Bibliograph

The Battle of Mine Creek, the crushing end of the Missouri campaign, Jeffrey D. Stalnaker

Type

Label

The Battle of Mine Creek, the crushing end of the Missouri campaign, Jeffrey D. Stalnaker

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Battle of Mine Creek

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jeffrey D. Stalnaker

Series statement

The History Press Civil War sesquicentennial series

Sub title

the crushing end of the Missouri campaign

Summary

In 1864, Union troops controlled much of the South, Sherman's men marched with impunity through Georgia and defeat at Gettysburg was a painful and distant memory. The Confederacy needed to stem the tide. Confederate major general Sterling Price led an army of twelve thousand troops on a desperate charge through Missouri to deliver the state to the Confederacy and dash President Lincoln's hopes for reelection. This daring campaign culminated with the Battle of Mine Creek. A severely outnumbered Union army crushed the Confederate forces in one of the war's largest and most audacious cavalry charges. Historian Jeff Stalnaker puts the reader in the saddle with the Union troopers as they destroy all hope for Rebel victory in the Trans-Mississippi

Target audience

adult

Classification