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THE LYON CAMPAIGN IN MISSOURI: BEING A HISTORY
OF THE FIRST IOWA INFANTRY, by Eugene F. Ware. A memoir of Iowa’s
first Civil War regiment, which fought at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. 424
pages, cloth bound, illustrations, maps, new introduction and index. (1991, originally published 1907; ISBN 0-9628936-0-9) $24.95.
WITH FIRE AND SWORD, by S. H. M. Byers.
Memoir of an officer in the 5th Iowa Infantry, author of the famous
war song “Sherman’s March to the Sea.” 220 pages, cloth bound, illustrations,
new introduction and index. (1992, originally published 1911; ISBN 0-9628936-2-5) $20.00.
THE STORY OF A CAVALRY REGIMENT: THE CAREER OF
THE FOURTH IOWA VETERAN VOLUNTEERS FROM KANSAS TO GEORGIA,
by William Forse Scott. Official history
of the 4th Iowa Cavalry. One of the best regimental histories ever written.
630 pages, cloth bound, maps, folding maps and battle plans, list of Engagements
and Casualties, introduction and index. (1992, originally published 1893; ISBN 0-9628936-3-3) $40.00.
THE STORY OF A CAVALRY REGIMENT. Limited
Edition, handbound in Nigerian goatskin and fine linen bookcloth by Jeff
Sandlin of Valparaiso, Indiana. This edition is limited to 10 numbered copies. As of 11/15/09 there are 2 copies left, #3 and #10.
$150.00.
A HISTORY OF THE 95TH REGIMENT ILLINOIS INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS, by Wales W. Wood. Published for the Boone County Historical Society, Belvidere, IL, in 1993. Reprint of the scarce, pre-Chicago Fire edition of 1865, with a new introduction
and index, plus 40 photos not in the original edition. Blue cloth, illustrated, index, 278pp. Stock very limited. (Sorry, no bookseller discount on this item.) $35.00
REMINISCENCES OF THE TWENTY-SECOND IOWA VOLUNTEER
INFANTRY, by S. C. Jones.
Memoir of an officer in the 22nd Iowa Infantry, famous for its charge
at Vicksburg, and one of only three Iowa regiments to fight in the eastern
theater (Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864). Originally published 1907 in
Iowa City, Iowa, in an edition that has since become very scarce; 217 pages,
cloth bound with dust jacket, illustrations, maps, new introduction by Jeffry
Burden, and index. (1993, originally published 1907; ISBN 0-9628936-4-1) $25.00.
WITH PORTER IN NORTH MISSOURI: A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, by Joseph A. Mudd. The history of a Confederate
recruiting raid behind enemy lines in Northeast Missouri in the summer of
1862. Paperback Edition of our original, indexed reprint of 1992. 504 pages,
illustrated, fully indexed, paperback. (1999, originally published 1909; ISBN 1-929919-00-X) $19.95.
Detailed Description.
AMERICAN PATRIOTISM OR MEMOIRS OF “COMMON MEN,” by Leonard Brown. Memorial to the men of Polk County, Iowa, who died in the CW. Contains diaries, letters, and interviews related to the 1st and 2nd Batteries, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 39th, 44th, 47th Iowa Infantires, and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 9th Iowa Cavalries. New intro and index, cloth, 624pp. Rpt. of 1869 ed. Stock limited. (2002, originally published 1869; ISBN 1-929919-03-4). (Sorry, no bookseller discount on this item.) $40.00.
LEFT FOR DIXIE: THE CIVIL WAR DAIRY OF JOHN RATH, by Kenneth Lyftogt. Revised edition, with more illustrations and new index. Rath served in the 31st Iowa Infantry. Illustrated, maps, bibliography, paperback, 112pp. (2004, ISBN 1-929919-05-0). (Sorry, no bookseller discount on this item.) $8.00.
IOWA’S FORGOTTEN GENERAL: MATTHEW MARK TRUMBULL, by Kenneth Lyftogt. First biography of this English immigrant and northeast Iowa pioneer who raised a company of soldiers for the Third Iowa Infantry, rose to the command of the regiment after the Battle of Shiloh, then in 1863 was chosen to command the Ninth Iowa Cavalry. Illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index, paperback, 128pp. (Published 2005; ISBN 1-929919-06-9). (Sorry, no bookseller discount on this item.) $10.00.
MURDER!, by Roxana Currie. The story of an unsolved murder in Polk City, Iowa, in 1882. Illustrated, paperback, 80pp. (Published 2005; ISBN: 1-929919-07-7). $14.00.
