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John P. Burch
Remembered today mainly for a rare Civil War title, this little-documented writer is associated with a 1923 Vega, Texas edition of a book on guerrilla leader Charles W. Quantrell. The surviving record suggests an author or publisher working to preserve one strongly partisan frontier-era account.
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About the author
John P. Burch is an obscure historical writer best known for Charles W. Quantrell, a book published in 1923 in Vega, Texas. Bookseller listings, library records, and the Project Gutenberg edition all connect his name with that volume, which presents the recollections of Captain Harrison Trow about guerrilla warfare on the Missouri-Kansas border during the Civil War.
Very little firmly documented biographical information about Burch appears to survive online. Because of that, it is safest to describe him as a little-known early 20th-century author or compiler whose name remains attached to this single Civil War work rather than to claim personal details that cannot be confirmed.
His continued visibility comes less from a known public life than from the afterlife of the book itself, which has been preserved in reprints, library catalogs, and public-domain archives for readers interested in Quantrill, border warfare, and contested Civil War memory.