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The Homefront in Civil War Missouri

By James Erwin

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781625848093, 9781626194335, 2014019125
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2211204 bytes)
Series
Civil War
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-02 15:07:26
History; Nonfiction; HIS036000

Description

Over one thousand Civil War engagements were fought in Missouri, and the conflict could not be quarantined from civilian life. In the countryside, the wives and mothers of absent soldiers had to cope with marauders from both sides. Children saw their fathers and brothers beaten, hanged or shot. In the cities, a cheer for Jeff Davis could land a young boy in jail, and a letter to a sweetheart in the Confederate army could get a girl banished from the state. Women volunteered to care for the flood of wounded and sick soldiers. Slavery crumbled and created new opportunities for black men to serve in the Union army but left their families vulnerable to retaliation at home. The turbulence and bitterness of guerrilla war was everywhere.

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