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CHAPTER 1
MISSOURI IN THE WAR
INTRODUCTORY — THE ADMISSION OF MISSOURI TO THE UNION — THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTEST BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH — THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE —THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL — NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT AID SOCIETIES — THE NATIONAL ELECTION IN 1860 — THE SOUTHERN ELEMENT DIVIDED — DANGEROUS POSITION OF THE STATE — NEW PARTY ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS — THE SOUTHWEST EXPEDITION

CHAPTER II
THE LEGISLATURE MEETS — GOVERNOR STEWART’S FAREWELL MESSAGE — GOVERNOR JACKSON’S INAUGURAL — BILLS TO CALL A STATE CONVENTION AND TO ORGANIZE THE STATE MILITIA — THE CONVENTION BILL PASSED — VEST’S RESOLUTION — ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO THE STATE CONVENTION — FATE OF THE BILL TO ARM THE STATE

CHAPTER III
THE STATE CONVENTION — STERLING PRICE ELECTED PRESIDENT — COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL RELATIONS REPORTS AGAINST SECESSION — THE CONVENTION ADOPTS THE REPORT AND ADJOURNS — THE HOUSE AGAIN REFUSES TO ARM THE STATE — ST. LOUIS POLICE BILL — HOME GUARDS AND MINUTE MEN — GENERAL FROST AUTHORIZED TO TAKE THE ARSENAL — BLAIR APPEALS TO THE PRESIDENT — CAPTAIN NATHANIEL LYON AT ST. LOUIS — THE LIBERTY ARSENAL SEIZED — MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS UNDER FROST AND LYON

CHAPTER IV
PRESIDENT DAVIS SENDS SIEGE GUNS — BLAIR AND LYON PREPARE TO TAKE THE CAMP AND THE GUNS — FROST SURRENDERS — HOME GUARDS FIRE ON THE CROWD — THE LEGISLATURE ACTS PROMPTLY — REIGN OF TERROR IN ST. LOUIS — THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES A MILITARY FUND — STERLING PRICE COMMANDER OF THE STATE GUARD — THE PRICE-HARNEY AGREEMENT — HARNEY SUPPLANTED BY LYON — THE PLANTER’S HOUSE CONFERENCE

CHAPTER V
GOVERNOR JACKSON CALLS OUT THE MILITIA — JEFFERSON CITY ABANDONED — CONCENTRATION AT BOONEVILLE — RAILROAD BRIDGES DESTROYED — COLONEL HOLLOWAY’S DEATH — PRICE GOES TO LEXINGTON — LYON OCCUPIES THE CAPITAL — SKIRMISH AT BOONEVILLE — THE GOVERNOR STARTS SOUTHWEST — A FEDERAL REGIMENT ROUTED AT COLD CAMP — JUNCTION OF JACKSON AND RAINS — VICTORY AT CARTHAGE

CHAPTER VI
LYON LEAVES BOONEVILLE FOR THE SOUTHWEST — PRICE REINFORCED BY McCULLOCH AND PEARCE — THEY START TO THE GOVERNOR’S RESCUE — THE RENDEZVOUS AT COWSKIN PRAIRIE — THE COMBINED FORCE MOVES TOWARD SPRINGFIELD — LYON ADVANCES TO MEET THEM — THE BATTLE OF WILSON’S CREEK — DEATH OF LYON — A FRUITLESS VICTORY

CHAPTER VII
SIGEL RETREATS TO ROLLA — McCULLOCH AND PEARCE RETURN TO ARKANSAS — FEDERAL DEFEAT AT DRYWOOD — PRICE INVESTS THE FEDERAL WORKS AT LEXINGTON — THE MOVING BREASTWORKS — MULLIGAN SURRENDERS — AN AFFAIR AT BLUE MILLS — GENERAL THOMPSON AND HIS OPERATIONS — PRICE COMPELLED TO RETREAT — THE LEGISLATURE AT NEOSHO PASSES AN ACT OF SECESSION — MEMBERS OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS CHOSEN — FREMONT’S BODYGUARD DEFEATED AT SPRINGFIELD — HUNTER SUCCEEDS FREMONT AND RETREATS — REORGANIZATION OF THE STATE TROOPS — FIRST AND SECOND CONFEDERATE BRIGADES

CHAPTER VIII
PRICE FALLS BACK TO ARKANSAS — AFFAIR AT SUGAR CAMP — PRICE AND McCULLOCH DISAGREE — VAN DORN TAKES PERSONAL COMMAND — THE BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE — McCULLOCH AND McINTOSH KILLED — VAN DORN RETREATS — VAN DORN’S OPINION OF THE MISSOURIANS — THE ARMY OF THE WEST ORDERED EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI — GENERAL PRICE’S ADDRESS TO HIS TROOPS

CHAPTER IX
THE MISSOURI TROOPS AT CORINTH — REORGANIZATION CONTINUED — THE FIRST MISSOURI INFANTRY — AFFAIR AT FARMINGTON — BEAUREGARD EVACUATES CORINTH — PRICE IN COMMAND IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI — FIGHTING AT IUKA — VAN DORN AND PRICE ATTACK CORINTH — PRICE SUCCESSFUL — VAN DORN FAILS — THE MISSOURIANS COMPLIMENTED — THE RETREAT — BOWEN’S STUBBORN FIGHTING — PRICE FINDS A WAY OUT

