Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 (Yale Series in Economic History)

by M W Geiger (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $102.71

  Explores a financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. This book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, it reveals the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.