Guide To Missouri Confederate Units 1861 1865

Author : James E. McGhee
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1610751744

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Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 by James E. McGhee Pdf

Tracing the origins and history of Missouri Confederate units that served during the Civil War is nearly as difficult as comprehending the diverse politics that produced them. Deeply torn by the issues that caused the conflict, some Missourians chose sides enthusiastically, others reluctantly, while a number had to choose out of sheer necessity, for fence straddling held no sway in the state after the fighting began. The several thousand that sided with the Confederacy formed a variety of military organizations, some earning reputations for hard fighting exceeded by few other states, North or South. Unfortunately, the records of Missouri's Confederate units have not been adequately preserved—officially or otherwise—until now. James E. McGhee is a highly respected and widely published authority on the Civil War in Missouri; the scope of this book is startling, the depth of detail gratifying, its reliability undeniable, and the unit narratives highly readable. McGhee presents accounts of the sixty-nine artillery, cavalry, and infantry units in the state, as well as their precedent units and those that failed to complete their organization. Relying heavily on primary sources, such as rosters, official reports, order books, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he weaves diverse materials into concise narratives of each of Missouri's Confederate organizations. He lists the field-grade officers for battalions and regiments, companies and company commanders, and places of origin for each company when known. In addition to listing all the commanding officers in each unit, he includes a bibliography germane to the unit, while a supplemental bibliography provides the other sources used in preparing this unique and comprehensive resource.

Author : Robert S. Bevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Missouri
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2NCW

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History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades by Robert S. Bevier Pdf

This book contains both a history of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades as well as a personal memoir of the Civil War.

Author : Arthur W. Bergeron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0807114960

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Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865 by Arthur W. Bergeron Pdf

Author : Bruce Nichols
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786475841

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Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume IV, September 1864-June 1865 by Bruce Nichols Pdf

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different tactics each side attempted to gain advantage over each other, with regional differences as influenced by the personalities of local commanders. The author utilizes both well-known and obscure sources (including military and government records, private accounts, county and other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary sources published after the war) to identify which Southern partisan leaders and groups operated in which areas of Missouri, and how their kinds of warfare evolved. This work presents the actions of Southern guerrilla forces and Confederate behind-Union-lines recruiters chronologically by region so that readers may see the relationship of seemingly isolated events to other events. The book also studies the counteractions of an array of different types of Union troops fighting guerrillas in Missouri to show how differences in training, leadership and experience affected actions in the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807140430

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Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865 by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Alan Marten
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814763391

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Children and Youth During the Civil War Era by James Alan Marten Pdf

This title places the history of children and youth in the context of the Civil War. The book seeks a deeper investigation into the historical record by giving voice and context to their struggles and victories during this critical period in American history.

Author : Jeff Erzin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476681030

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Confederate Veterans in Northern California by Jeff Erzin Pdf

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War. Biographies of 101 former rebels are provided, from the oldest brother of the Clanton Gang to the son of a President to plantation owners, dirt farmers, criminals and everything in between.

Author : Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807121023

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Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861–1865 by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. Pdf

“Bergeron has produced a book. . . essential to the serious Confederate scholar.”—Journal of American History In Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., examines the 111 artillery, cavalry, and infantry units that Louisiana furnished to the Confederate armies. No other reference has the complete and accurate record of Louisiana’s contribution to the war. For each unit, Bergeron provides a brief account of its war activities—including battles, losses, and dates of important events. He also lists the units’ field officers, the companies in each regiment or battalion, and the names of company commanders. “This book should serve as a model for studies of other states in the Civil War.”—Military History of the Southwest

Author : Bruce Nichols
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786438136

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Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume III, January-August 1864 by Bruce Nichols Pdf

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various tactics each side used to try to gain advantage, with regional differences affected by the differing personalities of commanders. The author utilizes both well-known and obscure sources (military and government records, private accounts, county and other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary sources published after the war) to identify which Southern partisan leaders and groups operated in which areas of Missouri, and describe how they operated and how their kinds of warfare evolved. This work presents the actions of Southern guerrilla forces and Confederate behind-Union-lines recruiters chronologically by region to reveal the relationship of seemingly isolated events to other events. The book also studies the counteractions of an array of different types of Union troops to show how differences in training, leadership and experience affected actions in the field.

Author : William L. Shea
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898686

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Fields of Blood by William L. Shea Pdf

William Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. Shea provides a colorful account of a grueling campaign that lasted five months and covered hundreds of miles of rugged Ozark terrain. In a fascinating analysis of the personal, geographical, and strategic elements that led to the fateful clash in northwest Arkansas, he describes a campaign notable for rapid marching, bold movements, hard fighting, and the most remarkable raid of the Civil War.

Author : Tom A. Rafiner
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781450089562

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Caught Between Three Fires by Tom A. Rafiner Pdf

For 11 years, astride the Missouri-Kansas border, Cass County endured the vortex of our nation’s most violent confl ict. Citizens struggled between three raging fi res, Secessionism, Unionism, and an undying Border War. Cass County’s uncivil war, intimate, cruel, and total, suffered no man, woman or child to escape loss or injury – their individual stories weave history’s fabric. Violent circumstances forged leaders who shaped Missouri’s political and military history. Caught Between Three Fires, for the fi rst time, reconstructs a lost history, erased by total destruction, Order No. 11, and time’s purposeful neglect.

Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476616988

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Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Pdf

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none have been devoted exclusively to participants in the Western river war as waged down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Red River, and up the Ohio, the Tennessee and the Cumberland. Based on the Official Records, county histories, newspapers and internet sources, this is the first work to profile personnel involved in the fighting on these great streams. Included in this biographical encyclopedia are Union and Confederate naval officers down to the rank of mate; enlisted sailors who won the Medal of Honor, or otherwise distinguished themselves or who wrote accounts of life on the gunboats; army officers and leaders who played a direct role in combat along Western waters; political officials who influenced river operations; civilian steamboat captains and pilots who participated in wartime logistics; and civilian contractors directly involved, including shipbuilders, dam builders, naval constructors and munitions experts. Each of the biographies includes (where known) birth, death and residence data; unit organization or ship; involvement in the river war; pre- and post-war careers; and source documentation. Hundreds of individuals are given their first historic recognition.

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000056253648

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Military Operations of the Civil War by United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : Kyle Sinisi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742545366

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The Last Hurrah by Kyle Sinisi Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625858450

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Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged by Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren Pdf

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.