Cover -- Contents -- Appendixes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE: Financial Conspiracy -- TWO: New Banks -- THREE: New Bankers -- FOUR: Insider Lending -- FIVE: The Unionists Regain Control -- SIX: Guerrillas -- SEVEN: The Transformation of Regional Identity -- EIGHT: W…
Financial conspiracy -- New banks -- New bankers -- Insider lending -- The Unionists regain control -- Guerrillas -- The transformation of regional identity -- War and the administrative state.
"This highly original work explores the impact of a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the beginning of the American Civil War. In early 1861, pro-Confederate militia units formed throughout Missouri to defend the state's expected secession. To arm the volunteers, a grou…
Mark Geiger explores a financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War, the impact this had on the intensity of the guerilla campaigns in Missouri & the enduring ramifications for that state through the period of Reconstruction.