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The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers
Kenneth E. Draper
其他書名
A History of Colorado in the Civil War
出版Xlibris Corporation, 2012-05-07
主題History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN14771023379781477102336
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OWRPAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember. The Victorian and antebellum homes with servant quarters still behind them, the wooded bluffs and caves where escaped slaves were hidden, and the mystique of the Missouri River area itself have maintained this feeling of the war for me. My mothers immediate family was from the Missouri River bottoms on the Missouri side and my fathers immediate family was from rural Atchison on the Kansas side. From my incomplete and somewhat misinformed family and formal history education, I assumed for most of my life that my mothers family was Confederate in its leanings and that my fathers family was Union. I was unaware that the town and countys namesake, Sen. David Rice Atchison, was from Missouri and had much Pro-Slavery activity. No effort has ever been made to change the towns name since the war. No Confederate tie to him was taught in any of my classes in school.