QUANTRILL'S
THE KE A
AND OTHER GAY ADVENTURES
BOYFRIEND
by Harry Otis, author
published
in 1959
by
ONE,
Incorporated
a popular short-story collection
now out of print.
Sue-Marcu Jerome Clarke was born in Kentucky in 1845. At 16 he joined the Confederate army. He fought at the battle of Donelson on the Cumberland. Cut off at Cynthiana, he went under ground and took up guerilla warfare. He named himself Captain and was very resourceful with gun and knife. At 19 a seasoned warrior, he learned the location of Federal troops and supply trains. He kept away from cities
where women might recognize him as
a man.
One contemporary has left this picture "a quiet spoken dandy, with his in love knots each 6 in. long, a hand like a school girl and a waist like a women. As a spy he came and went as the wind blew, so many were his shapes and disguises, so perfect under control were his speech and bearing, that in some quarters his identity was
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