Tango01 | 29 Sep 2021 9:26 p.m. PST |
"The struggle for Missouri was one of the most prolonged and violent conflicts of nineteenth-century America, extending beyond the boundaries of the Civil War. In fact, Missouri was the very seedbed of the Civil War. Events in Missouri prior to 1861 triggered the national debate over the westward expansion of slavery, and the Kansas-Missouri Border War of the 1850s heralded the larger conflict. Yet, Missouri is marginalized in Civil War history, and its war continues to be treated as a "sideshow" because it defied notions of acceptable nineteenth-century warfare and continues to challenge our paradigm of a civil war. Claimed by both North and South, Missouri held a liminal status between Union and Confederate, with combatants fighting conventional battles as well as a guerrilla war. Over the course of the war, the guerrilla war predominated and shifted the struggle from the battlefield to the home front, blurring the line between combatant and noncombatant, drawing civilians into the conflict. The struggle for Missouri was one of the most prolonged and violent conflicts of nineteenth-century America, extending beyond the boundaries of the Civil War. In fact, Missouri was the very seedbed of the Civil War. Events in Missouri prior to 1861 triggered the national debate over the westward expansion of slavery, and the Kansas-Missouri Border War of the 1850s heralded the larger conflict. Yet, Missouri is marginalized in Civil War history, and its war continues to be treated as a "sideshow" because it defied notions of acceptable nineteenth-century warfare and continues to challenge our paradigm of a civil war. Claimed by both North and South, Missouri held a liminal status between Union and Confederate, with combatants fighting conventional battles as well as a guerrilla war. Over the course of the war, the guerrilla war predominated and shifted the struggle from the battlefield to the home front, blurring the line between combatant and noncombatant, drawing civilians into the conflict…" From ESSENTIAL CIVIL WAR CURRICULUM Blog link Armand |
Murvihill | 30 Sep 2021 6:24 a.m. PST |
Had to look up the meaning of liminal… |
Wackmole9 | 30 Sep 2021 8:26 a.m. PST |
Quote that explains alot of Missouri problem during the ACW from Operation Petticoat Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman: Any idea where they went? Lt. Watson: No, sir. When the air raid started they took off. All Mr. Holden said was "In confusion there is profit." |
donlowry | 30 Sep 2021 9:04 a.m. PST |
I'm writing a book now that focuses mostly on the early struggle for Missouri and the beginning of Grant's career. Wilson's Creek is one very confusing battle, but I think I'm sorting it out. (Secondary focus is Lee's first campaign, in West Virginia.) |
Wackmole9 | 30 Sep 2021 10:21 a.m. PST |
HI The problem with understanding MO in ACW is you have to understand the whole region history going back a couple of decades. You have a lot of events and personalities, that shaped the war long before the war. Going from a boom time to a crash as people were pull further west ( gold rushes in CA,CO) |
Dan Cyr | 30 Sep 2021 10:22 a.m. PST |
I have your other books, Don (and have enjoyed them for decades past), so i look forward to any new volumes you come out with. |
doc mcb | 30 Sep 2021 11:31 a.m. PST |
Time to watch RIDE WITH THE DEVIL again! And maybe THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES. Interesting that the war in MO, among the most bitter and intense but also rather peripheral, has gotten so much attention culturally, in comparison to some vastly larger and arguably more important aspects. It's surely, in some large part, the Jesse James romanticism. |
Major Mike | 30 Sep 2021 1:46 p.m. PST |
I always like to study Sterling Prices' last Hurrah in late 1864. All sorts of interesting struggles and fights that occur that puts him off of St. Louis but then to head for the Capital and Kansas City. |
Tango01 | 30 Sep 2021 3:23 p.m. PST |
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donlowry | 01 Oct 2021 9:40 a.m. PST |
Thank you, Dan! I thought someone was buying them! I have a couple of others written but not published yet. Amazon changed their way of doing self-publishing a couple of years back, and I haven't gotten around to figuring out the new procedure. |
mildbill | 01 Oct 2021 4:25 p.m. PST |
Except for the interstates , all the roads between MO and KS have an s curve in them at the border. Feelings can still run high in certain circles. |
Dan Cyr | 01 Oct 2021 6:35 p.m. PST |
Your multi-volume set is one of my favorites. |