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The Battle of Chalk Bluff By Jerry Ponder |
| Jerry Ponder traces General Marmaduke's raid from its start in Arkansas to its termination at Chalk Bluff, giving attention to each action of the raid and the units and men involved from both sides. This book adds to the knowledge about the Trans-Mississippi theater of the war. Soft Cover. 151 pages. Indexed. Retail $13.95 Your price $ 8.37 |
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Behind Enemy Lines By Brig. Gen. Sidney Jackman |
| Compiled and arranged by Rick Norton of Oak Hills Publishing, this is an important contribution to the historiography of the Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi. Marked by wit and candor, his writings provide an insights into the small unit actions and guerrilla skirmishes that typified the war in Missouri. It includes unknown recordings of the battle of Lone Jack. Foot notes. Fully indexed. Retail $16.95 Your Price $10.17 |
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Bravest of the Brave: A History of Maj. Lebbeus Pindall's 9th Missouri Battalion of Sharpshooters By Carolyn M. Bartels |
| It is aptly described by " While the country will long mourn the loss of the gallant officers and men who fell as martyrs to our cause, the historians of this revolution will record them as ‘the bravest of the brave." M. M. Parsons. Pindall led his men into the thickest of battles, operating as advance on most occasions. The first ones in and the last ones out. Battle reports detailing involvements, full a roster as could be located, casualty lists, desertions, promotions, and surrender. 106 pages. Retail $12.95. Soft-cover edition. Your price $7.77 |
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Forgotten Valor By James W. Farley |
| The first complete account of the 1st Missouri Cavalry Unit, led by Colonel Elijah Gates. This book has received rave reviews! Farley, in the first 200 pages, takes the reader from the early formation of the Confederate regiment, thru each and every battle, as they followed their beloved commander. Excellent maps drawn by William Lay add to this great work. In the last section are all the rosters with pertinent information found within the files. Soft cover. 487 pages. Retail $32.95 Your price $19.77 |
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Campaigning With Marmaduke: Narratives and Roster of the 8th Missouri Cavalry CSA By James E. McGhee |
| Jim again does an excellent job on this primary source material. Included is everything that appeared on data cards within the roster. Narrative is from two diaries which tell of day to day activities of Jeffers' 8th Cavalry. Fully foot-noted and indexed. Soft cover. Retail $14.95 Your price $8.97 |
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Civil War Years of Clay County Missouri, 1861-1865 By Carolyn M. Bartels |
| Fascinating accounts of a strife torn county by the division of her Pro-Southern and Pro-Union citizens beginning with 1860. 69 pgs. Soft-cover. Retail $9.00 Your price $5.40 |
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The Forgotten Men By Carolyn M. Bartels |
| The men at least, over 7000 of the Missouri State Guard, now have an identity. The author has kept the story, and, or the deposition the men gave concerning their service in Missouri's earliest pro-southern army. An excellent primary source reference. The names are listed in alphabetical order within 406 pages of text. There is another name index of 3000 plus entrees for the many other names found within the files of the men. A casualty list (C W Casualty List) as extracted from these same files, is by name, and then reversed, and listed by event. Soft cover Retail $32.95. Your price $19.77 Hard cover Retail $42.95.Your price $25.77 |
Compiled by Wayne Schnetzer. Wayne has located over 4,000 more men who served as the Missouri State Guard. This book is a companion book to Forgotten Men by Carolyn Bartels. Wayne has found new information and or additional on many of her listing. Soft-cover edition. 8 ½ X 11. 273 pgs of names, plus a full index. Retail $25.00. Your price $15.00
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Bitter Tears: Civil War and the Women of Missouri By Carolyn M. Bartels |
| A story book dealing with Missouri women's experiences during the war. First hand accounts of some who felt the pain and wrath of invading armies. First one of its kind to deal with the everyday experiences of the common woman and her efforts during those terrible times. 200+ pages. Illustrated. Fully indexed. Soft Cover. Retail $13.95. Your price is $8.37 |
