The Great Missouri Raid: Sterling Price and the Last Major Confederate Campaign in Northern Territory

Michael J. Forsyth

The Great Missouri Raid: Sterling Price and the Last Major Confederate Campaign in Northern Territory
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Country
United States
Published
13 March 2015
Pages
292
ISBN
9780786476954

The Great Missouri Raid: Sterling Price and the Last Major Confederate Campaign in Northern Territory

Michael J. Forsyth

In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army’s Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South’s last invasion of Northern territory.

But it was simply too late in the war for the South to achieve such an outcome, and Price grossly mismanaged the campaign, guaranteeing defeat of his force and the Confederate States. This book chronicles the Confederacy’s desperate final and ill-fated attempt win a decisive victory.

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