The Battle Of Carthage: Border War In Southwest Missouri [Hardcover]

David C. Hinze (Author), Karen Farnham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 1999

In the early months of the Civil War, a local force of German immigrants under Franz Sigel fought Confederate militiamen for control of the strategic border state of Missouri.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 414 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (July 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882810066
• ISBN-13: 978-1882810062
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,958,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a battle history should be!, February 23, 2003

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James W. Durney (Tampa Bay area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Battle Of Carthage: Border War In Southwest Missouri (Hardcover)

I had never heard of the Battle Of Carthage when I picked this book up the first time. It looked interesting, had a nice cover design, was a Civil War History and I'm a buff. What I found was one of the best small battle histories I've ever read! Well written, multiple maps, where you need them, pictures, notes, OOB this book has it all,including a Battle Field tour.

Unless you have no intrest in the Civil War you will like this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, November 23, 2006

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Davide Gatti "Antonio Gatti" (Lodi, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Battle Of Carthage: Border War In Southwest Missouri (Hardcover)

This book is simply wonderful, magnificently written and a lot detailed.
The first part supplies an accurate report of Missouri's situation at the outbreak of the war. After a short but intense description of the engagement near Boonville, supplied with an excellent map, the narration continues following the two armies, Franz Sigel's German volunteers and the Missouri State Guards, in their road to Carthage.
Moreover every phase of the battle is studied with cure and love for the detail: there are a lot of beautiful and accurate maps and pictures of the officers and soldiers who fought at Carthage.
I hope that the authors will soon write an other work of this kind that the war in Missouri receives therefore more attention than which than usual comes attributed to it.
Excellent.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE BEST CIVIL WAR SMALL BATTLE BOOKS EVER!, June 20, 2010

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CTS 2631 "Timboabwe" (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Battle Of Carthage: Border War In Southwest Missouri (Hardcover)

This great book explains in detail the beginning of the Civil War in Missouri in 1861. From the antebellum roots of conflict in the state, to the situation, people and events in St. Louis that ignite into hostilities, then through the skirmish and Union victory at Boonville, Missouri (June 17, 1861), through the Missouri State Gaurds (MSG) retreat to the Southwest corner of the state and the Union forces unsuccessful pursuit that leads to an outnumbered Union force attempting to locate and assault the MSG at Carthage on July 5, 1861. Readers are introduced to all the main players for both sides involved in the events that make up this interesting period of the Civil War in the Transmississippi and the military units that made up the forces that fought at Carthage.

The book is easy to read, informative, and the authors do a great job of keeping the reader aware of what is going on but not losing sight of the story by including too many details. Unlike most Civil War battle studies this one has plenty of maps that are easy to understand and use to follow the text (one theater map that allows you to follow events upto the battle, one overview map of the entire battle, and eight maps of the different phases of combat that follow events from the beginning to the end of the action). There are fifteen photographs and illustrations of the participants, and even more interesting to myself, twelve modern photos of the battlefield terrain as it looks now to help the reader picture the action. Also included are an Order of Battle of forces engaged, a self guided tour of the battlefield, and an interiew with one of the authors.

I found this book to be so good that when I saw a hardcover edition (had the softcover edition already) in excellent shape at the local used book store, I bought it, and read it again! I cant recommend this book enough to anyone who has an interest in the American Civil War, or Missouri history!