Delivered Under Fire

Silver Medal Winner for the 2024 IPPY Award in Biography Silver Medal Winner for the 2024 IPPY Award in U.S. History During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war, his swift response to Ku Klux Klan violence sparked passage of a landmark civil rights law, though he was not a politician. When he died in 1888 newspapers reported his death from co