Download or read book Central Missouri at War written by Jeremy P Amick and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Missouri possesses a bounty of history regarding brave men and women who have served in the armed forces. Although no work can capture all aspects of the sacrifices made, this compilation presents many of the heroes that have lived among us.

Download or read book A Collection of General Orders of the United States Army District of Central Missouri During the American Civil War written by United States. Army. District of Central Missouri and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inside War written by Michael Fellman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from "inside," drawing on a wealth of first-hand evidence, including letters, diaries, military reports, court-martial transcripts, depositions, and newspaper accounts. He gives us a clear picture of the ideological, social, and economic forces that divided the people and launched the conflict. Along with depicting how both Confederate and Union officials used the guerrilla fighters and their tactics to their own advantage, Fellman describes how ordinary civilian men and women struggled to survive amidst the random terror perpetuated by both sides; what drove the combatants themselves to commit atrocities and vicious acts of vengeance; and how the legend of Jesse James arose from this brutal episode in the American Civil War.

Download or read book Reading Interests in Eastern and Central Missouri Prior to the Civil War written by Harold Holmes Dugger and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Civil War in Johnson County Missouri written by Bruce E. Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Civil War in Missouri written by Louis S. Gerteis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Combined with the state’s distance from both sides’ capitals, this misguided impression paints Missouri as an insignificant player in the nation’s struggle to define itself. Such notions, however, are far from an accurate picture of the Midwest state’s contributions to the war’s outcome. Though traditionally cast in a peripheral role, the conventional warfare of Missouri was integral in the Civil War’s development and ultimate conclusion. The strategic battles fought by organized armies are often lost amidst the stories of guerrilla tactics and bloody combat, but in The Civil War in Missouri, Louis S. Gerteis explores the state’s conventional warfare and its effects on the unfolding of national history. Both the Union and the Confederacy had a vested interest in Missouri throughout the war. The state offered control of both the lower Mississippi valley and the Missouri River, strategic areas that could greatly factor into either side’s success or failure. Control of St. Louis and mid-Missouri were vital for controlling the West, and rail lines leading across the state offered an important connection between eastern states and the communities out west. The Confederacy sought to maintain the Ozark Mountains as a northern border, which allowed concentrations of rebel troops to build in the Mississippi valley. With such valuable stock at risk, Lincoln registered the importance of keeping rebel troops out of Missouri, and so began the conventional battles investigated by Gerteis. The first book-length examination of its kind, The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History dares to challenge the prevailing opinion that Missouri battles made only minor contributions to the war. Gerteis specifically focuses not only on the principal conventional battles in the state but also on the effects these battles had on both sides’ national aspirations. This work broadens the scope of traditional Civil War studies to include the losses and wins of Missouri, in turn creating a more accurate and encompassing narrative of the nation’s history.

Download or read book Rebels on the Border written by Aaron Astor and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South. As a result, Rebels on the Border deepens and enhances understanding of the sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. After slaves in central Kentucky and Missouri gained their emancipation, author Aaron Astor contends, they transformed informal kin and social networks of resistance against slavery into more formalized processes of electoral participation and institution building. At the same time, white politics in Kentucky's Bluegrass and Missouri's Little Dixie underwent an electoral realignment in response to the racial and social revolution caused by the war and its aftermath. Black citizenship and voting rights provoked a violent white reaction and a cultural reinterpretation of white regional identity. After the war, the majority of wartime Unionists in the Bluegrass and Little Dixie joined former Confederate guerrillas in the Democratic Party in an effort to stifle the political ambitions of former slaves. Rebels on the Border is not simply a story of bitter political struggles, partisan guerrilla warfare, and racial violence. Like no other scholarly account of Kentucky and Missouri during the Civil War, it places these two crucial heartland states within the broad context of local, southern, and national politics.

