Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind?the Authorized Edition with a New Preface

By Albert E. Castel

Book Overview

"The long agony" was over: Kansas, as of January 29, 1861, was a state--it had "moved to America." In Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, and other towns Kansans celebrated the "glorious news" of the coming of statehood in a "fury of excitement." Cannons boomed, cheering crowds gathered on the street corners, a judge and a militia general stood on their heads, and the saloons were scenes of inebriated revelry.

So begins Albert Castel's classic history of Kansas during the Civil War. Long recognized as a key study on the war in the trans-Mississippi West, Civil War Kansas describes the political, military, social, and economic events of the state's first four years. Castel contributes to a better understanding of the Civil War in this region through a realistic presentation and analysis of the Kansas-Missouri border conflict, the operations of the Missouri guerrillas under Quantrill, and the Union and Confederate military campaigns in Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, and Kansas itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608729
• ISBN13: 9780700608720
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"