As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. In The Collapse of Price’s Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. Lause examines the complex political and social context of what became known as “Price’s Raid,” the final significant Southern operation west of the Mississippi River. (Amazon.com)

Prologue : the making of a raid : the spectre of Quindaro -- The raid and the pursuit. Of liberation and occupation : Boonville, October 8-13 -- The railroad : Sedalia to Warrensburg, October 14-18 -- The river : Glasgow and beyond the Missouri, October 14-17 -- The third army. Arrival of the Army of the Border : to Lexington and beyond, October 17-20 -- From the Little Blue to the Big Blue : the fight for Independence, October 21 --The Big Blue and the reprise : from Independence to the Kansas line, October 22 -- October 23. Brush Creek : from the mists -- Byram's Ford through Bloody Hill : the late morning -- Across the prairie to Indian Creek : the afternoon into the night -- Union victories. Flight and pursuit : Indian Creek to the Mounds, October 24-25 -- Judgment day : the Mounds, Trading Post, Mine Creek, Charlot, and the Marmiton, October 25 -- Into the Ozarks : to Newtonia and beyond, October 26-31 -- Epilogue : sins of the fathers : November's decision.