Synopses & Reviews
"The long agony" was over: Kansas, as of January 29, 1861, was a state—it had "moved to America." In Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, and other towns Kansans celebrated the "glorious news" of the coming of statehood in a "fury of excitement." Cannons boomed, cheering crowds gathered on the street corners, a judge and a militia general stood on their heads, and the saloons were scenes of inebriated revelry.
So begins Albert Castel's classic history of Kansas during the Civil War. Long recognized as a key study on the war in the trans-Mississippi West, Civil War Kansas describes the political, military, social, and economic events of the state's first four years. Castel contributes to a better understanding of the Civil War in this region through a realistic presentation and analysis of the Kansas-Missouri border conflict, the operations of the Missouri guerrillas under Quantrill, and the Union and Confederate military campaigns in Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and Kansas itself.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Authorized Edition
Acknowledgments
1. The New State
2. The Political Gallery
3. The Jayhawkers
4. The Triumph of Lane
5. King Lane and General Blunt
6. The Bushwhackers
7. Lawrence
8. Order No. 11
9. The Tribulations of General Blunt
10. Lane Embattled
11. The Great Raid
12. Wartime Kansas
13. The End of the War
Bibliography
Index