“A significant contribution to the literature.”—Kansas History
“A readable, well-researched biography that shows us a man so steadfast in his convictions that he risked his own life more than once and brought hardship upon his wife, Fannie, and their large family.”—New Mexico Historical Review
“A first-rate, balanced biography of a gallant and admirable individual. Anyone interested in the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, or the history of New Mexico or Kansas, will want this well-crafted, indispensable, and definitive biography of the intrepid Ross.”—Great Plains Quarterly
"Ross' life is really a study in the consequences of integrity and conviction."—Mark A. Weitz, author of More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army