I attended Knox College from 1968 to 1972. They had a thing called the ray smith Civil War room. I found general William L. CABELL's unpublished official report in a file cabinet in that room. That went a long way towards piquing my interest in the Civil War west of the Mississippi, especially prices Missouri invasion.
I wanted to write about the battle of Westport, but in those days there wasn't a lot of material available. So I chose instead. It's to write about the battle of pilot knob. It happened that Thomas Ewing's papers were in the Library Of Congress. They contained several dozen accounts by union participants and I use those to write my thesis. The thesis was later published in the late 1970s. It was published by Southeast Missouri Press Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
The version you saw is not the version I wrote. I hired a co-author named Scott house to write about the retreat from pilot knob. Instead, he rewrote the whole book without my permission.
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