James Monroe Wells

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.

View of Andersonville National Cemetery from his autobiography With Touch of Elbow