Draft:David C. Rankin

We should have an entry about Rufus Kinsley / Rufus B. Kinsley and his diary with a brief sketch of the historian and author who edited and wrote an essay introducing it.

David C. Rankin is / was an instructor of history at Oberlin College in Ohio and an author. He edited Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War about Rufus Kinsley (1831–1911) and his diary. One reviewer was laudatory though noting a few mistakes and calling for more maps of the areas discussed.

He edited and wrote the introduction to My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune; A Memoir of the Civil War Era by Jean-Charles Houzeau.

Rufus B. Kinsley a relative? One and the same? Rufus Kinsley biggest business man in Newport in 1858.