Homefront in Civil War Missouri
Published on 8. July 2014
107 pages
978-1-62584-809-3 (ISBN)
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Over one thousand Civil War engagements were fought in Missouri, and the conflict could not be quarantined from civilian life. In the countryside, the wives and mothers of absent soldiers had to cope with marauders from both sides. Children saw their fathers and brothers beaten, hanged or shot. In the cities, a cheer for Jeff Davis could land a young boy in jail, and a letter to a sweetheart in the Confederate army could get a girl banished from the state. Women volunteered to care for the flood of wounded and sick soldiers. Slavery crumbled and created new opportunities for black men to serve in the Union army but left their families vulnerable to retaliation at home. The turbulence and bitterness of guerrilla war was everywhere.
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James W. Erwin
The Homefront in Civil War Missouri
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07/2014
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
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James W. Erwin is a Missouri native. He graduated from Missouri State University with a BA in mathematics. After service in the United States Army, he obtained an MA in history from the University of Missouri and a JD from the University of Missouri Law School. He practiced law in St. Louis for more than thirty-seven years. Mr. Erwin is married to Vicki Berger Erwin. They live in Kirkwood, Missouri.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1. A Border State on the Cusp of the War
- 2. The Problem of Slavery in a Loyal Border State
- 3. Dispensing and Dispensing with Justice in a Guerrilla War
- 4. Missouri as Military Base
- 5. Living with Soldiers and Guerrillas: Rural Missouri in 1862
- 6. Religion and Religious Freedom in the Midst of Guerrilla War
- 7. Female Couriers, Female Soldiers and Children Fight the War
- 8. War Weariness Sets In: Rural Missouri in 1863-64
- 9. Medical Care and the Western Sanitary Commission
- 10. Confrontation, Emancipation and the Ironclad Oath
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- About the Author
