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Re: Price's Missouri Expedition

Bruce --

If I had been thinking like Stonewall Jackson, I wouldn't have made a post on Saturday that might create a distraction on Sunday!

Thanks for your thoughts on my question. A related point --

Whatever recruits might have been garnered during Price's expedition could not have been armed, organized and disciplined to be of any immediate use. It might have been more effective to have set more reasonable goals for the expedition: collecting recruits and supplies, winning a few small actions to boost morale, and obliging Federal commanders to take steps to prevent future excursions into Missouri. Forrest's Christmas raid into west Tennessee comes to mind, but of course, we cannot compare Forrest to Price.

If the expedition had been scaled back so as to risk fewer military resources and achieve limited goals, what else might have been accomplished? How might the Federal high command have reacted to a scaled-back invasion of Missouri?

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