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Colonel, Commanding Sixth Tennessee
Cavalry U.S.A.
The site was last updated on March 16, 2008
"Hurst's Wurst"
Book Signing
When: Saturday, March 22, 2008
Where: Jackson-Madison County Public Library (Jackson, TN)
Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Author Kevin D.
McCann will sign copies of his book Hurst's
Wurst: Colonel Fielding Hurst and the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry
U.S.A.
"Hurst's Wurst"
Book Review
March 20, 2008
Andrew Wagenhoffer, host of the blog Civil
War Books and Authors, has posted his
review of my book Hurst's
Wurst. He gives a very fair assessment of it and I appreciate
him posting. it.
"Brownlow's Cussing
Judge"
February 17, 2008
In a case of "I wish I had known it before I
published my book," I stumbled across an interesting article
while searching Newsbank this month. Newsbank is a searchable
treasure trove of historic newspapers. My local library gives free
off site access by simply having a library card. (Check yours, as
they may have a similar benefit.)
Click
here for the blog entry
Hurst Grave Page Added
December 4, 2007
I've added a page with photos and information on Fielding
Hurst's grave.
Judge Hurst and the Search
for Hurst Nation
Part 1
November 25, 2007
I've begun delving into the judicial career of
Fielding Hurst after the war. At the same time, I'm also searching
for evidence of use of the term "Hurst Nation" in the
circuit court record book.
Click
here to read the blog entry
New Photo Revealed!
November 20, 2007
This is big news!
A great-great grandniece of
Fielding Hurst, has unveiled a previously unknown rendering of him
through the Hurst
Nation site. It was owned by his younger sister Margaret
(Hurst) Blakely, and her family and is a treasured family heirloom.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Read
more about it on the Hurst Nation site.
Hurst's Wurst
Available Now!
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The fourth edition of Hurst's
Wurst: Col. Fielding Hurst and the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry
U.S.A. is truly a new edition with
expanded chapters and lots of new material not published in
the earlier editions. It's come a long way from the first
book I published, which was done on my old typewriter and
photocopied at the local Kinko's Copies where I used to
work!
Hurst's Wurst has been my most popular
title to date. I can't tell you how many times I've received
letters and phone calls from people I didn't know asking me
if I had anymore copies left. But for the past few years,
I've had to tell them I had none. Bless him, Brad Borden
(my Hurst comrade over at www.hurstnation.com),
was among the most persistent!
But like many writers who look back on
their past work, I knew I could do a better job and I didn't
want to release what I felt was an inferior narrative. I
wrote Hurst's Wurst while I was in college (or maybe just
after) and there were parts of it that I read 12 years later
and just cringed! So not only did I want a revised edition
to look better, I also wanted it to read better too.
Hopefully I'm a few years wiser and a bit more articulate
now!
I've also tried to broaden my focus a
little. The first three editions largely focused on what the
Sixth Tennessee Cavalry did as a group. I've tried to expand
it to explain what Southern Unionists as a whole were going
through before, during, and after the war. I've also devoted
a new chapter entitled "Guerrillas In The Midst"
to the guerrilla warfare that was going on in southwest
Tennessee. (Remember the movie with Sigourney Weaver back in
the 80's, "Gorillas in the Mist"? It was a little
play on words I couldn't resist.) It has been a largely
ignored part of the Civil War in West Tennessee.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me
along the way. The wait is almost over!
Check the Hurst's Wurst
page for details!
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