James Monroe Wells (1837–1918) was an author, Union Army officer, and politician.
James Daniel Lynch responded with an account blaming Radical Republicans titled Kemper County Vindicated, And a Peep at Radical Rule in Mississippi.
[2] Wells was born in Erie County, New York and moved to Michigan with his family at age two.
He served in the Union Army as a cavalry officer.
[2] He moved to Idaho in 1884 and served as a state senator in its first legislature.