Missouri's Civil War Blog

Published

• Anderson, Ephraim. Memoirs: Historical and Personal; Including the Campaigns of the First Missouri Confederate Brigade. St. Louis, MO: Times Printing Company, 1868.
• Bailey, George W. A Private Chapter of the War (1861-1865). St. Louis, MO: G.I. Jones and Company, 1880.
• Britton, Wiley. Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863. Chicago: Cushing, Thomas & Co., 1882.
• Britton, Wiley. The Civil War on the Border. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1899.
• Burch, John P. Charles W. Quantrell. Vega, TX: J.P. Burch, 1923.
• Edwards, John N. Noted Guerrillas, Or, The Warfare of the Border. St. Louis, MO: H.W. Brand & Co., 1879.
• Ford, S.E. Reminiscences of S.E. Ford [J.O. Shelby’s Brigade of Missouri Confederate Cavalry]. Owensboro, KY: Daughters of Confederate Veterans, 1909.
• Frost, M.O. Regimental History of the Tenth Missouri Volunteer Infantry. Topeka, KS: M.O. Frost Printing Company, 1892.
• Hance, C.H. Reminiscences of One Who Suffered in the Lost Cause [Missouri State Guard]. Los Angeles, CA: Kingsley, Mason, & Collins, Co., 1915.
• Lane, Peter D. Recollections of a Volunteer: A Memoir of the Civil War [16th Missouri Infantry].  Honey Creek Township, MO: P.D. Lane, 1865.
• McCorkle, John and O.S. Barton. Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story Told by His Scout. Armstrong, MO: Armstrong Herald Print, 1914.

Digital Repositories & Archives

• Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks, Springfield-Greene County Library System, Springfield, Missouri
• Digital Archives, The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
• Missouri’s Digital Heritage, Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, Jefferson City, Missouri
• Digital Collections, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri
• Trans-Mississippi Photo Archive, Springfield-Greene County Library System, Springfield, Missouri
• The Trans-Mississippi Theater Virtual Museum, Springfield-Greene County Library System, Springfield, Missouri
• Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, National Park Service, Republic, Missouri

General, Civil War in Missouri 

• A Rough Business: Fighting the Civil War in Missouri. Edited by William Garrett Piston. Columbia: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2012.  
• The Civil War in Missouri: Essays from the Missouri Historical Society Review, 1906-2006. Edited by William E. Parish. Columbia: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2006.
• Cutrer, Thomas W. Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.  
• Denny, James and John Bradbury. The Civil War’s First Blood: Missouri, 1854-1861. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2016. 
• Erwin, James. The Homefront in Civil War Missouri. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014.
• Gerteis, Louis S. The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2016. 
• McCoskrie, Joseph W. and Brian Warren. The Civil War Missouri Compendium: Almost Unabridged. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017.
• Piston, William Garrett and Thomas P. Sweeney. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Missouri in the Civil War. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
• Siddali, Silvana. Missouri’s War: The Civil War in Documents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. 
• Wolk, Gregory and Stuart Symington, Jr. Friend and Foe Alike: A Tour Guide to Missouri’s Civil War. St. Louis, MO: Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation, 2012.

Military, General/Traditional Warfare in Missouri, Battles

• Hess, Earl J., Richard W. Hatcher III, William Garrett Piston, and William Shea. Wilson’s Creek, Pea Ridge, & Prairie Grove. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2006. 
• Lause, Mark A. Price’s Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri. Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, 2011. 
• Lause, Mark A. The Collapse of Price’s Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri.  Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, 2016. 
• Patrick, Jeffrey. Campaign for Wilson’s Creek: The Fight for Missouri Begins.  Buffalo Gap, TX: McWhitney Foundation Press, 2011. 
• Piston, William Garrett and Richard W. Hatcher III, Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 
• Sinisi, Kyle. The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition of 1864. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 

Military & Cultural, Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri

• Beilein, Joseph M. Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2016.  
• Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border. Edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2014.  
• Brownlee, Richard S. Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
• Castel, Albert E. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
• The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth. Edited by Joseph Beilein. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.  
• Dyer, Robert L. Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
• Erwin, James W. Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2012. 
• Erwin, James W. Guerrilla Hunters in Civil War Missouri. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013.
• Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
• Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 
• Gieger, Mark. Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861-1865. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.  
• Gilmore, Donald L. Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2005. 
• Goodrich, Thomas. Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
• Goodrich, Thomas. Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1991. 
• Goodrich, Thomas. War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998.
• Hulbert, Matthew. The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 
• Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.
• Mackey, Robert E. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.  
• Monaghan, Jay. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 1984. 
• Mountcastle, Clay. Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.  
• Petersen, Paul. Quantrill at Lawrence: The Untold Story. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2011. 
• Petersen, Paul. Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 2007.
• Petersen, Paul. Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerrilla Warrior. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 2003.
• Starr, Stephen. Jennison’s Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and Its Commander. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. 
• Stiles, T.J. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. New York: Random House, 2002.
• Sutherland, Daniel E. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 
• Wood, Larry. The Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson. Fort Worth, TX: Eakin Press, 2003.

Cultural, Slavery in Missouri

• Burke, Diane Mutti. On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2010. 
• Epps, Kristen. Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Cultural, The American West

• Arenson, Adam. The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 
• Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States. Edited by Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
• Petersen, Paul and David W. Jackson. Lost Souls of the Lost Township. Kansas City, MO: The Orderly Pack Rat, 2011.
• Phillips, Christopher. The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 
• Stanley, Matthew W. The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.