Civil War Kansas

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. <p/>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.