Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861–1865"[A] thorough and comprehensive study of this tragic, almost forgotten episode of American history." —History |
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... fighting men of '56 and '57 are nearly to a man in the field , and ready for service . All around the eye meets the ... fight . . . . There is nothing talked about here except war . The boys of '56 ... have a grudge against Missouri and ...
... fighting off swarms of mosquitoes and flies , hunting an elusive , deadly adversary that refused to come out and be ... fight before morning I found it very hard to keep awake . For ninety - six hours I had had less than six hours of ...
... fight I have never seen as that was . . . . In less than a minute [ both sides ] were fighting on one acre of land . The smoke and the dust raised by the horses soon got so thick that it was almost impossible to distinguish friend from ...
Contents
May 24 1856 | 1 |
The Prairies Ablaze | 6 |
The Besom of Destruction | 11 |
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