The Younger's fight for freedom; a southern soldier's twenty years' campaign to open northern prison doors - with Anecdotes of war days,

The war between the states, as all wars, left scars everywhere. These scars were deepest on the border where the conflict was sharpest and demoralization following the battle strife most complete. From this borderland in western Missouri, went into outlawry a group of men whose exploits have become...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bronaugh, W. C. (Warren Carter), 1839-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo., Printed for the author by E.W. Stephens Pub., 1906.
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Online Access:http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00160928694
Table of Contents:
  • A preliminary sketch
  • A Confederate picket
  • A wedding trip northward
  • In Jackson County
  • A meeting at Jefferson City
  • Governor Marshall's defense
  • A second defense
  • A visit and a petition
  • The first effort
  • Northward again
  • Three kinds of people
  • Merriam's refusal
  • In the hospital at Stillwater
  • The messenger of death
  • Hal Reid's tribute
  • A change of administration
  • In the presence of the Governor
  • A memorable year
  • The Board of Pardons
  • My letter to the Pioneer Press
  • Newspaper comments
  • Another failure
  • Favorable action at last
  • The release
  • The parole bill
  • After Stillwater
  • Magnitude of the task
  • A romance prior to Northfield
  • Love and death
  • Cole Younger returns home
  • Cole Younger as a correspondent
  • Major John N. Edwards, author of the famous Younger petition
  • Warden Wolfer's work
  • Capt. Reagan and his tribute
  • Anecdotes of war days.