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Fort Davidson and the Battle of Pilot Knob : Missouri's Alamo /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Busch, Walter E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charleston, S.C. : History Press, 2010.
Series:History Press Civil War sesquicentennial series.
Subjects:
Pilot Knob, Battle of, Pilot Knob, Mo., 1864.
Fort Davidson (Mo.) > History.
Fort Davidson State Historic Site (Pilot Knob, Mo.) > History.
Pilot Knob Memorial Association (Pilot Knob, Mo.) > History.
Fortification > Conservation and restoration > Missouri > Case studies.
Historic preservation > Missouri > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • The Union Army comes to the valley
  • Then came the tug of war
  • The death of Fort Davidson
  • Reconstructed-- from the ashes
  • Tenting on the old campground
  • Where the cannons used to roar
  • Retelling the battle : the Iron County register, 1882
  • Pilot Knob Memorial Association anniversary booklets
  • Meeting of the Pilot Knob Memorial Association (1904)
  • Second Annual Meeting of the Pilot Knob Memorial Association (1905)
  • Third Annual Meeting of the Pilot Knob Memorial Association (1906)
  • Appendix 1: Troops known to have been in the Arcadia Valley during the Civil War
  • Appendix 2: Text for some of the figures
  • Appendix 3: H.R. 4923 : a bill to create Pilot Knob National Battlefield.