Confederate Military History - Missouri Volume

This set was written by distinguished men of the South, producing a work which truly portrays the times and issues of the Confederacy. It was edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia.

Two volumes--the first and the last--comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the existing magnificent territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States, supplemented with sketches of the President, Vice-President, cabinet officers and other officials of the government; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. We have combined these two volumes into one "Causes of the War" volume.

There are also individual volumes for each state: Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas & Florida. An additional volume covers the Confederate Navy.

Each state being treated in a separate history allows space for details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its own heroes, and its battlefields. These volumes contain information on each unit; where, when, and by whom the unit was formed. There are also some Rosters.

Table of Contents for the Missouri volume

CHAPTER I. Introductory--The Admission of Missouri to the Union--The Beginning of the Contest Between the North and the South--The Missouri Compromise--The Kansas-Nebraska Bill--New England Emigrant Aid Societies--The National Election in 1860--The Southern Element Divided--Dangerous Position of the State--New Party Organizations and Leaders--The Southwest Expedition

CHAPTER III. The State Convention--Sterling Price Elected President--Committee on Federal Relations Reports Against Secession--The Convention Adopts the Report and Adjourns--The House Again Refuses to Arm the State--St. Louis Police Bill--Home Guards and Minute Men--General Frost Authorized to Take the Arsenal--Blair Appeals to the President-Capt Nathaniel Lyon at St. Louis--The Liberty Arsenal Seized-- Military Organizations under Frost and Lyon

CHAPTER IV. President Davis Sends Siege Guns-- Blair and Lyon Prepare to Take the Camp and the Guns--Frost Surrenders---Home Guards Fire on the Crowd--The Legislature Acts Promptly--Reign of Terror in St. Louis--The Legislature Provides a Military Fund--Sterling Price Commander of the State Guard--The Price-Harney Agreement--Harney Supplanted by Lyon--The Planter's House Conference

CHAPTER V. Governor Jackson Calls Out the Militia--Jefferson City Abandoned--Concentration at Boonville--Railroad Bridges Destroyed--Colonel Holloway's Death--Price Goes to Lexington--Lyon Occupies the Capital--Skirmish at Booneville---The Governor Starts Southwest--A Federal Regiment Routed at Cold Camp--Junction of Jackson and Rains---Victory at Carthage

CHAPTER VI. Lyon Leaves Boonville for the Southwest--Price Reinforced by McCulloch and Pearce-- They Start to the Governor's Rescue--The Rendezvous at Cowskin Prairie--The Combined Force Moves toward Springfield--Lyon Advances to Meet Them--The Battle of Wilson's Creek--Death of Lyon--A Fruitless Victory

CHAPTER VII. Sigel Retreats to Rolla--McCulloch and Pearce Return to Arkansas--Federal Defeat at Drywood--Price Invests the Federal Works at Lexington--The Moving Breastworks--Mulligan Surrenders-- An Affair at Blue Mills--General Thompson and His Operations--Price Compelled to Retreat--The Legislature at Neosho Passes an Act of Secession--Members of the Confederate Congress Chosen--- Fremont's Bodyguard Defeated at Springfield--Hunter Succeeds Fremont and Retreats--Reorganization of the State Troops--First and Second Confederate Brigades

CHAPTER VIII. Price Falls Back to Arkansas--Affair at Sugar Camp--Price and McCulloch Disagree--- Van Dorn Takes Personal Command--The Battle of Pea Ridge--McCulloch and Mcintosh Killed--Van Dorn Retreats--Van Dorn's Opinion of the Missourians--The Army of the West Ordered East of the Mississippi--General Price's Address to His Troops

CHAPTER IX. The Missouri Troops at Corinth--Reorganization Continued--The First Missouri Infantry-- Affair at Farmington--Beauregard Evacuates Corinth--Price in Command in Northern Mississippi--Fighting at Iuka--Van Dorn and Price Attack Corinth--Price Successful--Van Dorn Fails--The Missourians Complimented--The Retreat--Bowen's Stubborn Fighting--Price Finds a Way Out

CHAPTER X. The Trans-Mississippi Department Open to Federal Occupation--Hindman Takes Command--Shelby Goes into Missouri to Raise a Regiment--Battle of Lone Jack--Three Regiments Organized at Newtonia--A Brigade Formed with Shelby Commanding--The Fight at Newtonia --Hindman Superseded--Holmes Orders Troops Out of Missouri--The Desperate Fight at Cane Hill

CHAPTER XI. Hindman Prepares for a Campaign--The Battle of Prairie Grove--Both Armies Retreat-- Holmes Abandons the Upper Arkansas Valley--Hindman Relieved of Command in the West--Marmaduke Moves into Missouri--Repulse at Springfield--A Hard Fight at Hartville

CHAPTER XII. The Missouri Brigades Oppose Grant Below Vicksburg--Death of Col. William Wade--- Battle of Port Gibson--Battle of Baker's Creek--The Missourians Save the Army--Affair at Big Black River--Siege of Vicksburg--Provisions Fail--General Green and Colonel Irwin Killed--Surrender of the City and of the Army--Death of General Bowen--The Missouri Brigade

CHAPTER XIII. Operations in the Trans-Mississippi Department--General Kirby Smith Assumes Command--Marmaduke Makes an Expedition into Missouri--The Affair at Bloomfield--Battle of Helena-- Steele Moves on Little Rock--Battle of Bayou Meto--Evacuation of Little Rock--Shelby Prepares for an Expedition into Missouribr>

CHAPTER XIV. Shelby's Raid through Missouri--The Fight near Marshall--Brilliant Exploits of Shelby's Command-Marmaduke Attacks Pine Bluff

CHAPTER XV. The Missouri Brigade in the Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns--Service at New Hope Church--At Kenesaw Mountain--It Captures One of the Forts at Allatoona-Disaster at Franklin--Rear Guard in the Retreat from Nashville--Bledsoe's Battery--General Maury's Opinion of the Brigade

CHAPTER XVI. General Price Commands the District of Arkansas---Parsons' Division Sent to General Taylor in Louisiana--The Battle of Pleasant Hill--Marmaduke Opposes Steele's Advance--Steele Goes to Camden--Poison Spring--Marks' Mill--Steele Evacuates Camden--Battle of Jenkins' Ferry--Steele Returns to Little Rock

CHAPTER XVII. Marmaduke and Greene's Brigade on the Mississippi River--The Battle of Ditch Bayou-- Shelby Goes to North Arkansas--Rids the Country of the Robber Bands--Captures a Gunboat--An Engagement with Carr--Capture of an Illinois Regiment--Fights at Big Cypress--Price Crosses the Arkansas at Dardanelle

CHAPTER XVIII. General Price's Expedition in Missouri--The Southern Women of Missouri--Clark and Jackman Take Glasgow--Fight at Little Blue--Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri--A Retaliation of Federal Outrages--General Halleck's Order--Lawrence Burned in the Retaliation for the Burning of Osceola

CHAPTER XIX. Price's Army Encounters Severe Fighting--Shelby Comes to the Rescue--The Battle of Newtonia--Hardships of the Retreat--The Court of Inquiry

CHAPTER XX. The Missouri Brigade Sent to the Defense of Mobile--General Canby Declines an Open Field Fight--The Troops West of the Mississippi Despondent--Magruder and Shelby--General Lee's Surrender--Shelby Issues an Address to His Troops--Goes to Shreveport and Proposes a Plan of Action--It is Adopted, but Miscarries--The Missouri Troops Stand Firm--Shelby Goes to Mexico--The End

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