Caught Between Three Fires

For 11 years, astride the Missouri-Kansas border, Cass County
endured the vortex of our nations most violent confl ict. Citizens
struggled between three raging fi res, Secessionism, Unionism, and
an undying Border War. Cass Countys uncivil war, intimate, cruel, and
total, suffered no man, woman or child to escape loss or injury their
individual stories weave historys fabric. Violent circumstances forged
leaders who shaped Missouris political and military history. Caught
Between Three Fires, for the fi rst time, reconstructs a lost history, erased
by total destruction, Order No. 11, and times purposeful neglect.