Christopher Grasso's biography of John KelsoDL"a teacher, a preacher, a soldier, and a spy; a congressman...a Radical Republican...a Methodist...an atheist"- is a good book, and you should read it.
Christopher Grasso is Professor of History at the College of William & Mary and was the editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He is the author of A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut and Skepticism and American Faith from the Revolution to the Civil War and the editor of Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso's Civil War.