Gone to Kingdom: Being the Personal Recollections of a Missouri Bushwacker A Memoir of the Amerian Civil War in the Border States by Ezra "Blackie"Douglas

Two young men come of age on the Missouri-Kansas border as the Civil War rages around them. In his memoirs of the experience Ezra "Blackie" Douglas tells of how he and his best friend join the Missouri Partisan Rangers and learn firsthand the horrors of 'war to the knife.' Along the way they will associate with some of the war's most controversial figures such as William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, brothers Frank and Jesse James, and find themselves embroiled in the horrific raid on Lawrence, Kansas, It is a brutal and unforgiving environment and a difficult way into adulthood.