Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Sacred Soil of Missouri: The State, the Army, and the Department -- One: The Beginning -- 1. Of Conquest and Liberation: From Arkansas into Missouri -- 2. September 27: From Pilot Knob through Potosi to Centralia -- 3. Sounding the Alarm: The Road to Rolla -- Two: The Primary Goal -- 4. The Mysteries of St. Louis: Myths and Realities in the City's Defense -- 5. At the Gates of the Metropolis: Pacific and Union -- Three: The Secondary Goal -- 6. The Turning Point: From the Bourbeuse to the Gasconade -- 7. The Westward March: From Boeuf Creek to the Osage River -- 8. The Capital: From the Osage River to Jefferson City -- Epilogue: Shaping the Memory of a Civil War Campaign -- Appendix A: Timetable of the Missouri Campaign, August 29-October 8, 1864 -- Appendix B: Engaged Units -- Notes -- Index.