Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri: 1863
Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri: 1863
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil
War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work
explores the tactics with which each side attempted to gain advantage,
with regional differences as influenced by the personalities of local
commanders. The author utilizes both well-known and obscure sources
(including military and government records, private accounts, county and
other local histories, period and later newspapers, and secondary
sources published after the war) to identify which Southern partisan
leaders and groups operated in which areas of Missouri, and describe how
they operated and how their kinds of warfare evolved. The actions of
Southern guerrilla forces and Confederate behind-enemy-lines recruiters
are presented chronologically by region so that readers may see the
relationship of seemingly isolated events to other events over a period
of time in a given area. The counteractions of an array of different
types of Union troops fighting guerrillas in Missouri are also covered
to show how differences in training, leadership, and experiences
affected behaviors and actions in the field.