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Major John Newman Edwards (January 4, 1839 – May 4, 1889) was famed General Joseph O. Shelby's adjutant during the American Civil War, an author, and a pro-Confederate journalist who founded the Kansas City Times.
John Newman Edwards was a former Confederate soldier and editor who helped create the myth of Jesse James as a noble Southern Robin Hood. He used his newspaper, The Kansas City Times, to glorify the outlaw and attack the Republican government after the Civil War.
Jul 23, 2007 · John N. Edwards: biography, memoirs, reminiscences and recollections : his brilliant career as soldier, author, and journalist : choice collection of his most notable and interesting newspaper articles, together with some unpublished poems and many private letters.
Jul 10, 2002 · Major John Newman Edwards, CSA, was General Jo. Shelby’s adjutant and chronicler. At war’s end Edwards chose to share Mexican exile with Shelby as well. When they returned to the U.S. in 1867, Edwards rapidly published three large volumes of wartime experiences.
Nov 5, 2015 · Jesse James had his own publicity agent—John Newman Edwards. A Confederate veteran, Edwards became a newspaperman after the war, starting the Kansas City Times in 1868.
John Newman Edwards is customarily associated with Civil War guerrillas and postbellum outlaws. In reality he was neither. But as one of the American West’s iconic newspaper editorialists, he was the man who made them famous.
John Newman Edwards died of heart disease May 4, 1889, in Jefferson City and is buried in Dover. Elizabeth Davis was born and raised in Cooper County, Missouri, and has written...
