Table of Contents

; PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. THE ADVANCE TO WESTPORT; 1. Prelude to Battle; 2. "This May Seem a Wild Plan"; 3. "In a Just and Holy Cause"; II. THE ACTION BEFORE WESTPORT; 1. "Kansas, Rally! To Arms, and the Tented Field"; 2. A Dark and Dangerous Man; 3. "This Is the Place to Make the Fight"; 4. "They Fought Us on the Blue Grass Ridges"; 5. "I Can Stop Price at This Crossing"; 6. "Death Was Everywhere-"; 7. "I Am Preparing to Renew the Attack"; 8. Sunday, October23, 1864; III. THE RETREAT FROM WESTPORT; 1. 'A Vigorous Pursuit Was Necessary"; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

About the Author

Howard H. Monnett grew up playing on the battlefield of Westport. A lifelong Kansas City resident, he was dean of faculty and interim chancellor of the Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City. John M. Monnett, who provides the introduction to this volume, is a professor of history at Metropolitan State College of Denver, author of The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869, and the son of the late Howard H. Monnett.