Title: Portraits of conflict : a photographic history of Missouri in the Civil War /
Authors: Piston, William Garrett; Sweeney, Thomas P., 1943-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Documentary photography Missouri History; Missouri History Pictorial works.; Missouri History Photography.; United States History Pictorial works; United States History Photography.; Missouri
Abstract: "This volume ... includes hundreds of photographs, many of them never before published. The authors provide text and commentary, organizing the photographs into chapters covering the origins of war, its conventional and guerrilla phases, the war on the rivers, medicine ... the experiences of Missourians who served out of state, and the process of reunion in the postwar years"--Fly leaf.
Contents: Photography in Missouri during the Civil War -- The long road to war -- Securing Missouri for the Union -- Confederate initiatives and their consequences -- The guerrilla war -- Missourians and the war on the rivers -- Civil War medicine in Missouri -- Missourians serving out of state -- Missouri's veterans.