M.A. Kleen

My latest article is up on the Emerging Civil War blog! This is the first of what I hope to be a series on the Charleston, Illinois Riot of 1864.

ECW welcomes back guest author M.A. Kleen. In late April 1864, members of the 54th Illinois Infantry Regiment gathered around a small-town courthouse, waiting to board a train back to their unit, when an argument with resentful civilians erupted into gunfire. The clash, which left nine dead and twelve wounded, occurred not in the South, […]

The Making of a Riot: Political Violence in Civil War Illinois