A rough business
Subtitle: fighting the Civil War in Missouri
By: edited with an introduction by William Garrett Piston
Contributors: State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher: State Historical Society of Missouri
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780981693941; 9780981693958
Subjects: History
Other titles: Missouri historical review.
Notes: "An anthology of articles from the Missouri Historical Review"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- WIlliam Garrett Piston; title: Calculated Confederate : Claiborne Fox Jackson and the strategy for secession in Missouri  -- Christopher Phillips; title: The Significant Skirmish: The Battle of Boonville, June 17, 1861  -- Paul Rorvig; title: 'A Friend of the Enemy': Federal Efforts to suppress Disloyalty in St. Louis During the Civil War  -- Louis S. Gerteis; title: 'I Acted From principle': William Marcellus McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon  -- Cynthia DeHaven Pitcock and Bill J. Gurley; title: The Union, the War, and Elvira Scott  -- Erin Kempker; title: 'Good War & Wood but the Country is a Miserable Botch' : Flatland Soldiers Confront the Ozarks  -- John F. Bradbury, Jr.; title: The 12th Missouri Infantry: A socio-Military Profile of a Union Regiment  -- Earl J. Hess; title: Texans invade Missouri: The Cape Girardeau Raid  -- Anne J. Bailey; title: Catalyst for Terror: The Collapse of the Women's Prison in Kansas City  -- Charles F. Harris; title: 'Bashi-Bazouks' and Rebels Too: Action at Camden Point, July 13, 1864  -- Scott A. Porter; title: 'Killed by Rebels' : A Civil War Massacre and Its Aftermath  -- Robert W. Frizzell; title: A Story Behind the Story of the 'Arkansas' and the 'Carondelet'  -- Mary Emerson Branch; title: Lafayette County and the Aftermath of Slavery, 1861-1870  -- John Starrett Hughes; title: The Abraham Lincoln Legacy in Missouri -- Gary R. Kremer