Arkansas Civil War Engagements By Carolyn M. Bartels
From start to finish within the State of Arkansas. Engagements were transcribed by date, across the state. Taken from the Official Records: War of the Rebellion. Great little vacation guide. Retail $6.00 Your price $4.00
Arkansas Deaths Union Prisons and Hospitals
By Carolyn M. BartelsRecords were taken way back into the early 1900's when the Confederate needed to be accounted for. This is a listing of those who died, either in camp or the camp hospital. Arranged by prison, and then by name. Gives name, rank, residence of some, date of death, and where captured, along with the grave number. Retail $11.00. Your price $6.00
Major General John S. Marmaduke’s CSA
By Jerry PonderJohn S. Marmaduke was at Pitman’s Ferry, Bowling Green, Murfreesboro, Shiloh and Corinth and then he came to Arkansas. After moving to the Trans-Mississippi as Chief of Cavalry, District of Arkansas, he served in the battle of Cane Hill and Prairie Grove, Little Rock, Pine Bluff, and ending at Jenkins’ Ferry & Price’s 1864 invasion of Missouri, which resulted in his capture at Mine Creek, Kansas. After the war, Marmaduke was the first Confederate to hold a state office in Missouri. He was in term as Governor when he died. 300 pgs, soft-cover, Retail $17.95 Your price $10.77
Trans-Mississippi Order Book; Brig. General John S. Marmaduke
Transcribed from micro-film copy of the original by Carolyn M. Bartels. Never before published as a whole, Marmaduke’s Order Book has been used by many authors. We are super proud of this venture, compiled in conjunction with Missouri Order of the Stars and Bars. Never before seen casualty lists; behind the scenes look at day to day operations of a military division; conflicts, plans of strategy; movement orders; enlistments requirements; conscripts regulations; court-martial transcripts and sentences; execution orders; daily rations for an army; transfers and resignations of officers and enlisted men. Something for everyone who is a history seeker of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Fully indexed with over 3500 entries; Listings of Orders, special & general; appendix; You’ll be glad you invested Soft-cover edition in two volumes due to size at $47.00 for both. Your price $28.20 Hard cover edition in one volume Retail price $60.00. Your price $36.00. |
Reunion in Death: Burial Sites of Quantrill’s Men and Some of the James Gang.. By Duncan Hansen |
| It took Duncan Hansen some seventeen years of walking old cemeteries and at least a ton of correspondence to provide us with the closing chapter for these men. 314 pages of absolute interesting data, about 240 pictures of graves sites. Included is an obituary section that relays the last rites of passage for some and valuable personal information. Plus Duncan has added a cemetery appendix with locations and directions to each. Indexed. Magnificent illustrated Soft-cover Retail price $26.95. Your price $13.62. Hardcover at $36.95 Your price $22.17. |
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A Reunion in Death II: More Gravesites of Quantrill's Men. By Duncan Hansen. |
| A further listing of more of Quantrill's men. Duncan just kept at it after seeing how well Volume I was received. This volume brings the total of found members to well over 200! Soft cover. Retail price $24.95 Your price $13.77. |
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Johnson County Missouri in the Civil War By Bruce E. Nichols |
| Excellent work on his thesis and on a subject that in his text describes the terrible strife within the war-torn guerrilla infested regions of Johnson County. Fully foot-noted; indexed, soft-cover. Retail price $12.95 Your price $8.77. |
Boys of the Best Families in the State By Bob Schmidt
" Accepting a challenge made in 1999 for a book on Missouri Confederates, I have chosen Company E, 2nd Missouri Cavalry. My portrayal of the men of Company E is in three segments. First: Biographic profiles on each soldier. Their backgrounds and lives after the war are researched as well as possible. Seond: The soldiers service record is researched as well as possible from service records, letters home, stories handed down, etc. Third: Wartime conditions as they are said to have existed in Southeast Missouri - from the very homes of thosr men in Company E - is used whenever possible. Through a comfortable mix of history and genealogy, a better understanding of our war - The American Civil War - will hopefully emerge." Soft cover. 436 pages. Extensive source pages. Fully indexed. Retail price $29.95. Your price $17.97.
