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Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865

By Jay Monaghan

Book information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0803230915 9780803230910 0803281269 9780803281264
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2908636 bytes)
Pages
454\457
Topic
History
Time added
2017-03-11 14:40:58
1861-1865. Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861. États-Old -- History -- Civil WarSouthwest

Description

The author allows a new look at Quantrill's sacking of Lawrence, organized bushwhackery, and border battles that cost thousands of lives. Not the least valuable are chapters on the American Indians' part in the conflict. The record becomes devastatingly clear: the fighting in the West was the cruelest and most useless of the whole affair, and if men of vision had been in Washington in the 1850s it might have been avoided.

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