Caught Between Three Fires

For 11 years astride the Missouri-Kansas border Cass County endured the vortex of our nationâ s most violent confl ict. Citizens struggled between three raging fi res Secessionism Unionism and an undying Border War. Cass Countyâ s uncivil war intimate cruel and total suffered no man woman or child to escape loss or injury â their individual stories weave historyâ s fabric. Violent circumstances forged leaders who shaped Missouriâ s political and military history. Caught Between Three Fires for the fi rst time reconstructs a lost history erased by total destruction Order No. 11 and timeâ s purposeful neglect.