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Civil War Kansas : reaping the whirlwind / Albert Castel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castel, Albert, 1928-2014.
- Series:
- Modern war studies
- Standardized Title:
- Frontier state at war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kansas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Kansas.
- History.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 251 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Authorized edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1997]
- Summary:
- So begins Albert Castel's classic history of Kansas during the Civil War. Long recognized as a key study on the war in the trans-Mississippi West, Civil War Kansas describes the political, military, social, and economic events of the state's first four years. Castel contributes to a better understanding of the Civil War in this region through a realistic presentation and analysis of the Kansas-Missouri border conflict, the operations of the Missouri guerrillas under Quantrill, and the Union and Confederate military campaigns in Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and Kansas itself.
- Notes:
- Originally published: A frontier state at war. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1958. With new pref. and textual corrections.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0700608729
- OCLC:
- 37043888
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