"The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition..." Topic

… of 1864.

"In the late summer of 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price led a last ditch attempt to liberate Missouri from Union occupation and brutal guerrilla warfare. Price's invading army was like few others seen during the Civil War. It was an army of cavalry that lacked men, horses, weapons, and discipline. Its success depended entirely upon a native uprising of pro-Confederate Missourians. When that uprising never occurred, Price's rag-tag army marched through the state seeking revenge, supplies and conscripts. It was a march that took too long and ultimately allowed Union forces to converge on Price and badly defeat him in a series of battles that ran from Kansas City to the Arkansas border. Three months and 1,400 miles after it had started, the longest sustained cavalry operation of the war had ended in disaster. The Last Hurrah is the story of Price's invasion from its politically charged planning to its starving retreat. The Last Hurrah is also the story of what happened after the shooting stopped. Even as hundreds of Missourians followed Price out of the state and tried desperately to join his army, elements of the Union army visited retribution upon Confederate sympathizers while still others showed little regard for the lives of the prisoners they had captured. Many more would have to suffer and die long after Sterling Price had fled Missouri."

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My gggrandfather was mortally wounded in this "adventure" serving with the 6th mo Cavalry (US). Right on the Arkansas border and the crossing where the federal cavalry made their parade/charge. Wish I could have seen that.

It would be interesting to compare the respective morale states immediately prior to Mine Creek? The sense of demoralisation setting in among the Confederates and the up-swing in Union morale as the Confederate retreat degenerated into headlong flight.