Vintage 1989 Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War

A gripping and unsettling examination of the guerrilla war that tore Missouri apart during the Civil War, Michael Fellman's Inside War (1989) goes beyond the conventional battlefield narrative to explore the brutal, chaotic, and deeply personal violence that defined the conflict on the western border. Drawing on diaries, court records, and military correspondence, Fellman reveals how ordinary men and women became perpetrators and victims of savage irregular warfare. A landmark of Civil War scholarship and an essential read for collectors of military history, border state history, and American social history.