In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

xiii Acknowledgments This work began after a conversation some years ago with Clair Willcox, editor-in-chief of the University of Missouri Press. Willcox had long wanted to publish a one-volume military history of the Civil War in Missouri. The approaching sesquicentennial of the war seemed to offer a propitious occasion for such a project, and he asked me if I would be interested in undertaking it. I agreed, and as the project progressed I have benefited from the involvement of a number of individuals. I have been repeatedly encouraged (and urged forward) by Clair Willcox, who would have preferred to see this work published a year earlier, at the beginning of the sesquicentennial commemoration. Jon Wakelyn, one of the editors of the Shades of Blue and Gray Series, offered his strong support. The two anonymous readers of the manuscript for the University of Missouri Press provided insightful criticisms and useful suggestions. One reader, noting that I have relied almost entirely on published primary sources, correctly observed that this work will not be the final word on the subject. A second reader encouraged me to think of Missouri as part of a larger Confederate effort (largely unsuccessful) to establish a secure northern border in the trans-Appalachian West. At the Press, Assistant Managing Editor Sara Davis strengthened and improved the manuscript in a number of ways. I benefited greatly from the close scrutiny and fine attention to detail provided by my copyeditor, Pippa Letsky. I am fortunate as well to have been able to enlist the services of the cartographer Erin Greb. I also benefited from a timely grant from the University of Missouri Research Board, which made it possible for me to devote an entire semester and a summer to research and writing and substantially hastened the completion of the project. In the past it was common for historians to thank individual librarians and archivists who assisted them in their research. It is still appropriate to do so, although in the new age of digitized resources acquired from the Internet, it is necessary to do so anonymously. Nevertheless, the willingness of librarians and archivists across the country to make their collections available for online research has revolutionized the historian’s task. Finally, as is always the case, all errors and omissions in the manuscript are the sole responsibility of the author. the civil war in missouri Missouri in 1861 ...

Share