Download or read book Missouri s War written by Silvana R. Siddali and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Missouri stood at the crossroads of America. As the most Southern-leaning state in the Middle West, Missouri faced a unique dilemma. The state formed the gateway between east and west, as well as one of the borders between the two contending armies. Moreover, because Missouri was the only slave state in the Great Interior, the conflicts that were tearing the nation apart were also starkly evident within the state. Deep divisions between Southern and Union supporters, as well as guerrilla violence on the western border, created a terrible situation for civilians who lived through the attacks of bushwhackers and Jayhawkers. The documents collected in Missouri’s War reveal what factors motivated Missourians to remain loyal to the Union or to fight for the Confederacy, how they coped with their internal divisions and conflicts, and how they experienced the end of slavery in the state. Private letters, diary entries, song lyrics, official Union and Confederate army reports, newspaper editorials, and sermons illuminate the war within and across Missouri’s borders. Missouri’s War also highlights the experience of free and enslaved African Americans before the war, as enlisted Union soldiers, and in their effort to gain rights after the end of the war. Although the collection focuses primarily on the war years, several documents highlight both the national sectional conflict that led to the outbreak of violence and the effort to reunite the conflicting forces in Missouri after the war.

Download or read book Rebels on the Border written by Aaron Astor and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the sectional conflict at the border of the North and the Confederate South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, discussing how black citizenship and voting rights instigated political conflicts and racial violence.

Download or read book War for Missouri The 1861 1862 written by Joseph W. McCoskrie and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Missouri was filled with bitter sentiment over the Civil War. Governor Claiborne Jackson had a plan to seize the St. Louis Arsenal and arm a pro-secessionist force. Former governor and Mexican-American War hero Sterling Price commanded the Missouri State Guard charged to protect the state from Federal troops. The disagreements let to ten military actions, causing hundreds of casualties before First Bull Run in the East. The state guard garnered a series of victories before losing control to the Union in 1862. Guerrilla and bushwhacker bands roamed the state at will. Author Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. details the fight for the Show Me State."--Back cover.

Download or read book The Civil War on the Border Volume 1 written by Wiley Britton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... BATTLE OF LONE JACK. In the early part of August, reports were almost daily coming to General James Totten commanding district of Central Missouri, headquarters at Sedalia, and to Colonel Daniel Huston, Seventh Missouri Cavalry, commanding post of Lexington, that large detachments of Confederate forces were arriving in the counties of Jackson, La Fayette, and Johnson from the south; that these fragmentary commands were being rapidly augmented by recruits from those counties, in which there were large numbers of men who preferred to join the Confederate service to joining the loyal militia; and that the Confederate officers were preparing to concentrate their forces in the neighborhood of Lone Jack, in the southeast corner of Jackson County, with the view of marching on Lexington. The receipt of the information of the surrender of Colonel Buel's Federal force at Independence on the nth produced a profound impression, and led General Totten to immediately send troops into the section reported to be overrun by the enemy. Major Emory S. Foster, Seventh Missouri State Militia Cavalry, had already rendered distinguished service in fighting guerillas in Central and Western Missouri, and his bravery and efficiency had been brought to the notice of the commanding general. He was therefore directed by General Totten to proceed to Lexington with a detachment of two hundred cavalry; and at that place Colonel Huston was instructed to detail a force of as many men as could safely be spared to report to him. In view of the threatened danger, Colonel Huston had strengthened his position at Lexington. On the 10th he ordered Colonel Newgent's Second Battalion Missouri State Militia, stationed at Chapel Hill, to march to Lexington, which they did, arriving...

Download or read book Missouri Ordeal 1862 1864 written by Margaret Mendenhall Frazier and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War diaries of Willard Hall Mendenhall (1832-1910), who lived in Lafayette County, Missouri, and married Mary Margaret Kavanaugh in 1858. Two sections of the book include the Mendenhall and Kavanaugh ancestral genealogy. The introductory essay by James W. Goodrich of the State Historical Society of Missouri, illustrates how the diaries " ... provide a revealing account of the ravages of civil war upon the population of west central Missouri. Regardless of allegiances to the Union or the Confederacy, Lafayette Countians and their neighbors faced harassment, confiscation, looting, burning and killing throughout the tramatic war years." 9p. [3]).

