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Re: Price's Missouri Expedition

The same could be said of Early's Monocracy Campaign in 1864 when Lee was trying to hold Grant out of Richmond.

The whole point of Price's Missouri Raid was to shift the focus of the war out of Arkansas for a while and move it into Missouri. It was not to hold Missouri, but to create H--- for the Yankee's in Missouri because Northerners were feeling too comfortable with the war. The War wasn't effecting the people of the north and Lincoln was coming up for re-election.

As with Early in Maryland, so it was with Price in Missouri. An attempt to create a diversion, and maybe to draw off some of the Federals out of Arkansas and Virginia. This was the same point of Maradukes Missouri raid in 1862 and the subject of several correspondences between J. O. Shelby and Jefferson Davis regarding the lost of the Lower Arkansas River Valley in 1863.

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