Missouri in 1861 was a slave state whose loss would have opened the West to the Confederacy. John McElroy, a Union veteran and editor, tells how the war came there, how Nathaniel Lyon seized the initiative, and how Lyon, Franz Sigel and Samuel Sturgis fought the campaign that climaxed at Wilson’s Creek and its aftermath.
A detailed, partisan Union history of the war’s western border, useful to Civil War students. Download the free EPUB.