Civil War Ghosts of Southwest Missouri

The Strife Of The Civil War Came Early To Southwest Missouri. And Its Specter Has Not Yet Departed.

For southwest Missouri, the Civil War was an unparalleled period of violence, sorrow and anger. As the torches burned the physical landscape, the depredations inflicted were also scorched upon the psyche of the people who lived through the fires. Survey Carthage's battlefield for stubborn holdouts or hold vigil at the Kendrick House for innocent bystanders who were swept up into the stratagems of bushwhackers and guerrillas. Meet the Bloody Spikes, Rotten Johnny Reb and scores of other figures from the region's past who continue to trouble its present.