Worst of all, the story has been expunged from our collective memory, except for hints contained in the celebration of former guerrilla Jesse James in folk culture. Skip to main content 15 Off Limited-Time Offer. Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West, 1861-1865. We have new and used copies available, in 0 edition - starting at 18.00. It's harrowing reading, and, in a way, depressingly familiar: the savagery and ruthlessness of the guerrillas is perhaps understandable, but the ease with which the state's military elite (and its political backers) persuaded itself that its victims were subhuman calls to mind quite a few more recent imperialistic ventures. Buy Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy by Richard S Brownlee online at Alibris. It's evident that Missouri during Federal occupation was a profoundly corrupt totalitarian state, complete with thought crimes and mass deprivation of basic human rights, all of it hugely profitable to the fortunate few. Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who-under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Although most of the book is a narrative account of the guerrilla war itself, the two chapters on "Martial Law and "Control of the Populace" are particularly important. First published in 1958, Brownlee's very readable book is still a standard introductory study of the complete collapse of civil institutions in Missouri during the Civil War.
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