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Bushwhackers increases the growing body of books that examines the various irregular conflicts that occurred during the American Civil Warfare. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. talks about the ways that several different rings of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their conflict in concert with their house- supports and their female kin who provided logistical support in many forms. Whether observed fighters like Frank James, William Clarke Quantrill, and "Bloody Expenses" Anderson, or less well-known characters such as Clifton Holtzclaw and Jim Jackson, Beilein offers a close examination of how these warriors thought themselves as fighters, offering a brand-new interpretation that gets us nearer to seeing how the women and men who participated in the conflict in Missouri will need to have understood it.Beilein answers a few of the difficult questions: Why have men battle as guerrillas? Where have their tactics result from? What were their goals? Why were they so successful? Bushwhackers shows that the guerrilla conflict in Missouri was not simply an possibility to settle antebellum feuds, nor was it some collective plummet by society into a state of chaotic bloodshed. Somewhat, the guerrilla conflict was the only rational response by women and men in Missouri, and one which was more commensurate with their worldview than the conventional warfare of the day.As guerrilla conflicts rage across the world and assault remains closely linked with masculine identity here in America, this look into the past offers timely understanding into our modern world and several of its current battles.The booklet is published with the Kent State University Press.
