Last Hurrah (eBook)

Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864

Kyle Sinisi (Autor)

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2015
468 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-4536-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In the late summer of 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price led a last ditch attempt to liberate Missouri from Union occupation and brutal guerrilla warfare. Price’s invading army was like few others seen during the Civil War. This is the story of his invasion from its politically charged planning to its starving retreat.

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In the late summer of 1864, Confederate General Sterling Price led a last ditch attempt to liberate Missouri from Union occupation and brutal guerrilla warfare. Price's invading army was like few others seen during the Civil War. It was an army of cavalry that lacked men, horses, weapons, and discipline. Its success depended entirely upon a native uprising of pro-Confederate Missourians. When that uprising never occurred, Price's rag-tag army marched through the state seeking revenge, supplies and conscripts. It was a march that took too long and ultimately allowed Union forces to converge on Price and badly defeat him in a series of battles that ran from Kansas City to the Arkansas border. Three months and 1,400 miles after it had started, the longest sustained cavalry operation of the war had ended in disaster. The Last Hurrah is the story of Price's invasion from its politically charged planning to its starving retreat. The Last Hurrah is also the story of what happened after the shooting stopped. Even as hundreds of Missourians followed Price out of the state and tried desperately to join his army, elements of the Union army visited retribution upon Confederate sympathizers while still others showed little regard for the lives of the prisoners they had captured. Many more would have to suffer and die long after Sterling Price had fled Missouri.

Autor

Kyle S. Sinisi is professor of history at The Citadel. He is author of Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861–1880 and co-editor of Warm Ashes: Essays in Southern History at the Dawn of the 21st Century.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Sterling Price is the State of Missouri Chapter 2. We Suspect Missouri is the Objective Chapter 3. To the Arcadia Valley Chapter 4. General My Brigade Never Flickered Chapter 5. For God’s Sake Give Me Authority to Do Something Chapter 6. D--n the State, I Wish I Had Never Seen It Chapter 7. You are Home Boys, and I Do Not Want to Hurt You Chapter 8. Men of Kansas, Rally! Chapter 9. A Beautiful and Exciting Scene Chapter 10. I Can Stop Price at This Crossing Chapter 11. A Desperate Stand at Brush Creek Chapter 12. Rebels, Rebels, Fire, Fire Chapter 13. Lost Opportunity at Hart Grove Creek Chapter 14. Musketry Like Swarms of Lightning Bugs Chapter 15. I Don’t Give No Quarters Nor Will I Ask Anny Chapter 16. We All Experienced Tribulation This Day Chapter 17. There is Not an Enemy in a Hundred Miles Chapter 18. A Land of Starvation Chapter 19. Aftermath

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2015
• Reihe/Serie: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
• Zusatzinfo: 54 Illustrations including: - 33 Black & White Illustrations; - 21 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-4536-9 / 0742545369
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-4536-6 / 9780742545366