John Clark was not one of the original protagonists in The Three-Cornered War. Clark was a surveyor, lawyer, and landowner in Illinois when the war began. Too old to shoulder a rifle, he hoped to serve the Union in other ways. President Lincoln appointed him surveyor-general of New Mexico Territory in the summer . . .
Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis was the first person I wrote about in The Three-Cornered War. I found his wartime diary in the Western History Collection at the Denver Public Library during my initial research trip for this project, in 2010. It is a small, leather-bound volume, and Ickis wrote over his initial penciled . . .
