Awards

• Runner-up for Honorable Mention for Best Civil War book of 2015 by The Civil War Monitor 2015
• Runner-up for “Honorable Mention” for Best Civil War book of 2015 by The Civil War Monitor 2015
• Winner of A.M. Pate Jr. Prize for best book published on the history of the Trans-Mississippi Civil War (sponsored by the Fort Worth Civil War Roundtable) 2015
• Winner of “Honorable Mention” for Best Civil War book of 2015 by The Civil War Monitor 2015

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Cutting through 150 years of myths and misinformation surrounding Price's Raid, Kyle Sinisi provides a compelling study of breadth and depth, demonstrating why the Trans-Mississippi was the most interesting theater of the Civil War. A judicious, balanced, and nuanced account of perhaps the least studied and most misunderstood major campaign of the war. -- William Garrett Piston, Missouri State University, co-author of Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It Kyle Sinisi provides a long-needed analysis of the last major military operation west of the Mississippi River. Sinisi challenges long-held assumptions about Sterling Price's disastrous 1864 Missouri invasion while addressing the unique machinations of Kansas and Missouri politics, examining the many battles that marked the raid's progress, and confronting the atrocities committed by both sides on each other and the civilian population. The Last Hurrah is essential reading for anyone interested in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the Civil War. -- Mark K. Christ, Arkansas Historic Preservation, author of Civil War Arkansas 1863: The Battle for a State No scholar has explained Sterling Price's desperate attempt to capture Missouri in the fall of 1864 as thoroughly or as thoughtfully as has Kyle S. Sinisi. His engaging and well-researched exploration of this last hurrah for Confederates in the Trans-Mississippi reveals the full complexity of Price's ill-fated campaign, from its improbable origins to its messy aftermath. -- Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas, author of A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War As part of the Confederacy's final effort to use war to achieve thwarted political goals, Sterling Price's invasion of Missouri sought to swing the presidential election by invigorating the western dissent movement. For the Confederates, it was an inglorious end to their stubborn dream of independence sounded far from the remaining southern fronts. Kyle S. Sinisi has told this tale better than anyone, combining its military, political, social, and ideological elements into a compelling historical narrative of loss. -- Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati, author of The Civil War in the Border South

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Kyle S. Sinisi is professor of history at The Citadel. He is author of Sacred Debts: State Civil War Claims and American Federalism, 1861–1880 and co-editor of Warm Ashes: Essays in Southern History at the Dawn of the 21st Century.

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