederate hero John Singleton Mosby has proven durable, as have a number of his essays and poems. He has been published in the Christian Science Monitor,...

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