In the context of the Civil War, Missouri is important, not because of famous battles that shaped the War’s outcome (there were none), but because of its position as a border state. There were four—Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware—and later five, as West Virginia separated from Virginia in 1863. All of them were slave states, possessing economic and political connections with both the Union and Confederacy. Missouri, it can be argue…
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