Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon

by Christopher Phillips

Savior of the Union in Missouri, or Madman on a Mission? The debate has raged for over a century. Phillips leans towards the latter

General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West
by Albert E. Castel

Best general history of Sterling Price.

John Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny by Andrew Rolle





General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel
by Daniel O'Flaherty









Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative by William Earl Parrish


The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain : Father John B. Bannon
by Philip Thomas Tucker





Carl Schurz : A Biography by Hans Louis Trefousse
Leader of the "Damned Dutch"

With Porter in North Missouri: A Chapter in the History of the War Between the States
by Joseph A. Mudd





Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West by Christopher Phillips

Confederate-governor-in-exile of Missouri.

Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography by Craig L. Symonds