Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 write by James E. McGhee. This book was released on 2011-07. Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tracing the origins and history of Missouri Confederate units that served during the Civil War is nearly as difficult as comprehending the diverse politics that produced them. Deeply torn by the issues that caused the conflict, some Missourians chose sides enthusiastically, others reluctantly, while a number had to choose out of sheer necessity, for fence straddling held no sway in the state after the fighting began. The several thousand that sided with the Confederacy formed a variety of military organizations, some earning reputations for hard fighting exceeded by few other states, North or South. Unfortunately, the records of Missouri's Confederate units have not been adequately preserved—officially or otherwise—until now. James E. McGhee is a highly respected and widely published authority on the Civil War in Missouri; the scope of this book is startling, the depth of detail gratifying, its reliability undeniable, and the unit narratives highly readable. McGhee presents accounts of the sixty-nine artillery, cavalry, and infantry units in the state, as well as their precedent units and those that failed to complete their organization. Relying heavily on primary sources, such as rosters, official reports, order books, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he weaves diverse materials into concise narratives of each of Missouri's Confederate organizations. He lists the field-grade officers for battalions and regiments, companies and company commanders, and places of origin for each company when known. In addition to listing all the commanding officers in each unit, he includes a bibliography germane to the unit, while a supplemental bibliography provides the other sources used in preparing this unique and comprehensive resource.
Battlefield Atlas of Price's Missouri Expedition Of 1864
Battlefield Atlas of Price's Missouri Expedition Of 1864 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battlefield Atlas of Price's Missouri Expedition Of 1864 write by Charles Collins. This book was released on 2018-05-13. Battlefield Atlas of Price's Missouri Expedition Of 1864 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 230 page atlas is divided into seven parts. Part I, Missouri's Divided Loyalties, and Part II, Missouri's Five Seasons, provide an overview of Missouri's history from the initial settlement of the Louisiana Purchase Territories through the opening years of the American Civil War. The remaining parts cover the Confederate plan, the Confederate movement into Missouri and the Union reaction, the Confederate retreat and Union pursuit into Kansas, and the final Confederate escape back into Arkansas. The atlas has a standard format with the map to left and the narrative to the right. Each narrative closes with two or more primary source vignettes. These vignettes provide an overview of the events shown on the map and discussed in the narrative from the perspective of persons who participated in the events. In most cases there are two vignettes with the first from a person loyal to the Union and the second from a person who supported the southern cause. A few narratives have two or more vignettes from only the Union side. This was done to emphasize disagreements and struggles among senior leaders to establish a common course of action. Map 25, Decision at the Little Blue River, is a good example and the three vignettes emphasize the disagreement between Maj. Gen. Samuel Curtis and his subordinate, Maj. Gen. James Blunt on where to locate the Union defensive line.
The Little Regiment
The Little Regiment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Little Regiment write by Stephen Crane. This book was released on 1896. The Little Regiment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume III, January-August 1864
Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume III, January-August 1864 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume III, January-August 1864 write by Bruce Nichols. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume III, January-August 1864 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various tactics each side used to try to gain advantage, with regional differences affected by the differing personalities of commanders. The author utilizes both well-known and obscure sources (military and government records, private accounts, county and other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary sources published after the war) to identify which Southern partisan leaders and groups operated in which areas of Missouri, and describe how they operated and how their kinds of warfare evolved. This work presents the actions of Southern guerrilla forces and Confederate behind-Union-lines recruiters chronologically by region to reveal the relationship of seemingly isolated events to other events. The book also studies the counteractions of an array of different types of Union troops to show how differences in training, leadership and experience affected actions in the field.
Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged
Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged write by Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren. This book was released on 2017. Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Civil War, only Virginia and Tennessee saw more action than Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant first proved his ability there. Sterling Price, a former governor of Missouri, sided with the Confederacy, raised an army and led it in battle all over the state. Notorious guerrilla warriors "Bloody" Bill Anderson and William Quantrill terrorized communities and confounded Union military commanders. Brian Warren and Joseph "Whit" McCoskrie provide a chronological overview of more than three hundred of the documented engagements that took place within Missouri's borders, furnishing photos, maps, biographical sketches and military tactics.
