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Series 4: Price’s Raid & Missouri’s Last Confederate Gamble (1864–1865) — Article 1 Price’s Raid begins as Confederate forces move out of Arkansas toward Pilot Knob, testing Union control and reigniting Missouri’s war in 1864. Price’s Raid did not begin with one dramatic battle. It began with movement. With a column crossing a border and…
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Series 4: Price’s Raid & Missouri’s Last Confederate Gamble (1864–1865) — Introduction Price’s Raid begins in 1864 as the Confederacy’s last gamble for Missouri—an invasion meant to reclaim the state and reshape the war in the West. Price’s Raid was the Confederacy’s last serious attempt to bring Missouri into its orbit. Not with speeches. Not…
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Series 3: The Guerrilla Years (1862–1864) — Article 6 Centralia Massacre shows Missouri’s guerrilla war at its worst—sudden violence, no front lines, and a state where fear became the map. The Centralia Massacre was not a conventional battle. It was a rupture. A moment that exposed what Missouri’s guerrilla war had become when retaliation, rumor,…