William H Gregg Author

William H. Gregg (1838–1916) was born in Jackson County, Missouri. He was married to Elizabeth Eleanor Hook; they had five children. During the Civil War, Gregg served under William Clarke Quantrill from late 1861 to early 1964. After leaving Quantrill's band, he joined General Joe Shelby and was made a captain in Shanks’s Brigade. After the war Gregg returned to his farm in Jackson County and served as a deputy sheriff, during which time he wrote of his experiences with Quantrill.

Joseph M. Beilein Jr is an assistant professor of history at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He is the author of Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri and coeditor of The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth.