Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Slavery in Missouri -- A Proslavery Speech on the Admission of Missouri -- A Girl Named Mourning -- The Freedom Law, 1824 -- "Yesterday was the … Sale of my darkeys" -- "The girl I shall not warrant sound" -- "Rachel is free" -- "All hands at work at the peaches" -- Statutory Restrictions on the Rights and Liberties of Free Black People -- Charles Peabody Describes Slavery in Lexington, Missouri -- Dred Scott Sues for His Freedom -- Bond for a Free Black Woman -- William Wells Brown Remembers His Life as a Slave -- "Emancipation … would convert this vast region … into a howling wilderness" -- Two Missouri Divides -- The Squatter Sovereign Proclaims: "Kansas declared in favor of Slavery" -- A Republican Newspaper Editor Comments Favorably on the High Price of Missouri Slaves -- A St. Louis Newspaper Laments the "fratricidal strife on the soil of Kansas" -- William B. Napton Deplores the Possibility of Emancipation in Missouri -- Democratic and Constitutional Union Newspaper Editorials on the 1860 Presidential Election -- Missouri! Bright Land of the West! -- Missouri Democrats Proclaim Their Loyalty -- Minerva Blow's Flag Is Still Waving for the Union -- "Peace … should be maintained in our State" -- "The attempt to overthrow an established government is the plainest treason" -- Three Missourians Confront War -- Missouri's Minute Men Join the Southern Cause -- Lieutenant Colonel John S. Bowen Reports on Jayhawkers to Governor Claiborne F. Jackson -- General Daniel M. Frost and Captain Nathaniel Lyon Argue over the Fate of Camp Jackson -- Alice Cayton Believes St. Louis Will Be Cleared of Germans -- Governor Jackson Condemns the "bloody and revolutionary schemes" of the U.S. Government.

"I Goes to Fight mit Sigel" -- German Ladies Present a Union Flag -- "You may be assured that she talks Southern" -- The Ladies Union Aid Society Visits Benton Barracks -- Stephan Werly Refuses to Serve under a Colonel Who "does not seem to know any religion" -- The Ladies Union Aid Society Raises Funds for the Cause -- Confederate Soldiers Exhort Pro-Southern Women to Stand Firm -- This War amongst Neighbors and Brothers -- Four Missouri's Battles -- Remembering Boonville: The First Battle on the Soil of Missouri -- Union Soldiers Are Spoiling for a Fight -- "I feel any thing but lonesome when I get among the St. Louis Boys" -- "They were ever seen in the thickest of the fight, cheering on their men": The Battle of Wilson's Creek -- The Ray Children Witness the Battle of Wilson's Creek -- General John C. Frémont Declares Martial Law and Frees Slaves -- "We are engaged in war with an army of desperate adventurers" -- Private Henry Voelkner Complains about the Army's Lack of Information -- Edward Bates Discusses Gunboats and Politics with His Son -- A Senate in Exile -- Rebel Soldiers Declare, "Our cause is as sure to triumph as God reigns in Heaven" -- David Monlux Tells His Father, "We have a first rate time in our tent" -- A Jesuit Chaplain Suffers alongside His Soldiers -- A Confederate Soldier at the Siege of Vicksburg -- Sergeant Albert Allen Wants to Emigrate to Mexico to Get away from Germans -- Five Civilians Cope with War -- "Fashionable Secesh Ladies" Write Their Friends in the Army -- A St. Louis "she-devil" Promises Revenge -- Elvira Scott Laments That Her Home Is "no longer a safe asylum" -- Lucy Thurman Asks Her Cousin to Come Home if He Can "get out of old Abe's clutches" -- "Let us see if we can't have a 'raid' ourselves" -- Willard Mendenhall Is Harassed by Federals -- Steamers and Ships on the Mississippi River.

Henry Crawford Describes the Execution of a Bushwhacker -- Private David Allan Cares Little for Suffering Farmers in Southeast Missouri -- Sarah Jane Hill Helps Nurse Wounded Union Soldiers -- Cordelia Harvey Cares for Wounded and Sick Soldiers at Cape Girardeau -- A Woman's Secret Code -- William Kesterson Writes Home from an Army Hospital -- Are Partisan Rangers Confederate Soldiers? -- The St. Louis Union Club "will no longer dally with treason nor compromise with traitors" -- How I Robbed a Young Couple -- Adair County Provides for Widows and Orphans -- Refugee Children -- Six Bushwhackers, Jayhawkers, and Prisoners -- Mary Ann Cordry Takes the Oath of Loyalty -- General Order No. 11 -- General Schofield Copes with the Aftermath of General Order No. 11 -- "There are strict orders against taking any more prisoners that is found … as bushwhackers" -- A Missouri Soldier Burns Homes in Tennessee -- "I had nothing much to [lose] and what I had is gone" -- "Bloody Bill" Anderson Threatens the Women of Western Missouri -- Cyrus Russell Is Taken Prisoner during the Battle of Pilot Knob -- "The military force looked miserably insufficient to successfully cope with the enemy" -- They Received Confederate Friends with Smiles and Tears -- "Strange to say-we did not feel afraid" -- The Suffering Condition of the People -- The Journal of Western Commerce Reports Rising Prices in Missouri -- Dr. Holmes Cares for His Fellow Prisoners -- How a Young Lady Got into Gratiot Street Prison -- Only Eight in the Guard House -- Seven First Steps toward Emancipation -- Henry T. Blow Asks President Abraham Lincoln to Pass an Emancipation Edict -- A Missouri Lady Dreads Winter among "insolent negroes" -- Edward Bates Warns Provisional Governor Hamilton Gamble of Political Intrigues -- "He talks of nothing but Emancipation".

Missourians React to the Emancipation Proclamation -- Deed of Emancipation -- A Union Soldier Deplores Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation -- Private William R. Donaldson Criticizes the Recruitment of Black Soldiers -- "If they want any of their family, they can arm themselves … and take them" -- Missouri State Representatives Argue about Emancipation -- Republican Isidor Bush Implores the People of Missouri to Take a Stand on Slavery -- Negro Hunting -- Recruiting Soldiers of African Descent -- An Ambush at Poison Springs -- Eight Reconciliation and Promises -- "The ruinous … conservative war policy" -- "Freedom as the watchword of our new life" -- Private Solomon B. Childress Swears Vengeance on Columbia -- William B. Napton Fears the Control of Radical Republicans -- The Daily Missouri Democrat Celebrates the End of Slavery in Missouri -- Cousin Jimmie Describes Emancipation on the Farm -- George Cruzen Musters Out of the Confederate Service and Emigrates to Mexico -- William Murphy Pleads for Release from Gratiot Street Prison -- To All Who Were Rebels, Traitors, Sympathizers and Their Friends -- W R. Dyer Fears That the Country Is Drifting into Civil War Again -- John Mercer Langston Demands Equality before the Law -- This Great Problem of Reconstruction -- Freedman's Bank Records -- Martyrdom in Missouri -- An Ex-Confederate Soldier Applies for a Pension -- Timeline -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.