Mark W. Geiger
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300151510
- eISBN:
- 9780300151527
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300151510.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This book explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War, focusing on events that happened in Missouri prior to financial conspiracy. It also discusses the ...
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This book explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War, focusing on events that happened in Missouri prior to financial conspiracy. It also discusses the presidential election of 1860 in which Abraham Lincoln was elected as the president of United States; explores Missouri's branch banks, which played a critical role in financing the secession movement in Missouri; and also reveals that despite Union military superiority, stopping the flow of the money from Missouri's banks to the rebels proved difficult. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience in reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, it reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.Less
This book explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War, focusing on events that happened in Missouri prior to financial conspiracy. It also discusses the presidential election of 1860 in which Abraham Lincoln was elected as the president of United States; explores Missouri's branch banks, which played a critical role in financing the secession movement in Missouri; and also reveals that despite Union military superiority, stopping the flow of the money from Missouri's banks to the rebels proved difficult. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience in reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, it reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.
