Just a small quip not from post war history that lt. speaks of.
(General) Halleck reported to Lincoln "The operations of (Senator) Lane and Jennison had so enraged the people of Missouri that about 80.000 of them had joined the Confederate side."
These people did NOT join because they were "duped" by "fat cat" slave owners and this was just one border state although the Kansas/Missouri fighting and raiding (by Kansas abolitionists) started many many months before declared war began. The winners wrote the history books and left out the parts where peoples very right to breath air was jeopardized. I know this because my family lived through it.
