num_pages: 461
description: John Gordon decrees the family will remain neutral during the Civil War. But Yankee invaders torch mills, cornfields, and homes. Refugees flee south. The farm, society and law disintegrate. Surrender is inevitable, but until then the Gordons struggle to survive.
language: English
title: The Spectre of Death Rode the Land: A Southern Fmily Caught Up in Teh Union Invasion of Missouri 1861 - 1865
titlecomplete: The Spectre of Death Rode the Land: A Southern Fmily Caught Up in Teh Union Invasion of Missouri 1861 - 1865
publisher: Llumina Pr