Series 4: Price’s Raid & Missouri’s Last Confederate Gamble (1864–1865) — Article 5 Missouri Final Days show how war ends unevenly—surrenders, paroles, and lingering violence—when the fighting stops but the fear does not. Missouri Final Days and the Legal End of the War The war did not end in Missouri with a single, clean moment.…

Series 4: Price’s Raid & Missouri’s Last Confederate Gamble (1864–1865) — Article 3 Price’s Raid surges across Missouri—Glasgow, Lexington, and Westport show how movement, fear, and collapsing control turned roads into battlefields. Price’s Raid and the March Across Missouri Price’s Raid was not a single strike. It was a moving argument—pressed forward by speed, fed…

Series 4: Price’s Raid & Missouri’s Last Confederate Gamble (1864–1865) — Article 2 Pilot Knob reveals Price’s Raid at its bloodiest—Fort Davidson’s desperate defense, a night breakout, and a warning that Missouri would be fought town by town. Pilot Knob Battle and the Fort That Wouldn’t Hold Pilot Knob was not a long campaign. It…