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279 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index. |
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Before the Civil War -- December 1860 to June 1861 -- July 1861 to March 1862 -- April 1862 to January 1863 -- January 1863 to May 1863 -- May 1863, in the Trans-Mississippi Department -- Helena, Arkansas, June 1863 -- Little Rock, Arkansas, August 1863 -- Spring and Summer 1864 -- C.A. Peterson's additions -- Appendix 1. Contemporaneous material about the Price Expedition -- Appendix 2. Background material for Reynold's manuscript -- Appendix 3. Members of the Confederate congresses from Missouri. |
| Summary |
Sterling Price began his career as commander of the Missouri State Guard, then served as a major general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Because of his early conditional Unionism he was for the Union, but not to the extent of suppressing the rights of individual states. Price was not completely trusted in Missouri by either Governor Claiborne Jackson or Lieutenant Governor Thomas C. Reynolds. Though he and his men fought in the battles of Wilson's Creek, Lexington, and Pea Ridge, Price's 'last hurrah' was the autumn 1864 raid into Missouri. In 1867, Reynolds began writing his version of events. Reynold's unfinished manuscript has proved to be a proverbial gold mine of information. It is important not only for its appraisal of Sterling Price, but also for Reynolds' views of the inner workings of the Confederate government and in particular the challenges that faced the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy. |
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Price, Sterling, 1809-1867.
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Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography.
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Generals -- United States -- Biography.
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Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Southwest, Old -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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Price, Sterling, 1809-1867. (OCoLC)fst00207269
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Confederate States of America. Army. (OCoLC)fst00539981
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
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Missouri. (OCoLC)fst01204724
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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United States -- Old Southwest.
(OCoLC)fst01244557
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658 |
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1861-1865
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Schultz, Robert G.
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| ISBN |
9781883982683 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1883982685 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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