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

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