Babe of the Company.. Hamp Watts
Hamp Watts was the youngest member of Quantrill’s band. Leaving behind his account of some of the participation, they were republished by Oak Hills a few years back. Stock was sold out and Two Trails has reprinted the Oak Hills edition. Soft-cover booklet Retail price $3.50 Your price $2.75.
Cover drawing of Watts as drawn by himself as a young guerrilla.
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The Memoirs of Captain J.M. Bailey Transcribed and edited by J. Troy Massey |
| A new author among our midst from Arkansas. Massey located this valuable manuscript and now it is in its second printing. Set in Arkansas during the Civil War era, Captain Bailey writes in detail of his harrowing encounters with Yankee bummers, outlaw bands and in general the horrors of war on the family home front and in battle. Simply written with no fan fare, this book is as true to the facts as Captain Bailey was to his cause. Soft-cover, indexed, 130 pages, Retail price $16.95 Your price $10.17 |
Absalom Grimes Confederate Mail Runner
Released in the 1920's, Missourian's enjoyed this true story as told by Grimes. The book begins with a recounting of Grimes’ association with Samuel Clemens and their first organization of Rebel cavalrymen - with "Mark Twain" on his mule! Fantastic accounts, breath taking escapes. Soft cover Reprint, 216 pages. Retail price $16.95 Your price $10.17.
Journal of the State Senate of Missouri: The Act of Secession 1861
The original documents were located and transcribed. This encompasses the meetings in Neosho and Cassville, Missouri. The last entry is November 7th, 1861. A list of senators and short biographies are included. Retail price $9.00. Your price $6.00
General, You Have Made The Mistake of Your Life: General Thomas Ewing, Jr.
By Walter BuschThis thesis, by Walter Busch, is one of the very few books on Thomas Ewing's early legal and military careers. His decisions and paths of action, prior to, during, and after the Civil War was over, would haunt him for the balance of his political career. Excellent research on early Kansas and Jim Lane. The politics of the early border wars is covered in depth. 238 pages includes index, photographs, and maps. Retail price $17.95 Your price $10.77
This book is vital to all historians, re-enactors, members of any military history organization. This text is the VERY first organization of Missouri troops within the Confederacy; The Missouri State Guard. It details command structure; how to and how not to. Booklet form, 80 pages. Retail $5.95 Your price $4.00
This book ends May 14, 1861. See General Price Order and Letter Book for the picking up of this organization and its fulfillment. The letter book which details the actual putting in place of the early forces and commanders, details some court martials, orders, letters etc.. Staring on May 16, 2025 and ends in early 1862. Another reprint by Two Trails. The complete title is "The Battle of the Blue and the 2nd Regiment* K.S.M.* October 22, 2025 * The Fight* The Captivity* The Escape*.. The author of the book is James W. Steele. Printed in 1896, it was written with the express purpose of honoring the Kansas Regiment and those men who served within the ranks, at the dedication of the historical monument in Gage Park, Topeka, Kansas. The book details in depth, the involvement of the Second Kansas State Militia at Westport and just prior to that fight, the battle of Big Blue River. Rosters, casualty lists, etc. on the Kansas Regiment. Wonderful tribute and outstanding story. 156 pages, sc, Retail price $14.95 Your price $8.97Battle of Fredericktown By Jerry Ponder
Two Trails is pleased to announce the reprint of this valuable work. M. Jeff Thompson commanded the Missouri State guards in Southeast Missouri. U.S. Grant commanded the US Army of Southeast Missouri. Outnumbered four to one, Thompson's Missourians met Grant's Yankees at Fredericktown, south of St. Louis, on October 21, 1861. They inflicted damages four to one upon the Yankees. The battle was strictly Missouri troops against United States forces. Both Thompson and Grant would claim victory. This documented history, when first written, furnished true facts and proves which general was correct in claiming over all victory. Soft cover. 153 pages. Retail price $15.00 Your price $9.00.
