The Collapse of Price's Raid facts for kids
Cover of the book
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| Author | Mark A. Lause |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Price's Raid |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
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2016 |
| Pages | 262 |
| ISBN | 978-0-8262-2025-7 |
The Collapse of Price's Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri is a 2016 book by Mark A. Lause and is the second volume in his series about Price's Raid (a campaign during the American Civil War), after Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri. The book, which is sourced to the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion and contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as to some secondary sources, takes up the story of Price's Raid in early October, after the goal of the campaign shifted, from being a full-scale invasion, to being a raid.
Reviewers noted that the book provided a detailed record of the troops’ movements in the campaign, and also described the political and racial aspects underlying reactions to the raid. The work was criticized for its lack of maps, including one reviewer’s assertion that many readers would be forced to use an atlas in following the narrative. It likewise was criticized for lacking a separate bibliography, and for its reading’s potential difficulty; still, the same reviewers also described the book as "well documented", and as useful to "serious students of the Civil War".
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The Collapse of Price's Raid was published in 2016 by the University of Missouri Press and was written by Mark A. Lause. As the second volume in the series, after Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri, it picks up the story of Price's Raid in the middle of the campaign in early October. By that point, Price had abandoned the idea of a full-scale invasion of Missouri, and instead began to focusing on raiding and gathering supplies. Two of the book's primary sources are the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion and various contemporary newspapers' accounts, although some secondary source material was used. Focuses of the book include the political considerations behind Union reactions to the raid, as well as the highly varied nature of the units, including Confederate States Army and Union Army personnel, in addition to various militia and bushwhacker units. The roles of African Americans and Native Americans are mentioned in the work, with Lause contending that race played a significant role in decision-making during the campaign. Also discussed are the effects of the raid on the local civilian populations.
