Volume 8 of the Washington History Series
"From early summer through September of 1864, the citizens of Franklin County, Missouri, believed, or hoped, the Confederates would go to western Missouri or east to St. Louis. October 1, 1864, showed that to be a forlorn hope as the Confederates entered the county all along its southern border," according to the cover text.
This is Walt Larson's second book concerning the Civil War in Franklin County. In Price's Raid and Franklin County, Missouri, Larson details the effect of the Confederate raid on the county through the lens of primary sources and newspaper articles.
