M.A. Kleen

My latest article is up at Emerging Civil War: Early Civil War Mysteries of Virginia and West Virginia. In this article, I explore four mysteries that have stumped me in my research the Civil War in Virginia and (what would become) West Virginia during the spring and summer of 1861.

• Jacob Dolson Cox’s missing reports from July 1861
• Who killed Henry S. Cornell?
• Who died in the skirmish at Righter’s House?
• Who was John Lott, the “first colored man that shouldered a musket in the Union army”?

Check it out!