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In 1864, General Sterling Price with an army of 12,000 ragtag Confederates invaded Missouri in an effort to wrest it from the United States Army's Department of Missouri. Price hoped his campaign would sway the 1864 presidential election, convincing war-weary Northern voters to cast their ballots for a peace candidate rather than Abraham Lincoln. It was the South's last invasion of Northern territory. But it was simply too late in the war for the South to achieve such an outcome, and Price grossly mismanaged the campaign, guaranteeing defeat of his force and the Confederate States. This book chronicles the Confederacy's desperate final and ill-fated attempt win a decisive victory.

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Forsyth continues his streak of quality works on campaigns in the Trans-Mississippi with this book...anyone interested in the war in the Trans-Mississippi would be wise to pick up this title --<i>Civil War News</i>; well written --<i>The Journal of America's Military Past</i>.

Forsyth continues his streak of quality works on campaigns in the Trans-Mississippi with this book...anyone interested in the war in the Trans-Mississippi would be wise to pick up this title --Civil War News; well written --The Journal of America's Military Past.

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Michael J. Forsyth is a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in the United States Army. He writes articles for Gettysburg Magazine, Field Artillery and Military Review.

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