Rabu, 02 Mei 2018

CWT Book Review: The Border Between Them

The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line by Jeremy Neely, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2007, 328 pages, $39.95. When Captain George S. James pulled the lanyard of a 10-inch mortar inside Fort Johnson at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, the Civil War officially began in Charleston Harbor. But men …

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