![]() The initial fighting in Missouri zeroed in on controlling the vital Missouri River Valley and then focused on controlling the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers. The scale of the combat in Missouri and Kansas was smaller than the fighting east of the Mississippi River due to an underdeveloped railroad and road network and a small population, both of which logistically limited the size of the forces in the Trans-Mississippi. This essay examines the military operations centered in Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War. By contrast, Kansans overwhelmingly fought for the Union. ![]() Missouri was a strategically vital state for President Abraham Lincoln and the federal government’s war effort, and a case can be made that the Civil War started on the Missouri-Kansas border in the 1850s, during “Bleeding Kansas.” Missouri was split in its sentiments, and many Missourians fought on both sides of the war. ![]() ![]() Only two states, Virginia and Tennessee, had more actions fought on their soil during the Civil War than Missouri. View A Long and Bloody Conflict (Part I) in a larger mapĪlthough the conflict in Virginia has commanded the lion’s share of attention and scholarship, Missouri and Kansas witnessed a tremendous amount of fighting during the American Civil War. ![]()
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