Missouri/Kansas Border War Network

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Explore the family background using demographic data of the Civil War Missouri guerrillas in Jackson County who operated on the Missouri/Kansas border. Many came from socially prominent and well-to-do families whom the Federal Army had harassed and terrorized.

About the Author

Gilmore holds BA and MA degrees in English and is retired as an editor for the Staff and Command College in Leavenworth. In recent years he has published articles such as “Revenge in Kansas, 1863” in History Today, 1993; “Total War on the Missouri Border” in Journal of the West, 1996; “Showdown at Northfield” in Wild West, 1996; and “When the James Gang Ruled the Rails” Wild West, 2000. His books include Eyewitness Vietnam: From Rolling Thunder to the Fall of Saigon 2006; U.S. Army Atlas of the European Theater in World War II, 2005; and Civil War on the Missouri Kansas Border, 2005.