The Prelude to Civil War - How Missouri became a battleground in the American Civil War - Part 1

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  @illinoismotionpicturestudi5065 · 4 years ago

  How do you have so little views with this amazing video? Great work, Missouri always gets pushed to the side.

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  @EndlessPraiseEnsemble · 2 years ago

  My ancestor, Marquis (Marcus) DeLafeyette Rose was in the 4th Missouri Calvary (Union). He joined in 1862 so he was part of the railroad defense in Northern Missouri. He lived and died in Warrensburg. <br><br>Thank you so much for this video! Missouri Civil War history is not as well known .

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  @2012photograph · 2 years ago

  Alot these Generals is first time brought my attention.Thank you for knowledge on Civil War

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  @sheldoniusRex · 3 months ago

  I&apos;m originally from Oklahoma but have lived most of my adult life in Missouri after I got out of the Army. It&apos;s very weird learning about so much history taking place in towns I know or even have lived in.

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  @idrinklight44 · 1 year ago

  True story, my Great Grandfather has a gentleman buried next to him with the name, Camp Jackson.

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  @shellnexus1 · 3 years ago

  Can’t believe I’m a whole year late but this is great content and deserve more views!!

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  @tomotto3197 · 3 years ago

  Outstanding detail, (none of the others catch) I have to watch it over and over again to catch all the detail.

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  @MidMo4020 · 1 year ago

  My family is from the “Kingdom of Callaway” Settled in Hatton before the war of northern aggression..

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  @dadbot8480 · 4 years ago

  He’s one of the best with just four videos

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  @TheAnarchitek · 2 years ago

  I had a lot of outlaws, er, relatives, from the west-southwest part of Missouri. &nbsp;Both side of my maternal grandparents came out of that neck of the woods. &nbsp;Their families had traveled from eastern Kentucky/Tennessee, in search of better farmland. &nbsp;My great-grandpa raised prized horseflesh. &nbsp;Prized by outlaws, it&apos;s said, who often traveled from as far away as 300 miles for one of his ponies. &nbsp;He went into the phone business, in the early days of Oklahoma statehood.

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  @cartert2 · 2 years ago

  I’m glad to see a video of the Trans-Mississippi theater and particularly Missouri but, this has several minor mistakes, from mispronunciation of names and places, to actual facts. None of them takes away from the overall history but are an annoyance when you’ve spent nearly a lifetime researching the war in this region. An example of the mistakes I feel should be corrected is the casualties at Carthage. It appears the writers took the casualties straight from Wikipedia without double checking. In the book The Battle of Carthage: Border War in Southwest Missouri, by David C. Hinze and Karen Farnham (1997) they give Missouri State Guard losses at 12 killed, 64 wounded and 1 missing. They do say that they are unsure if the walking wounded were counted, which could place casualties higher. This is one of only two book length accounts of the battle that I’m aware of the other being, The Battle of Carthage, Missouri: First Trans-Mississippi Conflict of the Civil War by Kenneth E. Burchett (2012). The other mistake is the location of Price’s camp on Cowskin Prairie, the video claims it to be in Arkansas but, it was in Missouri, 4 miles north of the Arkansas border and 4 miles east of Oklahoma, near present day Southwest City, in McDonald County, MO. Price would not be ran out of the state until February 1862.

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  @NecroMalkor · 4 years ago

  What a video! Great work, keep grinding my friend, this channel is such a hidden gem :P

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