While Bobby Lee was giving the Federals fits in the East, Rebel insurgents turned this Western state into a lawless no man’s land. “You have all read of ‘wars, & horrors of war,’ among christianized civilized, & savages,” a weary Confederate observed from western Missouri in August 1862, “but I cannot convey to you the …
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