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A brief civil war history of missouri kindle edition by baker jr james r download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading a brief civil war history of missouri. A brief history adapted from prologue to the civil wars first blood missouri 1854 1861 by james denny and john bradbury published by missouri life media despite their initial reluctance to sever ties with the union missourians who were fundamentally southern in culture and heritage constituted the majority of the states population. From 1861 to 1865 missouri was torn apart by the civil war the conflict brought violent military battles ruthless guerrilla warfare and a complete upheaval of the states institutions. During the american civil war missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both union and confederate sympathizers it sent armies generals and supplies to both sides was represented with a star on both flags maintained dual governments and endured a bloody neighbor against neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war