POLK CITY'S EARLY HISTORY: BEFORE 1900, by Roxana Currie. A compilation of articles on the history of Polk City, Iowa, by local historian Roxana Currie, including 26 historical and new photographs, plus a bibliography. Paperback, 150pp. (Published 2010; ISBN 978-1-929919-25-3). $17.50.
CAMP AND PRISON JOURNAL: EMBRACING SCENES IN CAMP, ON THE MARCH, AND IN PRISONS, by Griffin Frost. A memoir of service in the Missouri State Guard and prison life in Gratiot Street Prison (St. Louis) and Alton Prison (Alton, Illinois), first reprinted by PCPB in 1994, available again in a new paperback edition. New introduction and index, 354pp. (2006, originally published 1867; ISBN 1-929919-09-3) $20.00. Detailed Description.
VETERANS AND EVENTS IN THE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, by Bob Schmidt. Fresh research on another aspect of the Battle of Pilot Knob, concerning the execution of Major James Wilson and his men, the retaliation executions of the Confederates in St. Louis, and the planned retaliation execution of Major Enoch O. Wolf. Regimental history/roster of the 78th Enrolled Missouri Militia, which was comprised mostly of Ste. Genevieve and Perry County men. In depth information on John Koester, Charles Kannawurf, Charles Doerge, Anselm Stolzer and Leopold Naeger, who were immigrant Germans serving in the Civil War. Illustrated, maps, facsimiles, 8 ¼ x 11 paperback, 249pp. (2006, ISBN 1-929919-08-5) $25.00.
CIVIL WAR VETERANS AND UNION TROOP ORGANIZATIONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, by Bob Schmidt. In this new work, regional historian Bob Schmidt continues his research into the Civil War participants, both soldiers and civilians, and military units, of southeast Missouri. The 460-page book contains biographies of nearly 100 individuals, drawn from various obscure sources, plus short histories of southeast Missouri Home Guard and Enrolled Missouri Militia units. The text is supplemented by dozens of facsimile documents, drawings, maps, and other illustrations. 8 ¼ x 11 paperback, illustrated, index, 460pp. (2010, ISBN: 978-1-929919-24-6) $29.95.
SKIM MILK YANKEES FIGHTING: THE BATTLE OF ATHENS, MISSOURI, AUGUST 5, 1861, by Jonathan Cooper-Wiele. The first detailed study of this early, northeast Missouri battle between the Missouri Home Guard (for the Union) and the Missouri State Guard (for the Confederacy). 55 photographs, 3 maps, roster, notes, bibliography, index, paperback, 166pp. (2007, ISBN 978-1-929919-12-3) $14.95. Detailed Description.
EBER: PIONEER IN IOWA, by Ronald Stone. The biography of Iowa pioneer Eber Stone, as told through his letters and other documents. Illustrated, index, paperback, 236pp. (2008, ISBN: 978-1-929919-13-0) $19.00.
ALONG THE IRON CURTAIN, by Joseph A. Michaud. Memoir of a cold war trooper in the US Army along the border between West and East Germany. Includes a history of border operations of the 14th Cavalry in Germany from 1945 to 1972. Illustrated, map, bibliography, paperback, 146pp. (2008, ISBN: 978-1-929919-15-4). $17.00.
VANISHING FOOTPRINTS: THE TWENTY-SECOND IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY IN THE CIVIL WAR, by Samuel D. Pryce, edited by Jeffry C. Burden. The “official” history of the 22nd Iowa, written 100 years ago, published now for the first time. Illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index, paperback, 256pp. (2008, ISBN 978-1-929919-14-7) $18.95. Detailed Description.
SOLDIER LIFE—MANY MUST FALL: TWO CIVIL WAR NARRATIVES. TRUE HISTORIES OF THE 14TH IOWA INFANTRY IN CAMP AND COMBAT, TOLD BY THE WOLF CREEK RANGERS OF TAMA COUNTY. A new reprint of the diary of B. F. Thomas, 14th Iowa Infantry, plus the letters of Peter Wilson, of the same regiment. Illustrated, maps, notes, index, hardcover in dj, 288pp. (2008, ISBN 978-1-929919-17-8). (Sorry, no bookseller discount on this item.) $30.00.
MICAJAH PEYTON: THE CIVIL WAR YEARS, by Ken Ossian. A new history of the 14th Iowa compiled from B. F. Thomas’s Soldier Life, F. F. Kiner’s One Year’s Soldiering, the Official Records, and other sources. Illustrated, maps, hardcover in dj, 136pp. (2009, ISBN 978-1-929919-18-5). (Sorry, no bookseller discount on this item.) $30.00.
