Guerrilla Operations in the Civil War: Assessing Compound Warfare During Price's Raid
Abstract
One of the most significant areas of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War occurred along the Missouri-Kansas border. Many of these guerrilla forces had been active during the Bleeding Kansas period and continued their activities into the Civil War supporting the Confederacy. The guerrillas attacked Federal forces and disrupted their lines of communications, raided settlements in Kansas, and attempted to support Confederate conventional forces operating in the area. In 1864, Major General Sterling Price led a raid into Missouri in a final attempt to bring the state into the Confederacy. This thesis explores the nature of guerrilla warfare in the Missouri-Kansas border area and explains how Price and the guerrillas failed to employ the elements of Compound Warfare to bring Missouri into the Confederacy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 17, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA428656
Entities
People
- Dale E. Davis
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College