Download or read book The Last Hurrahs for Jeff Davis written by Michael Duane Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On this Rock I Will Build written by David A. Squires and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First written in the 1940s and based largely on true history, this is the story of Dan Fillmore, a young man raised in the Blackfoot country of central Missouri during the turbulent Civil War era. Dan's father and two brothers were killed in acts of War atrocity, leaving Dan the man of the family at the age of six. Throughout childhood, Dan worked hard to keep his farm intact while caring for his mother and sister. From those responsibilties grew his resolve to minister in rural Boone County's Methodist churches. Even as the young preacher struggled with doubts about his ability to keep his farm, tend his ailing mother, and deal with his adversaries in the community, he grew in wisdom and understanding to stand confident in the pulpit with the imposing demeanor and Christian conviction that his congregations remembered for generations after. Highlighting the values and thinking of a lost era, Dan's story is told with gentility and decorum that are rarely found in literature today. What is known of the truth is preserved in an epilogue that details the facts relevant to this remarkable piece of history." - back cover

Download or read book A Store Almost in Sight written by Jeff Bremer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of commercial development in Central Missouri in the 1800s.

Download or read book Jasper County Missouri in the Civil War written by Ward L. Schrantz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kansas Missouri Border War written by John Kekec and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about two pioneer families that migrated west from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and then came together in southeastern Kansas Territory just in time to be caught up right in the middle of the Kansas/Missouri Border War and the Civil War campaign that followed. The Border War began in the mid 1850's and actually lasted throughout the Civil War years of 1861 to 1865.The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 had opened up the land to legal settlement, but it allowed the residents of these territories to decide by popular vote whether the state would be a slave or free state, and that was the root of the resulting turbulence. The Border War pitted the pro slavery group against the abolitionist free-statersThis situation soon led to organized guerilla-type raids followed by still more raids of retribution in retaliation. There was incessant pillaging, burnings, shootings, looting, and hangings throughout the long period of unrest and such dispirited cries rang out from the terror-stricken neighbors as, "The shot my husband and oldest son...", "they burned our cabin and crops ...", "they stole all of our horses and other livestock ...", "they set the whole prairie on fire ...", and "they sacked the town and then burned it down."Through these turbulent times the Little and Williams families were quite active in business and political affairs both locally in Bourbon, County as well as at the more prominent centers around the territory then before statehood. There were doctors, merchants, judges, territorial legislature representatives, lawyers, newspapermen, and a U.S. Marshall in the families. The violence along the border only escalated with the beginning of the Civil War in Missouri in the spring of 1861. It didn't take the federal troops out of St. Louis long to run the Confederate-leaning state government out of central Missouri and across and down along the Kansas border to northwest Arkansas. The Battle of Carthage occurred along there on July 5, 1861. This engagement was still eleven days before the first Battle of Bull Run of the eastern campaign. The battle at Carthage was only the prelude to the big Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield that soon followed and the subsequent big Battle of Pea Ridge early the following year. The Civil War west of the Mississippi is referred to as the Trans-Mississippi Campaign, which included primarily the campaign in Missouri, but also in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and the action all along the Mississippi River.Many of the Little and Williams family members served in some of these engagements and other skirmishes around the state. History comes alive for us as it is seen through the eyes of actual exemplary family characters whose lives were integrally immersed in these major events of our American History. This type of story-telling also interjects the human characteristics and emotions with both the highs and lows of their proud accomplishments including the hardships and heartaches of the vulnerable victims.This new Our American Heritage series takes a genealogy approach in presenting our American History. This different look at our past through the eyes of some of our ancestors affords a more personal touch that results in more lasting impressions and a deeper understanding not usually garnered through the reading of textbooks. Images of ancestors engaged in the associated historic events are enabled to be brought into sharper focus from their often fuzzy obscurity. Such historic accounts in our ancestor's lives are intertwined and are all integrally wrapped up together in our American History, and we should know them both better than just the cursory impression gained from a smile in a faded photograph or a few memorized dates concerning some long ago historic events. Some of these ancestor generations were born in a special era with a unique set of circumstances and challenges as fate's chosen destiny for them, and whose experiences are a part of our great American heritage.