EDWARD J. CASHIN (1927-2007) was professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History at Augusta State University. His books include The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier (Georgia), which won the 1990 Fraunces Tavern Book Award of the American Revolution Round Table, and Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier (Georgia), which won the 1992 Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award of the Georgia Historical Society.
Cashin has added another graceful study to his corpus of works
strengthening our grasp of the colonial and revolutionary
South.--Journal of Southern History
Cashin's research on Ellis's life is deep and widespread. He has
examined a vast number of original records, printed sources, and
secondary literature, and his bibliography is exhaustive. He writes
well, and his work is handsomely presented by his publisher. This
will be the standard work on Henry Ellis for many years.--Journal
of American History
This book provides much food for thought. It is eminently readable,
making it accessible to both the general and specialized reader.
And it reviews a wealth of historical scholarship without getting
bogged down in academic hair-splitting. But most of all it tells an
interesting story about how a third son of a middle-class landowner
rose to hold positions of importance within the British government
through the force of his intellect and the breadth of his skills.
And after all, telling a good story is what a good biography should
strive to do. Cashin succeeds at that here.--Southern Quarterly
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