The Great Missouri Raid : Sterling Price and the Last Major Confederate Campaign in Northern Territory

Forsyth, Michael J.

McFarland & Co Inc（2015/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 292 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786476954
• DDC分類 977.803

Full Description

In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army's Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South's last invasion of Northern territory.

But it was simply too late in the war for the South to achieve such an outcome, and Price grossly mismanaged the campaign, guaranteeing the defeat of his force and of the Confederate States. This book chronicles the Confederacy's desperate, final, ill-fated attempt to win a decisive victory.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. "It looks very much like war..."

2. A Passion for Missouri: The Rebel Invaders

3. A Team of Outcasts: The Yankees

4. "A blow that had destiny in it"

5. Crossing the River

6. "Thermopylae"

7. Lost Opportunities

8. The "Picnic Period"

9. Westport

10. "This has been a disastrous day!"

11. "This unfortunate campaign"

12. Epilogue

Appendix A—Chronology

Appendix B—Order of Battle

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index