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A rough business : fighting the Civil War in Missouri Cover Image Book Book

A rough business : fighting the Civil War in Missouri / edited with an introduction by William Garrett Piston.

Piston, William Garrett. (Added Author). Bailey, Anne J. (Added Author). Bradbury, John F. (Added Author). Branch, Mary Emerson. (Added Author). Frizzell, Robert W., 1947- (Added Author). Gerteis, Louis S. (Added Author). Gurley, Bill J., 1959- (Added Author). Harris, Charles F. (Added Author). Hess, Earl J. (Added Author). Hughes, John S., 1954- (Added Author). Kempker, Erin. (Added Author). Kremer, Gary R. (Added Author). Phillips, Christopher. (Added Author). Pitcock, Cynthia DeHaven. (Added Author). Porter, Scott A. (Added Author). Rorvig, Paul. (Added Author). State Historical Society of Missouri. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780981693941
  • ISBN: 0981693946
  • ISBN: 9780981693958
  • ISBN: 0981693954
  • Physical Description: vi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Columbia : State Historical Society of Missouri, 2012.

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General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary
"An anthology of articles from the Missouri Historical Review" - cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / WIlliam Garrett Piston -- Calculated Confederate : Claiborne Fox Jackson and the strategy for secession in Missouri / Christopher Phillips -- Significant Skirmish: The Battle of Boonville, June 17, 1861 / Paul Rorvig -- 'A Friend of the Enemy': Federal Efforts to suppress Disloyalty in St. Louis During the Civil War / Louis S. Gerteis -- 'I Acted From principle': William Marcellus McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon / Cynthia DeHaven Pitcock and Bill J. Gurley -- Union, the War, and Elvira Scott / Erin Kempker -- 'Good War & Wood but the Country is a Miserable Botch' : Flatland Soldiers Confront the Ozarks / John F. Bradbury, Jr. -- The 12th Missouri Infantry: A socio-Military Profile of a Union Regiment / Earl J. Hess -- Texans invade Missouri: The Cape Girardeau Raid / Anne J. Bailey -- Catalyst for Terror: The Collapse of the Women's Prison in Kansas City / Charles F. Harris -- 'Bashi-Bazouks' and Rebels Too: Action at Camden Point, July

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Subject: Missouri > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
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  • 6 of 6 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at De Soto.

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