Pilot Knob: The Thermopylae of the West (Classic Reprint)

In the following pages, descriptive of the battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri, September 27, 1864, and of the operations immediately preceding and following it, a rather novel arrangement of material has been made. It is, however, an arrangement which in the judgment of the authors utilizes to the best advantage possible within the limits of a single volume the cream of the great mass of original data relating to this remarkable conflict, data that has been collected with much care and effort by Doctor Peterson in the course of the past fifteen years. This material, consisting of more than one hundred personal narratives of survivors of the battle on the Union side, several accounts from men who served in the Confederate army, and a great quantity of correspondence, notes and memoranda bearing upon various details of the campaign, would, if used in their entirety, fill several large volumes.
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