By Carolyn Bartels.Text was taken from her ancestors eye-witness accounts as a participant in this famous battle. Additional information is included as taken from Capt. Mackey’s report as Price’s engineer, and a contributing witness in the inquiry into Price’s raid. Soft cover, 47 pgs. Retail price $4.50. Your price $3.25.
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Pilot Knob; The Thermopylae of the West Reprint of the original.. Compiled by Cyrus A. Peterson and Joseph Mills Hanson in 1914. |
| Original introduction and an added one by Walter Busch, curator of Fort Davidson State Historic Battlefield. Movements are followed by first hand accounts of the participants. Primarily the 2nd MSM, Montgomery’s battery, 2nd Mo. Light Artillery, the 47th MSM. Wonderful descriptive terms, told in their own words, these many contributors detail the famous battle that was Price’s first objective on his glorified raid of 1864. 270 pgs of text, plus the telegrams that survived are given in a special section.. Fully indexed, photo’s. Retail price $16.95 Your price $ 10.17. |
Carolyn Bartels researched the Wilson’s Creek records within the Official Records and naturally she rehashed the whole idea behind the downfall of the Union troops. Then she sorted out who was who, and who fought with who in this battle. See if you agree. soft-cover, Retail $5.50. Your price $3.50.
Charles Harris, renowned researcher and Quantrill Society member, has researched the use and origins of the Black Flag. Readers will find this small booklet exceptionally interesting. Mr. Harris explores the flag as an object and as a term of warfare. Many valuable references are noted. Small 5 X 8 size, Retail price $3.50 Your price $2,75.
Battles and Biographies of Missourians and/or The Civil War Period in Our State. By William Larkin Webb. First published in 1900, this book has become a classic and has been reprinted by Oak Hills Publishing Co. of Springfield, Missouri. Excellent biographies of men taken from interviews. From opening shots of the War in Missouri, to the last encounter in 1864, where "history will not condemn Price for saving his army." Good photos, 423 pages, Soft cover edition Retails at $22.00. Your price $13.20. Hard cover edition retails at $32.95. Your pric$19.77. (temporarily out of print - order in late January 2005)
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Alias Charley Hart By Charles Harris |
| Charles Harris, has researched the Charles Hart, long described in many accounts as actually William Quantrill. Documentation is all convincing, but the actual proof is in the written word. Harris has done a commendable project with this small booklet. Researchers of Quantrill will find this most interesting. 51/2 X 8, center stapled. Retail price $3.50 Your price $2.75. |
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The Civil War In Missouri Day By Day 1861 - 1865 The Missouri Classic! By Carolyn Bartels |
| Written in 1992, and reformatted in 2003 for easier reading, the book over the years has sold thousands of copies and is considered by most readers as a Missouri classic. The book is required and suggested reading for many Missouri Civil War re-enactors groups. From raids, battles, skirmishes, and the pursuit of the outlaw and guerrilla bands, the numerous Union scouting parties, right down to the systematic burning out of southern sympathizers; this book has something for each reader within its cover. Excellent gift for the Civil War reader. Soft-cover edition 231 pages Retail price $21.95. Your price $13.17. Hardcover edition retails at $32.95. Your price $19.77. Autographed upon request. This book now has a new format and easier to read composition. |
| Civil War Stories of Missouri By Carolyn Bartels, |
| A collection of light stores, gathered from old, out-of print county-histories and war records. It’s an easy read and not a lot of heavy thinking is required to enjoy it. Soft-cover, 330 pgs, Retail price $15.95. Your price $9.57. |
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True Tales of Civil War In Missouri By Carolyn Bartels.. |
| Another story book, with content taken from military records, old county-histories, and personal family files of our readers. Something for every preference in this work. About 225 + pages, full index, illustrations. Retails at $14.95. Your price $8.97. Soft-cover edition. |
Following the Fifth Kansas: The Rosters
Following the Fifth Kansas: The Letters
Alice Fry compiled these two books. The Roster consists of the men who served within the ranks. Listed name, place of birth if given, residence at time of enlistment, age, and misc. Remarks on the cards. Some men are listed in the reunion records of 1888 and 1911. Excellent reference work. 225 pages, soft-cover. Retail price $21.00. Your price $12.60.