CHAPTER X
THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OPEN TO FEDERAL OCCUPATION — HINDMAN TAKES COMMAND — SHELBY GOES INTO MISSOURI TO RAISE A REGIMENT — BATTLE OF LONE JACK — THREE REGIMENTS ORGANIZED AT NEWTONIA — A BRIGADE FORMED WITH SHELBY COMMANDING — THE FIGHT AT NEWTONIA — HINDMAN SUPERSEDED — HOLMES ORDERS TROOPS OUT OF MISSOURI — THE DESPERATE FIGHT AT CANE HILL

CHAPTER XI
HINDMAN PREPARES FOR A CAMPAIGN — THE BATTLE OF PRAIRIE GROVE — BOTH ARMIES RETREAT — HOLMES ABANDONS THE UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEY — HINDMAN RELIEVED OF COMMAND IN THE WEST — MARMADUKE MOVES INTO MISSOURI — REPULSE AT SPRINGFIELD — A HARD FIGHT AT HARTVILLE

CHAPTER XII
THE MISSOURI BRIGADES OPPOSE GRANT BELOW VICKSBURG — DEATH OF COLONEL WILLIAM WADE — BATTLE OF PORT GIBSON — BATTLE OF BAKER’S CREEK — THE MISSOURIANS SAVE THE ARMY — AFFAIR AT BIG BLACK RIVER — SIEGE OF VICKSBURG — PROVISIONS FAIL — GENERAL GREEN AND COLONEL IRWIN KILLED — SURRENDER OF THE CITY AND THE ARMY — DEATH OF GENERAL BOWEN — THE MISSOURI BRIGADE

CHAPTER XIII
OPERATIONS IN THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT — GENERAL KIRBY SMITH ASSUMES COMMAND — MARMADUKE MAKES AN EXPEDITION INTO MISSOURI — THE AFFAIR AT BLOOMFIELD — BATTLE OF HELENA — STEELE MOVES ON LITTLE ROCK — BATTLE OF BAYOU METO — EVACUATION OF LITTLE ROCK — SHELBY PREPARES FOR AN EXPEDITION INTO MISSOURI

CHAPTER XIV
SHELBY’S RAID THROUGH MISSOURI — THE FIGHT NEAR MARSHALL — BRILLIANT EXPLOITS OF SHELBY’S COMMAND — MARMADUKE ATTACKS PINE BLUFF

CHAPTER XV
THE MISSOURI BRIGADE IN THE GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE CAMPAIGNS — SERVICE AT NEW HOPE CHURCH — AT KENESAW MOUNTAIN — IT CAPTURES ONE OF THE FORTS AT ALLATOONA — DISASTER AT FRANKLIN — REAR GUARD IN THE RETREAT FROM NASHVILLE — BLEDSOE’S BATTERY— GENERAL MAURY’S OPINION OF THE BRIGADE

CHAPTER XVI
GENERAL PRICE COMMANDS THE DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS — PARSONS’ DIVISION SENT TO GENERAL TAYLOR IN LOUISIANA — THE BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL — MARMADUKE OPPOSES STEELE’S ADVANCE — STEELE GOES TO CAMDEN — POISON SPRING — MARKS’ MILL — STEELE EVACUATES CAMDEN — BATTLE OF JENKINS’ FERRY — STEELE RETURNS TO LITTLE ROCK

CHAPTER XVII
MARMADUKE AND GREENE’S BRIGADE ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — THE BATTLE OF DITCH BAYOU — SHELBY GOES TO NORTH ARKANSAS — RIDS THE COUNTRY OF THE ROBBER BANDS — CAPTURES A GUNBOAT —AN ENGAGEMENT WITH CARR — CAPTURE OF AN ILLINOIS REGIMENT — FIGHTS AT BIG CYPRESS — PRICE CROSSES THE ARKANSAS AT DARDANELLE

CHAPTER XVIII
GENERAL PRICE’S EXPEDITION IN MISSOURI — THE SOUTHERN WOMEN OF MISSOURI — CLARK AND JACKMAN TAKE GLASGOW — FIGHT AT LITTLE BLUE — GUERRILLA WARFARE IN MISSOURI — A RETALIATION OF FEDERAL OUTRAGES — GENERAL HALLECK’S ORDER — LAWRENCE BURNED IN THE RETALIATION FOR THE BURNING OF OSCEOLA

CHAPTER XIX
PRICE’S ARMY ENCOUNTERS SEVERE FIGHTING — SHELBY COMES TO THE RESCUE — THE BATTLE OF NEWTONIA — HARDSHIPS OF THE RETREAT — THE COURT OF INQUIRY

CHAPTER XX
THE MISSOURI BRIGADE SENT TO THE DEFENSE OF MOBILE — GENERAL CANBY DECLINES AN OPEN FIELD FIGHT — THE TROOPS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI DESPONDENT — MAGRUDER AND SHELBY — GENERAL LEE’S SURRENDER — SHELBY ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO HIS TROOPS — GOES TO SHREVEPORT AND PROPOSES A PLAN OF ACTION — IT IS ADOPTED, BUT MISCARRIES — THE MISSOURI TROOPS STAND FIRM — SHELBY GOES TO MEXICO — THE END

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