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preferred to ride than walk. But these are small issues in what is otherwise a methodologically sound and interpretatively necessary addition to our understanding of who fought in the Civil War and why. Kenneth W. Noe kenneth w. noe, alumni professor and Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University, is most recently the author of Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 18611865. By Mark W. Geiger. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. 320. Cloth, $55.00.) This volume by Mark Geiger provides a bold new interpretation of the guerrilla conflict that plagued Missouri during the Civil War. In a pithy work, Geiger argues that in 1861 Confederate bankers and pro-Confederate elites created a massive financial scheme that used the nascent banking system of Missouri to fund the mobilization of the Missouri State Guard. Bankers loaned $3 million in unsecured funds to pro-Confederate families, who were desperately searching for private money to fund their war effort. Wealthy slaveholding elites, who owned large plantations and constituted the state's antebellum aristocracy, were assured by the new pro-Confederate Missouri government that Confederate
The Journal of the Civil War Era – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 23, 2012
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