Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerrilla Warrior

Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerrilla Warrior - The Man, the Myth, the Soldier, by Paul R. Peterson. The war in Missouri was vastly different from the set-piece encounters in Virginia and Tennessee. Here the war was personal, and no injury was forgotten or forgiven. In that environment, Quantrill’s accomplishments rivaled those of John S. Mosby’s partisan rangers and Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Cavalry. But Quantrill’s victories are labeled as massacres, and his men are judged to be murderers. In the end, the author discovers a vastly different Quantrill, a leader who assessed the border situation and devised an effective military solution to the problems he faced. The result was what we know now as modern guerrilla warfare. (504 pages, 9.5” x 6.75”, Hardcover) – Item #3756