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The Battle of Mine Creek: The Crushing End of the Missouri Campaign

Author : Jeffrey D. Stalnaker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233322
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Mine Creek: The Crushing End of the Missouri Campaign written by Jeffrey D. Stalnaker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864, Union troops controlled much of the South, Sherman's men marched with impunity through Georgia and defeat at Gettysburg was a painful and distant memory. The Confederacy needed to stem the tide. Confederate major general Sterling Price led an army of twelve thousand troops on a desperate charge through Missouri to deliver the state to the Confederacy and dash President Lincoln's hopes for reelection. This daring campaign culminated with the Battle of Mine Creek. A severely outnumbered Union army crushed the Confederate forces in one of the war's largest and most audacious cavalry charges. Historian Jeff Stalnaker puts the reader in the saddle with the Union troopers as they destroy all hope for Rebel victory in the Trans-Mississippi.

The Great Missouri Raid

Author : Michael J. Forsyth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786476958
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Great Missouri Raid written by Michael J. Forsyth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army's Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South's last invasion of Northern territory. But it was simply too late in the war for the South to achieve such an outcome, and Price grossly mismanaged the campaign, guaranteeing the defeat of his force and of the Confederate States. This book chronicles the Confederacy's desperate, final, ill-fated attempt to win a decisive victory.

Bluecoat and Pioneer

Author : John Benton Hart
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163593
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Bluecoat and Pioneer written by John Benton Hart and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, urged on by his son Harry, John Benton Hart began to tell stories of a three-year period in his youth. He recalled his days as a trooper in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, fighting in Missouri and on the frontier, and his time as a civilian jack-of-all-trades doing risky work for the U.S. Army on the Wyoming-Montana Bozeman Trail in the middle of the Indian resistance campaign known as Red Cloud’s War. Once started, John Benton Hart became an enthusiastic raconteur, describing events with an almost cinematic vividness, while his son, an aspiring writer, documented his father’s testimony in what became several manuscripts. Compiled and reproduced here, edited by historian John Hart, John Benton Hart’s great-grandson, this memoir is a singular document of living history. As a young Kansas cavalryman, John Benton Hart participated in two momentous episodes of the Civil War era—Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition of 1864, including the Battle of Westport, and such engagements in the Plains Indian Wars as the Battle of Platte Bridge in July 1865 and the Hayfield Fight near Fort C. F. Smith in 1867. In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, Hart re-creates these events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at moments of historical import from the point of view of the “ordinary” soldier. In arresting detail, he also tells of crossing the Plains as a bullwhacker, carrying the mail between the beleaguered forts on the Bozeman Trail, and befriending scout Jim Bridger and Mountain Crow Chief Blackfoot. Framed and supplemented with the editor’s biographical, historical, and explanatory notes, Hart’s memoir offers a new perspective on events long fixed in the historical imagination. As history writ large or on a personal scale, Bluecoat and Pioneer tells a remarkable story.

The Civil War in Kansas

Author : Debra Goodrich Bisel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234051
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in Kansas written by Debra Goodrich Bisel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1850s, the eyes of the world were on Kansas. The Civil War in Kansas will be an overview of the years 1854-1865, since the war began in Kansas nearly seven years before it spread to the rest of the nation. From the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to its entry in the Union, Kansas played a small role in the war as a whole, but its effects on the state were nonetheless important. With regards to the Kansas citizens who played a part, it would be an understatement to call them "colorful." From John Brown to Jim Lane, Kansans made headlines throughout the nation and the world. Bisel presents the history of Kansas during the Civil War years in an accessible way that will satisfy history buffs as well as enlighten novices.

October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek

Author : Lumir F. Buresh
Publisher : Lowell Press (OR)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek written by Lumir F. Buresh and published by Lowell Press (OR). This book was released on 1977 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Battle Never Fought

Author : Chris Mackowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1611214084
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Great Battle Never Fought written by Chris Mackowski and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job. The Confederate army, robbed of much of its offensive strength, nevertheless parried Meade’s moves time after time. Although the armies remained in constant contact during those long months of cavalry clashes, quick maneuvers, and sudden skirmishes, Lee continued to frustrate Meade’s efforts. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Meade’s political enemies launched an all-out assault against his reputation and generalship. Even the very credibility of his victory at Gettysburg came under assault. Pressure mounted for the army commander to score a decisive victory and prove himself once more. Smaller victories, like those at Bristoe Station and Rappahannock Station, did little to quell the growing clamor—particularly because out west, in Chattanooga, another Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, was once again reversing Federal misfortunes. Meade needed a comparable victory in the east. And so, on Thanksgiving Day, 1863, the Army of the Potomac rumbled into motion once more, intent on trying again to bring about the great battle that would end the war. The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2 1863 recounts the final chapter of the forgotten fall of 1863—when George Gordon Meade made one final attempt to save the Union and, in doing so, save himself.

Campaign for Wilson's Creek

Author : Jeffrey L. Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933337791
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Campaign for Wilson's Creek written by Jeffrey L. Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. In fact, a popularly elected state convention voted in March of that year that "no adequate cause" existed to compel Missouri to leave the Union. Instead, Missourians saw themselves as ideologically centered between the radical notions of abolition and secession. By summer 1861, however, the situation had deteriorated dramatically. Because of the actions of politicians and soldiers such as Missouri Gov. Claiborne Jackson and Union Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, Missourians found themselves forced to take sides. In this updated edition, author Jeffrey Patrick tells the fascinating story of high-stakes military gambles, aggressive leadership, and lost opportunities. Campaign for Wilson's Creek is a tale of unique military units, untried but determined commanders, colorful volunteers, and professional soldiers. The first major campaign of the Civil War to take place west of the Mississippi River guaranteed that Missourians would be engaged in a long, cruel civil war within the larger, national struggle.

Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged

Author : Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625858450
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged written by Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Price's Lost Campaign

Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826219497
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Price's Lost Campaign written by Mark A. Lause and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Price's Raid, the Confederate attempt to defeat the Republicans in the Federal election by influencing voters in Missouri. Looks at the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Raid.

The Last Hurrah

Author : Kyle Sinisi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742545369
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Last Hurrah written by Kyle Sinisi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield

Author : Kansas State Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Mine Creek Civil War Battlefield written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebel Invasion of Missouri and Kansas

Author : Richard Josiah Hinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Invasion of Missouri and Kansas written by Richard Josiah Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strategies of North and South

Author : Gerald L. Earley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476685665
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Strategies of North and South written by Gerald L. Earley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Antebellum days there has been a tendency to view the South as martially superior to the North. In the years leading up to the Civil War, Southern elites viewed Confederate soldiers as gallant cavaliers, their Northern enemies as mere brutish inductees. An effort to give an unbiased appraisal, this book investigates the validity of this perception, examining the reasoning behind the belief in Southern military supremacy, why the South expected to win, and offering an cultural comparison of the antebellum North and South. The author evaluates command leadership, battle efficiency, variables affecting the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and which side faced the more difficult path to victory and demonstrated superior strategy.

The Two Civil War Battles of Newtonia: Fierce and Furious

Author : Larry Wood
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230277
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Two Civil War Battles of Newtonia: Fierce and Furious written by Larry Wood and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the First and Second Battles of Newtonia did not match epic Civil War battles like Antietam, where over thirty-five hundred soldiers were killed in a single day, and Gettysburg, where twice that number died in three days of fighting, such smaller engagements were just as important to the men who lived through them. The ones who didn't were just as dead, and for a brief time at least, the combat often raged just as violently. With the approach of the sesquicentennial of the war, some of the lesser-known battles are finally getting their due. Join local resident and historian Larry Wood as he expertly chronicles both Battles of Newtonia, the first of which, in 1862, was the Confederacy's first attempt to reestablish a significant presence in Missouri and the only Civil War battle in which American Indians took opposing sides, fighting in units of regimental strength. The second battle--a fight that was "fierce and furious" while it lasted--stands as the last important engagement of the Civil War in the state.

Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) Battle Summaries: Mine Creek

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) Battle Summaries: Mine Creek written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) of the U.S. National Park Service presents the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) battle summary of the Battle of Mine Creek in Kansas, which was considered a Union victory. The summary notes other names for the battle, its location, the larger military campaign, dates, commanders, forces engaged, estimated casualties, and includes a battle description.

The Overland Campaign, 4 May-15 June 1864 [Illustrated Edition]

Author : David W. Hogan Jr.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786254360
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Overland Campaign, 4 May-15 June 1864 [Illustrated Edition] written by David W. Hogan Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 8 maps and numerous other illustrations One hundred and fifty years ago this spring, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the campaign that marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. For over a month, he and General Robert E. Lee were locked in a remorseless struggle that took their armies across the woodlands and farm clearings of central Virginia on the road to the Southern capital of Richmond. In the Wilderness, Union and Confederate soldiers battled in an almost trackless forest in which the opposing sides could hardly see each other and the severely wounded fell victim to spreading flames from underbrush set afire. At Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle, for over twenty hours, opposing troops grappled from opposite sides of a breastwork in a pouring rain in some of the fiercest hand-to–hand fighting of the entire war. At Cold Harbor, perhaps 5,000 Federal troops fell in the first hour of a hopeless, bungled attack that Grant would forever regret having ordered. And at Yellow Tavern, Union horsemen cut down the great Confederate cavalry leader, Maj. Gen. James E. B. “Jeb” Stuart. The myth of chivalry that Stuart represented could find no room in a grim, pitiless contest that inflicted almost 100,000 casualties, went far toward ruining two great American armies, and foreshadowed the massive industrial conflicts of the twentieth century. Yet, after six weeks of bitter, unrelenting combat, the nation was that much closer to Appomattox Court House and eventual reunion.

One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End

Author : Gary Dillard Joiner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461639751
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End written by Gary Dillard Joiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana. In a year of stellar triumphs by Union armies across the South, the Red River Campaign stands out as a colossal failure. General William Tecumseh Sherman's scathing summation describes it best, "One damn blunder from beginning to end." Taking its title from Sherman's blunt description, One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864 is a fresh inspection of what was the Civil War's largest operation between the Union Army and Navy west of the Mississippi River. In a bold, but poorly managed effort to wrest Louisiana and Texas from Confederate control, a combined force of 40,000 Union troops and 60 naval vessels traveled up the twisting Red River in an attempt to capture the capital city of Shreveport. Gary D. Joiner provides not a recycled telling of the campaign, but a strategic and tactical overview based on a stunning new array of facts gleaned from recently discovered documents. This never-before-published information reveals that the Confederate army had laid a clever trap by engineering a drop in the water level of the Red River to try to maroon the Union naval flotilla. Only the equally amazing ingenuity of the Union troops saved the fleet from certain destruction, despite a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Mansfield. The Red River campaign had lasting implications. One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End magnifies just how devastating the diversion of so many men and so much material to this failed campaign was to the Union effort in the pivotal year of 1864. Because of the Union Army's failures, Northern plans to capture Mobile were scrapped. Military careers were made and lost. And at time when the Confederacy was teetering on the brink of oblivion, Southern morale was bolstered. Joiner puts together