Ella Mayfield's PawPaw Militia-A Civil War Saga in Vernon Co. Mo.

This book is a fact based fiction. The characters are real as are the battles and devestation created in Vernon County, Mo. during the Civil War. Ella Mayfield was one member in a family that was considered heros for their efforts to ride the area of Jawhawkers and Union soldiers. All the homesteaders wanted was to live in peace and farm their homesteads. They didn't care about slaverly, but when pressed to fight they sided with the Confederacy.
Ella Mayfield was strong willed and independent. She feared for her widowed mother and siblings and rightly so, because she lost many of her family members in battle. Ella was a crack shot and a superb horsewoman which won the respect of the men in her band. Her exploits as a bushwhacker and spy are ledgendary.