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Description of  Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume I, 1862

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri in 1862, the year such warfare became the primary type of military action there and the year that the state saw almost constant fighting. An enormous variety of sources military and government records, private accounts, county and other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary sources published after the war are used to identify which Southern partisan leaders and groups operated in which areas of Missouri, and to describe how they operated and how their kinds of warfare evolved. Read more