With the publication of Missouri Brothers in Gray in 1998, the Camp Pope Bookshop launched a new series of books edited and annotated by Michael E. Banasik, author of Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862. Individual books in the series Unwritten Chapters of the Civil War West of the River will bring mostly unknown, first-hand accounts of the war west of the Mississippi, alternating the Southern and Northern point of view.
Volume I: MISSOURI BROTHERS IN GRAY: THE REMINISCENCES
AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM J. BULL AND JOHN P. BULL.
William Bull’s service
began as a Missouri State Guardsman, captured at Camp Jackson in the spring
of 1861. He went on, with his brother John, to join Gorham’s (later
Tilden’s, then Lesueur’s) Third Field Battery of Missouri Artillery.
In 1862, John Bull became an officer in MacDonald’s Missouri Cavalry
and later Newton’s 5th Arkansas Cavalry, CSA. William’s reminiscence
of the war, written in 1906 and unpublished until now, along with the letters
both brothers wrote home to St. Louis provide an engaging portrayal of camp
life and battle in this oft neglected theater of the Civil War. 192 pages,
6 x 9, paperback, 6 maps, 15 illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography,
index. (Published 1998; ISBN 0-9628936-8-4) $12.95.
Volume II: RELUCTANT CANNONEER: THE DIARY OF ROBERT T. MCMAHAN OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH INDEPENDENT OHIO LIGHT ARTILLERY. McMahan joined Company E, Second Ohio Cavalry on August 10, 1861. He arrived at St. Louis on January 18, 1862, and, following a short stay proceeded westward to Kansas, where he participated in the Indian Expedition of 1862, the Lone Jack pursuit in August, and numerous other scouts. On October 19, 1862, McMahan was involuntarily transferred to Stockton’s Kansas Artillery. The battery became the Twenty-fifth Independent Ohio Light Artillery on February 17, 1863, which made McMahan’s transfer permanent. About a year later, upon returning from furlough, McMahan learned that he had again been involuntarily transferred to Battery E, Second Missouri Artillery. As an artilleryman, he would see service at Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, the Van Buren Raid, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Camden Expedition. Corporal McMahan was an excellent observer and chronicler of camp life and battlefield. He also took unusual interest in his physical surroundings, from identifying fossils and geological formations to surveying Union forts and camps. 360 pages, 6 X 9 paperback, maps, illustrations, notes, roster, appendices, index. (Published 2000; ISBN 1-929919-01-8) $19.95.
Volume III: SERVING WITH HONOR: THE DIARY OF CAPTAIN EATHAN ALLEN PINNELL OF
THE EIGHTH MISSOURI INFANTRY (CONFEDERATE). Edited by Michael
Banasik. The third volume in our series is the diary of a Confederate officer, Captain Eathan Allen
Pinnell, Company D, Eighth Missouri Infantry. When the war began, Pinnell
enlisted in Company F, Third Missouri Cavalry, Missouri State Guard (probably
the Seventh Division). Rising to the rank of sergeant, Pinnell left the Guard
after his six month term of service had expired. He joined the regular
Confederate Army in August 1862, helping to organize what would become Company
D, Eighth Missouri Infantry. Pinnell's diary, in which he made scrupulously
regular entries, covers the period of time he served in the Confederate Army
from August 1862 to June 1865. Though he participated in only three battles
(Prairie Grove, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins’ Ferry), Pinnell’s diary
is probably one of the most thorough recollections of Confederate Service
west of the Mississippi River. Captain Pinnell presents vivid accounts of
battlefield actions, camp life, and opinions of the war, particularly on
how the war should have been conducted. 448 pages, 6 x 9, paperback, maps,
illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. (Published 1999; ISBN 0-9628936-9-2) $19.95.
Volume IV: MISSOURI IN 1861: THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF FRANC B. WILKIE, NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT. Edited by Michael
Banasik. Volume IV in our series consists of 54 letters written in 1861 by newspaper correspondent Franc B. Wilkie. Part I, “The Iowa First: Letters From the War,” was originally published, under that same title, in 1861. The pamphlet, now exceptionally rare, brought together the reports Wilkie sent back to the Dubuque Herald as he accompanied the First Iowa Infantry from its training camp in Keokuk, Iowa, through to the Battles of Dug Springs and Wilson’s Creek, south of Springfield, Missouri (August 2 and 10, 1861). Part II of the book presents for the first time in book form Wilkie’s continued correspondence on affairs in Missouri, as it was originally published in the New York Times. While Part I bubbles with the excitement of camp life among the home town boys on their first military expedition, Part II takes a more sedentary and cynical look at military affairs in Missouri under the troubled command of Major General John C. Frémont, with occasional forays by Wilkie into the field (Lexington, Shelbina, Springfield, Milford).
