Battlefield Dispatches: 'Price in Missouri is Monstrous'

Friday, October 30, 2009

It is not surprising that "Union" Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis who commanded the Department of Kansas is 1864 would state that, "The idea of "PRICE" being anywhere IN MISSOURI IS MONSTROUS! To those Missourians of the "northern persuasion" and there were a great many during the Civil War this was true! However, to those of the "southern persuasion" in the Show-Me-State this was HERESY, because the second coming of Major General Sterling Price and his "Army of Missouri", hopefully, would liberate them from northern oppression & aggression! Alas, in retrospect Price's 1864 Campaign in Missouri and Kansas did not liberate Missouri from its' northern occupation and oppression. In fact, it created much hardship & suffering in both Missouri & Kansas and that is the reality of war, any war.

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