Battlefield Dispatches No. 338: Blood on the ground

Friday, October 12, 2012

During the Civil War in the "Land of Misery," Union soldiers' nickname for Missouri. The pursuit of Confederate Guerrillas or Bushwhackers was often very frustrating because they appeared to be "phantoms of the day" as they disappeared into the brush only to reappear and fight once more.

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