Quantrill and the Border Wars (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Connelley, William Elsey Elsey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451001940 ISBN 13 : 9781451001945

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Two sentences: Quantrill and the Border Wars brings the Civil War era on the Kansas–Missouri border to life with clear, documented detail. Readers gain a front‑row view of guerrilla fighting, bold leadership, and the costs of war.

This edition compiles absorbed notes and accounts to map the day‑to‑day reality of raids, battles, and the long shadow these events cast across communities. It centers on the February through November 1863 period and the men who shaped those border wars, offering context that helps readers understand how the conflict unfolded in this volatile region.

• Detailed narrative of key battles and raids on both sides of the border


• Character sketches and leadership decisions that influenced outcomes


• Descriptions of how civilians and towns were affected by the fighting


• Notes on how different accounts sometimes diverge and how historians approach them

Ideal for readers of American Civil War history, regional frontier conflicts, and anyone curious about the border era and its lasting legacy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

American history when two antagonistic fundamentals of government contended for supremacy. The devotion of adherents to respective principles was fanatical and fierce, and unusual animosities were engendered. By stormy conventions the two ideas of the destiny of our common country were reconciled in our growth to the Mississippi. Newly bound and hedged about, they were flung upon the soil of Missouri. But the compromise of a principle is a crime, and the feeble barriers set by time-serving statesmen became tense and strained. The advance-guard of a higher national life burst them asunder and emerged upon the Great Plains. There the contest to maintain itself became a grapple for the existence of the government, and ended in civil war. The story of the border is the history of preliminary forays and the shock of army upon army in the national contest. It covers ten years. In wealth of romantic incidents, stirring adventures, hair-breadth escapes, sanguinary ambuscades, deadly encounters, individual vengeance, relentless desolation of towns and communities, and bloody murder, no other part of America can compare with it. Some future Scott will make himself immortal by telling this wonderful story. This is the first effort, it is believed, to make any serious study of the conditions prevailing on the border. The state of society about Lawrence as shown in the year 1860 may be accepted as representative of the general conditions found in Kansas up to the Civil War, and no attempt to describe them has been found. The state of disorder in Missouri was the result in some degree of the reaction upon itself of its course inK
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451001940
• ISBN 13: 9781451001945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 551
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