Good Hater: George Henry Hoyt's War on Slavery by Bill Hoyt
While rising from Second Lieutenant at the war's beginning to Brevet Brigadier General at its end, Hoyt consistently treated the Union army as a mere tool for pursuing abolition through direct action. As the chief of the Red Legs - Kansas' most feared and hated irregular outfit - Hoyt used the power of the Union to punish regular Missourians for the evils of slavery.
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