The homefront in Civil War Missouri /
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| Language: | English |
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Charleston, S.C. :
History Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- A border state on the cusp of the war
- The problem of slavery in a loyal border state
- Dispensing and dispensing with justice in a guerrilla war
- Missouri as military base
- Living with soldiers and guerrillas: rural Missouri in 1862
- Religion and religious freedom in the midst of guerrilla war
- Women couriers, cannoneers and children fight the war
- War weariness sets in: rural Missouri in 1863-64
- Medical care and the Western Sanitary Commission
- Confrontation, emancipation, and the ironclad oath.