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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. $150.00.
	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 outfits to fight in the eastern theater (Shenandoah 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) $40.00.
	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.
	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). 168 pages, 55 photographs, 3 maps, roster, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. (Published 2007; ISBN 978-1-929919-12-3) $14.95. Detailed Description.
	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. (Published 2008; ISBN 978-1-929919-14-7) $18.95. Detailed Description.

	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. Early praise for Missouri Brothers in Gray
	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.

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