War to the knife : bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861

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Location	Collection	Call #
Andrew Carnegie Free Library	Civil War	973.711 GOODRI
Location	Andrew Carnegie Free Library
Collection	Civil War
Call Number	973.711 GOODRI

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Booklist Review: "From the admirable Black Flag (1995), a history of guerrilla warfare in the western theater of the Civil War, Goodrich turns to the rehearsal for that warfare: the "Bleeding Kansas" struggle of 1854-61, when proslavery and free-soil militants slaughtered one another and innocent bystanders over whether Kansas should be a slave or a free state. During the fighting, both John Brown and William Quantrill began their careers, and the fighting also polarized supporters of both factions elsewhere in the country, accelerating the slide toward war. Goodrich is exemplarily impartial (unless one can call a distaste for bigoted thuggery a partiality), omits few of the gory details of his subject, and generally offers a more-than-adequate history of an episode whose horrifying body count is passed over too lightly too often. Perhaps the book is for dedicated (not to mention strong-stomached) Civil War students, but all of them, and collections catering to them, will find it invaluable. (Reviewed April 1, 1998)0811719219Roland Green"
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Subjects	Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861. Kansas -- History, Military. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Publisher	Mechanicsburg, PA :Stackpole Books,1998
Edition	1st ed.
Language	English
Description	v, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.
ISBN	0811719219
Other	Classic View