"The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning..." Topic

… of the End in Civil War Missouri.

"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. In The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. 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.

The success of the Confederates would be measured by how long they could avoid returning south to spend a hungry winter among the picked-over fields of southwestern Arkansas and northeastern Texas. As Price moved from Pilot Knob to Boonville, the Raid brutalized and alienated the people it supposedly wished to liberate. With Union cavalry pushing out of Jefferson City, the Confederates took Boonville, Glasgow, and Sedalia in their stride, and fostered a wave of attacks across northern Missouri by guerrillas and organizations 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.

The follow-up to Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri, Lause's The Collapse of Price's Raid is a must-have for any reader interested in the Civil War or in Missouri state history."

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Armand

If Price's troops had succeeded a little better, critical troops that busted Hood at Nashville might never had been sent from Missouri. Once Price moved away from St. Louis his wagon train became vunerable and often he had to stand and fight just to try and protect it as the booty it carried would be needed to sustain his force for the coming winter.

The stubborn garrison at Pilot Knob delayed Price long enough to give the Union time to send reinforcements to Missouri, especially St Louis.

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ARmand

if Kirby smith had better supported price, perhaps with a more general northward movement of his Infantry? the divisions of j.g.walker, parsons and Churchill could have added materially to any campaign?