The Collapse of Price's Raid - The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri

Published by Univeristy of Missouri Press, 2016. ISBN 9780826220257.

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"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 262pp. Light wear to dust wrapper edges; a near fine copy. As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. Lause examines the complex political and social context of what became known as "Price's Raid," the final significant Southern operation west of the Mississippi River. As Price moved from Pilot Knob to Boonville, the Raid brutalised and alienated the people it supposedly wished to liberate. With Union cavalry pushing out of Jefferson City, the Confederates took Boonville, Glasgow, and Sedalia, and fostered a wave of attacks across northern Missouri by guerrillas and organisations of new recruits. With the Missouri River to their north and the ravaged farmlands to their south, Price's men continued west. At Lexington, Confederates began encountering a second Federal army newly raised in Kansas under General Samuel R. Curtis. A running battle from the Little Blue through Independence to the Big Blue marked the first of three days of battle in the area of Kansas City, as the two Federal armies squeezed the Confederate forces between them. Despite a self-congratulatory victory, Union forces failed to capture the very vulnerable army of Price, which escaped down the Kansas line.…

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Title
The Collapse of Price's Raid - The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri
Author
Lause, Mark A.
Publisher
Univeristy of Missouri Press, 2016. ISBN 9780826220257.
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