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Ramage, James Alfred was born on May 6, 1940 in Paducah, Kentucky, United States. Son of Willis Newman and Lora Helen Ramage.
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When John Wesley Hunt came to Kentucky in 1794, his plan was to open a general store in Lexington. A canny judge of business opportunity, he soon expanded his activities and became one of the responsible figures of Kentucky banking and finance. In another kind of venture, he imported fine stallions from the East, significantly improving the bloodlines of thoroughbreds and trotters in the Bluegrass. John Wesley Hunt tells the story of Hunt's business exploits against the background of life in frontier Lexington. James A. Ramage reveals how his innovative solutions to the financial problems of the frontier gave rise to the prosperity and culture of Lexington in the nineteenth century
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Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on the most exhilarating of military activities: the overnight raid. Mosby possessed a genius for guerrilla and psychological warfare, taking control of the dark to make himself the "Gray Ghost" of Union nightmares. Gray Ghost, the first full biography of Confederate raider John Mosby, reveals new information on every aspect of Mosby's life, providing the first analysis of his impact on the Civil War from the Union viewpoint.
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"The first full biography of the famous Confederate cavalry leader from Kentucky. It provides fresh, unpublished information on all aspects of Morgan's life and furnishes a new perspective on the Civil War. In a highly original interpretation, Ramage portrays Morgan as a revolutionary guerrilla chief. Using the tactics of guerrilla war and making his own rules, Morgan terrorized federal provost marshals in an independent campaign to protect Confederate sympathizers in Kentucky. He killed pickets and used the enemy uniform as a disguise, frequently masquerading as a Union officer. Employing civilians in the fighting, he set off a cycle of escalating violence which culminated in an unauthorized policy of retaliation by his command on the property of Union civilians. To many southerners, Morgan became the prime model of a popular movement for guerrilla warfare that led to the Partisan Ranger Act. For Confederates he was the ideal romantic cavalier, the "Francis Marion of the War," and they make him a folk hero who was especially adored by women. Discerning fact from folklore, Ramage describes Morgan's strengths and weaknesses and suggests that excessive dependence on his war bride contributed to his declining success. The author throws new light on the Indiana-Ohio Raid and the suspenseful escape from the Ohio Penitentiary and unravels the mysteries around Morgan's death in Greeneville, Tennessee. Rebel Raider also shows how in the popular mind John Hunt Morgan was deified as a symbol of the Lost Cause.
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Ramage, James Alfred was born on May 6, 1940 in Paducah, Kentucky, United States. Son of Willis Newman and Lora Helen Ramage.
Bachelor of Science, Murray State University, Kentucky, 1965. Master of Arts, Murray State University, Kentucky, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, University Kentucky, Lexington, 1972.
Teacher history Mehlville High School, St. Louis, 1965—1967. Professor history Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, since 1972. With United States Air Force, 1958-1962.
(Confederate John Singleton Mosby forged his reputation on...)
(When John Wesley Hunt came to Kentucky in 1794, his plan ...)
("The first full biography of the famous Confederate caval...)
Chair Recreation Commission City of Highland Heights, Kentucky, 1975—1981. Member of Kentucky History Society (chair national advisory committee 2010), Southern History Association, Phi Alpha Theta (faculty advisor (Northern Kentucky University chapter) 1985—2004, national council member 2002-2003, national vice president 2006-2008, national president 2008-2010).
Married Judith Ann Winstead, June 6, 1964. 1 child Andrea Susanne Watkins.
