Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The storm before the hurricane
  • The military frenzy
  • United in spirit if not in readiness
  • Preserving Missouri for the union
  • Blood sacrifice
  • Radical impulse in the new west
  • The militant class of 1862
  • 1863: triumph in Mississippi and Arkansas
  • 1864: a heightened level of violence
  • The radical legacy
  • Epilogue.