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   General Thompson and His Operations   Price Compelled to Retreat   The Legislature at Neosho Passes an Act of Secession   Members of the Confederate Congress Chosen    Fremont's Bodyguard Defeated at Springfield   Hunter Succeeds Fremont and Retreats   Reorganization of the State Troops   First and Second Confederate Brigades........... 63

CHAPTER VIII. Price Falls Back to Arkansas     Affair at Sugar Camp   Price and McCulloch Disagree   Van Dorn Takes Personal Command   The Battle of Pea Ridge   McCulloch and Mcintosh Killed   Van Dorn Retreats   Van Dorn's Opinion of the Missourians   The Army of the West Ordered East of the Mississippi   General Price's Address to His Troops............................................... 75

CHAPTER IX. The Missouri Troops at Corinth   Reorganization Continued   The First Missouri Infantry   Affair at Farmington   Beauregard Evacuates Corinth   Price in Command in Northern Mississippi   Fighting at Iuka   Van Dorn and Price Attack Corinth   Price Successful   Van Dorn Fails    The Missourians Complimented   The Retreat   Bowen's Stubborn Fighting   Price Finds a Way Out............... 85.

CHAPTER X. The Trans-Mississippi Department Open to Federal Occupation     Hindman Takes Command   Shelby Goes into Missouri to Raise a Regiment   Battle of Lone Jack   Three Regiments Organized at Newtonia   A Brigade Formed with Shelby Commanding   The Fight at Newtonia    Hindman Superseded   Holmes Orders Troops Out of Missouri   The Desperate Fight at Cane Hill.................. gs

CHAPTER XI. Hindman Prepares for a Campaign   The Battle of Prairie Grove   Both Armies Retreat   Holmes Abandons the Upper Arkansas Valley   Hindman Relieved of Command in the West   Marmaduke Moves into Missouri    Repulse at Springfield   A Hard Fight at Hartville....... 107

CHAPTER XII. The Missouri Brigades Oppose Grant Below Vicksburg   Death of Col. William Wade   Battle of Port Gibson   Battle of Baker's Creek   The Missourians Save the Army   Affair at Big Black River   Siege of Vicksburg    Provisions Fail   General Green and Colonel Irwin Killed    Surrender of the City and of the Army   Death of General Bowen   The Missouri Brigade............................ 116

CHAPTER XIII. Operations in the Trans-Mississippi Department   General Kirby Smith Assumes Command   Marmaduke Makes an Expedition into Missouri   The Affair at Bloomfield     Battle of Helena   Steele Moves on Little Rock   Battle of Bayou Meto   Evacuation of Little Rock    Shelby Prepares for an Expedition into Missouri........ 130

CHAPTER XIV. Shelby's Raid through Missouri    The Fight near Marshall   Brilliant Exploits of Shelby's Command   Marmaduke Attacks Pine Bluff.................... 141

CHAPTER XV. The Missouri Brigade in the Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns   Service at New Hope Church   At Kenesaw Mountain   It Captures One of the Forts at Alla-toona   Disaster at Franklin   Rear Guard in the Retreat

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