The Letters volume, is wonderful. Captain Creitz wrote back to his free thinking and doing wife left behind in Kansas. He constantly admonishes her on the company she keeps and she thinks for herself. When their home are is being invaded, evidently Captain Creitz quits writing and perhaps went home. The second part of the book deals with correspondence of Lt. Joseph Trego and Private George Flanders. Descriptive details, for battle of Helena, Arkansas, are super. The book has some photo’s of the men who served and the final chapters in Captain Chris’s life as a civilian. Good detail Fullyindexed,225pages Retail price $24.95.Your price $14.97. REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE BOOK
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The Fifth Season; Shelby’s Great Raid of 1863 By Mark Scott. |
| Great descriptive little book. Details Missouri’s hero on his 1863 raid. Mark wrote this for his thesis and it was so good we decided to publish it. 126 pages, soft-cover Retails at $12.95. Your price $7.77. |
First published in 1886. As Aide-de-Camp to Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson, Snead was intimately apprized of all the political decisions made during the war. After leaving Gov. Jackson, Snead was assigned as Chief of Ordnance by Genl. Sterling Price and then as Adjutant General. This position he held until the summer of 1864 when he became a member of the Confederate Congress. After Price returned from Mexico, he gave his personal military papers to Snead, for the purpose of compiling a history of the Confederacy in Missouri, during those early years. This edition, reprinted by Two Trails Publishing, was specially commissioned by the Mo. Div. S.C.V.. Soft-cover, 315 pages, index with maps. Retail price $17.95. Your price $10.77.
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Gettysburg of the West: Battle of Westport By Fred Lee. |
| Noted Westport historian and author, Fred L. Lee, wrote this book on Westport’s battle and includes some of the more colorful characters who fought in it. To name a few: George Caleb Bingham, Mountain Charley ( a woman), Liver Eatin’ Johnson of Crow fame, Wild Bill Hickock, and many others. The book is liberally illustrated with maps, photo’s, sketches. An excellent work by Mr. Historian himself. 176 pgs. soft-cover Art work on the beautiful colorful cover by noted Ozark artist, Rocky Medley. Retail price $19.75. Your price $11.85. |
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Trial of Frank James For Murder: With Confessions of Dick Liddil and Clarence Hite And History of the James Gang. |
| Reprinted by Two Trails Publishing from an original written by George Miller, Jr., in 1898. Excellent documentation of trial and complete transcript. Valuable reference work. 348 pages, Soft-cover. Retail price $24.95. Your price $14.97. |
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Missouri Confederates: A Guide to Sources for Confederate Soldiers and Units 1861-1865 By James Mc Ghee |
| Jim is one of the most thorough researchers we have met. He co-authored Sterling Price’s Lieutenants, and now has shared "where to look for what in Missouri" with us. Missouri records, especially Confederate records are placed all over the state. Jim has gathered those sources for each branch of the service, then by regiments. Excellent work. Retail price $14.95. Your price $8.97 |
The Confederate Veteran Magazine, was for many years the voice of Missouri’s Confederate soldiers. It now has been reformatted with all of the Missouri materials extracted into one volume. Years cover 1893 -1932. A grand total of 1060 pages of text, over 7,000 names in the index. This is reprinted by arrangement with Missouri Order Stars and Bars and Missouri Sons of Confederate Veterans. Hard-cover, soft gray with gold lettering. A fine addition to any library. $70.00. (Wholesale to dealers at $55.00)
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The Last Long Mile; From Westport to Arkansas 1864 By Carolyn Bartels. |
| From the Fred Lee collection came three unpublished old diaries, detailing and humanizing the battles of Westport, Mine Creek and the sorrowful degrading retreat through Kansas and Arkansas. New material, never before published, sheds a more personal light on the whole affair. The diaries leave no doubt as to privations and sufferings by man and beast on this harrowing march. Action packed with interwoven accounts of each portion of the battle and the march South. Also is included General Cabell’s report in 1900 when he was living then in Dallas, Texas. The book lets you decide with the presentation of these new materials whether General Price’s raid of 1864 was actually what the military reports filed soundly proclaimed it to be. You will be surprised. 180 pgs, indexed, Soft-cover. Retail price $14.95. Your price $8.97. |
The Man Who Wouldn’t Surrender - Even in Death. General J.O. Shelby
Compiled by Carolyn Bartels.As "Taps" was sounded in Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 17, 1897, the soldiers who loved him most, paid their respects. A colorful character in the history of Missouri and well acclaimed as the most expert cavalry leader of the Trans-Mississippi, never giving up, and so it was with his struggle with death. Included is family information and the passing of JO’s beloved Betty. From newspaper accounts as collected and preserved by Fred L. Lee. Soft cover small booklet, 90 pgs, Retail price $9.95. Your price $5.87.
