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The Last Hurrah
Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864
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2015
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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.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4535-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-4536-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
431
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Preface No access
1 Sterling Price Is the State of Missouri No access Pages 1 - 26
2 We Suspect Missouri Is the Objective No access Pages 27 - 48
3 To the Arcadia Valley No access Pages 49 - 68
4 General, My Brigade Never Flickered No access Pages 69 - 92
5 For God’s Sake, Give Me Authority to Do Something No access Pages 93 - 110
6 D—n the State, I Wish I Had Never Seen It No access Pages 111 - 126
7 You Are Home Boys, and I Do Not Want to Hurt You No access Pages 127 - 146
8 Men of Kansas, Rally! No access Pages 147 - 170
9 A Beautiful and Exciting Scene No access Pages 171 - S
10 I Can Stop Price at This Crossing No access Pages 192 - 215
11 A Desperate Stand at Brush Creek No access Pages 216 - 229