Series editor Michael E. Banasik again provides extensive annotations, a detailed roster of the First Iowa Infantry, casualty figures for the major military engagements that Wilkie covered, biographies of major participants, and other important background material. 424 pages, 6 x 9, paperback, maps,
illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. (Published 2001; ISBN 1-929919-02-6) $19.95.
Volume V: CAVALIERS OF THE BRUSH: QUANTRILL AND HIS MEN. Edited by Michael
Banasik. Volume V of our series covers a very familiar topic, but in a way you probably have not seen before: war dated accounts of the activities of William C. Quantrill’s guerrillas from a Southern perspective. During the Civil War Northern newspapers were filled with shocking reports of the special brand of warfare the Border had known long before cannon were ever trained on Fort Sumter. William Quantrill’s infamous Lawrence Raid in 1863 and Bloody Bill Anderson’s massacre at Centralia, Missouri, a year later gained nationwide attention, and, at least as the Northern press saw things, all of it bad. Editor Michael Banasik, while doing research for another project, had the opportunity to review thousands of Southern newspapers, and he found that very little original writing had ever been published during the war on the Missouri guerrilla. A notable exception was a series of articles published in three Houston, Texas, newspapers during 1864 and 1865. Twelve letters written by someone known only as “Wau-Cas-Sie” were published in the Tri-Weekly Telegraph and its successor the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, and the Houston Daily Telegraph. While the reporting is not as dispassionate as we might have wished, we find confirmation of accounts of Quantrill’s activities as told postwar by such writers as John Edwards and the guerrilla veterans themselves, which have often been dismissed as fiction. Editor Banasik rounds out the story of Quantrill’s guerrillas in Part 2 of the book by republishing the Columbia, Missouri, newspaper report of Frank James’s visit to Centralia in 1897 and a 1918 article by Allen Parmer, probably the youngest of Quantrill’s guerrillas, on Quantrill’s ride to Kentucky in 1865. Cavaliers of the Brush is thoroughly annotated and indexed, with seven appendices containing resource material from official reports, period newspapers, and secondary studies of William Quantrill’s guerrillas included. 256 pages, 6 x 9 paperback, illustrations, maps, notes, roster, bibliography, index. (Published 2003; ISBN 1-929919-04-2) $17.95.
Volume VI: DUTY, HONOR AND COUNTRY: THE CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCES OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM P. BLACK, THIRTY-SEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY. Edited by Michael
Banasik. Volume VI of our series presents 119 letters written by William P. Black, Captain of Co K, 37th Illinois Infantry. The letters cover a multitude of subjects from the Battles of Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, Arkansas, to operations in Louisiana and Texas. William’s letters are straightforward, well-written, and informative. Editor Michael Banasik has added his usual exhaustive historical annotation, and he has compiled the most detailed roster of the 37th Illinois Infantry ever published. The book is further enhanced by other useful appendices, including, for the first time since its publication in the St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, January 1, 1863, the infamous Prairie Grove letter by officer “F” of the 37th, in which the bravery and leadership of William’s older brother Colonel John Black at Prairie Grove is impugned. The scandalous letter led to the Court Martial of its author, the unpopular Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Frisbie. 512 pages, 6 x 9 paperback, illustrations, maps, notes, roster, appendices, bibliography, index. (Published 2006; ISBN 1-929919-10-7) $24.95.
Volume VII: CONFEDERATE "TALES OF THE WAR" IN THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. Edited by Michael Banasik. In 1885, the St. Louis Missouri Republican began a Saturday series of articles on the Civil War by the participants, from the lowliest private to the most exalted general. The series ran for two years, comprising in all 94 articles, which dealt with all theaters of the war, including the high seas, from both the Northern and Southern perspectives. Being the home of most readers of the Republican, Missouri figures prominently in the series. Due to the number of pieces on Missouri and the Trans-Mississippi, editor Michael Banasik has grouped them by year. Part One of Confederate "Tales of the War" contains only those articles
on the first year of the war, from the Confederate perspective, including the rise to power of Frank Blair and Nathaniel Lyon in St. Louis, the Missouri Battles of Dug Springs, Wilson's
Creek, Springfield (Zagonyi's Charge), Belmont, Salem, Mt. Zion Church, and the controversy over Confederate support for the secession of Missouri. Subsequent volumes in our series will include articles covering the rest of the war, also those from the Northern point of view. 232 pages, 6 x 9 paperback, illustrations, maps, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. (Published 2010; ISBN: 978-1-929919-22-2) $17.95. Detailed Description.