Bibliograph

Guerrilla hunters in Civil War Missouri, James W. Erwin

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Guerrilla hunters in Civil War Missouri, James W. Erwin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Guerrilla hunters in Civil War Missouri

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

James W. Erwin

Summary

The guerrillas who terrorized Missouri during the Civil War were colorful men whose daring and vicious deeds brought them a celebrity never enjoyed by the Federal soldiers who hunted them. Many books have been written about William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, George Todd, Tom Livingston and other noted guerrillas. You have probably not heard of George Wolz, Aaron Caton, John Durnell, Thomas Holston or Ludwick St. John. They served in Union cavalry regiments in Missouri, where neither side showed mercy to defeated foes. They are just five of the anonymous thousands who, in the end, defeated the guerrillas and have been forgotten with the passage of time. This is their story

Target audience

adult

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