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Men of the Tenth: A Roster of the Tenth Missouri Infantry By Wayne H. Schnetzer. |
| For the first time an easy to read roster of the men who went all through the war and fought their last battle at Jenkins’ Ferry, Arkansas. They were surrendered at Shreveport, La., in May of 1865. Well researched and documented. Any data appearing on individual service cards has been included. 122 pgs, soft-cover, and well indexed. Retail price $13.95 Your price $8.37. |
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Men of the Eleventh Missouri Infantry By Wayne H. Schnetzer. |
| Includes a sort mini -history of their service. Detailed roster and all data included in for the famous regiment. They were surrendered mainly at Shreveport, La., in May of 1865. Soft-cover, 131 pgs, index. Retail price $13.95. Your price $8.37. |
M. Jeff Thompson's Letter and Order Book Transcribed by James E. McGhee. A first ever task. Primary source materials for researchers. Fully indexed. Retail price $13.95. Your price $8.37.
History of the 1st and 2nd Missouri Confederate Brigades. By Col. R. S. Bevier
Originally written by Bevier in 1879 and reprinted by Two Trails in 1997. The wonderfully written old book that Missourians enjoyed in the early years following the war. Filled with stories of humor and tragedy. This is probably one of the most honest, uncolored works detailing this famous brigade and its men. It is widely used as a reference by many serious authors on the war in Missouri. It is written without malice, but, with truthful accounts of happenings, running through the full spectrum of emotions. 480 pages. Indexed. Soft cover. retail price $27.95. Your price $16.77. Hard cover retail price $37.95. Your price $22.77.
Ninth Missouri Infantry Regiment, CSA and the 12th Missouri Infantry Regiment, CSA By Jerry Ponder
This book takes out the confusion caused by the Union army personnel who compiled the official records on the two units. A very good work by Mr. Ponder. 115 pages, Soft cover. Retail price $13.95. Your price $8.37.
History of the 15th Missouri Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A.
Written and researched by Jerry Ponder. The 15th, seldom mentioned in Trans-Mississippi Civil War records was brigade size in strength and acted as the first line of defense for the Confederate Army over a wide area along the Missouri-Arkansas border. The book deals with the military records of this illustrious regiment and the social and political aspects within the region. Many gave their all and suffered great economic losses by their loyalty.
Soft-cover, 169 pages, includes a very good accurate roster of these men. . Great work! Retail price $15.95. Your price $9.97.Missouri Confederate Surrender: Shreveport and New Orleans 1865
A listing, compiled by Carolyn Bartels, of over 3000 names of those found on a microfilm copy of the original surrender roll books. Gives name, rank, company, regiment and place of home residence in Missouri. Folks, we don’t claim to have them all, just about 3,300 of them. Soft-cover, listed alphabetically, Retail price $12.00. Your price $7.20.
