Caught Between Three Fires: Cass County, Mo., Chaos & Order No. 11 1860 - 1865

For 11 years, astride the Missouri-Kansas border, Cass County
endured the vortex of our nation's most violent confl ict. Citizens
struggled between three raging fi res, Secessionism, Unionism, and
an undying Border War. Cass County's uncivil war, intimate, cruel, and
total, suffered no man, woman or child to escape loss or injury - their
individual stories weave history's fabric. Violent circumstances forged
leaders who shaped Missouri's political and military history. Caught
Between Three Fires, for the fi rst time, reconstructs a lost history, erased
by total destruction, Order No. 11, and time's purposeful neglect.