Colonel James M. Corns, the second edition of the book, now includes excerpts from issues of the Kanawha Valley Star in 1860 and 1861, which reflected the local attitudes concerning Abraham Lincoln before the election and the War. This information is some of what influenced James M. Corns to rally to the Confederate cause and risk everything to have a chance to taste freedom in a new country, free from the tyranny that the United States of America had become. James M. Corns, born in 1830, was descended from prominent families in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire, England. While living as a...