Missouri Deaths in Union Prisons
and Their HospitalsWay back in about 1911 or shortly thereafter, the families and the government needed to account for the thousands of missing Confederates who entered Union prisons across the northern states. In the attempt a massive undertaking was embarked upon searching original prison records. The records held some 26,000 names, a far cry from actual deaths. We have extracted the men of Missouri from these records. The listing includes arrangement by name, rank, regiment, company, date of entry, death date and final disposition. Soft-cover, Retail price $9.00. Your price $5.40.
EXCLUDED are Alton and St. Louis; For those see Joanne Eakin, Prisoners of War; Gratiot Street etc
Missouri Civil War Engagements
Over 1162 recorded events transpired within Civil War era in Missouri. We have listed the greater portion. Reference to the action was extracted from Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Gives date and place of action and type. Soft-cover, stapled. Don’t leave on vacation without it. Find the local sites! Retail price $7.00. Your price $4.20.
Lists name, age, post-office and county of residence, age at receiving pension, pension number and in some cases, the death date of the applicant. Good little reference work. Transcribed by Carolyn Bartels. Retail price $8.00. Your price $4.20.
Missouri Officers and Gentlemen; Missouri CSA Surrender
Carolyn Bartels found more men, who as residents of Missouri, were paroled at various Union depots in the South, during the months of May and June of 1865. Like its companion book Missouri Confederate Surrender; Shreveport and New Orleans, it contains names, rank, regiment and Mo. residence. 32 pgs. Soft-cover. Retail price $9.00. Your price $5.40.
Monroe County, Missouri, Chronicles of the Civil War
By James FarthingThis book sets the scene and plays out many tragedies suffered by these citizens of Missouri. Included is the first military organizations which were organized in Monroe County and the trials that followed them. Written in about 1904 by James Farthing, it has been transcribed by Carolyn Bartels. Soft-cover. Retail price $10.95. Your price $6.57.
By John Newman EdwardsThis famous old book, that was read with relish by thousands, following the Civil War, was written by John Newman Edwards. Reprinted from an original copy by Two Trails Publishing. Joanne Eakin indexed the edition. Wonderful account of the men who fought as Guerrilla’s in Missouri and some who followed the most famous generals within the Trans-Mississippi. You can readily see, after reading this, how some 250 men could hold at bay an entire Union army that occupied Missouri. Soft cover edition retails at $27.95. Your price $16.77. The book, all 488 pages, is available in hard-cover and retails for $37.95. Your price $22.77.
Suitable Subjects for Shooting ; Jackson County, November and December 1861
By Wayne Schnetzer and Joanne Eakin.This book delves into Jackson county during the Civil War; the hot-bed just across the Kansas border, it suffered, as did the citizens, many raids and devastation from the same. Roster of the 1st [CSA] Cavalry is given that operated in this area, protecting the locals. 103 pages, soft-cover, indexed, illustrations. Retail price $10.95. Your price $6.57.
BACKStand Watie and the First Cherokee
By Carolyn Bartels.Stand Watie was the last hold out in the Confederate surrender. He and his men fought all four years, always with the promise of weapons. The Confederacy wanted their support, but sort of "didn’t get around" to giving them arms, clothing or feeding them. A valiant struggle of a proud man. Soft-cover edition taken from Official Records War of the Rebellion, and Oklahoma History. Retail price $9.00. Your price $5.40.
Trans-Mississippi Men at War: Missouri
Compiled by Carolyn. Bartels.Hundreds of files went into this book, all from primary sources. Thus providing the researcher of Missouri military history CSA a valuable working tool. The records included: letters, Adjutant Generals records, casualty lists, organizations of Missouri’s MSG field and staff, some records of events and movements, material from county records and miscellaneous gathering of files from Missouri State Archives. Missouri is Volume I of the series. Some valuable and unusual records not found readily, such as the payroll records for all of the men of the Eighth Division MSG are included within the text. Soft-cover, 300 pages, fully indexed. Retail price $32.95. Your price $19.77. . Hardcover at $42.95. Your price $25.77.
