Border War by Marilyn Ferris Motz - 9781496860057

University Press of Mississippi

Border WarA Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri\nAuthor(s): Marilyn Ferris Motz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496860057, 978-1496860057\nSynopsis\nWhen fiddler and farmer Henry Smith and his wife Harriet moved from Michigan to southwest Missouri in 1858, they considered themselves part of a Yankee cultural community whose taste and aspirations were shaped by northern publications and represented by the new Republican Party. By 1861 Vernon County Court Judge Henry Smith no longer called himself a Yankee or Republican, but he hoped his isolated prairie community would remain in the Union. Montevallos location at the intersection of roads from Boonville and Lexington south to Carthage and from Springfield to Fort Scott, Kansas, placed the Smith familys log house in the path of troops fighting to establish Confederate or Union control of Missouri. The Smiths saw neighbor turn against n.