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Title
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Missouri State Guard
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Description
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A section of this book contains information on the Missouri State Guard active during the Civil War. It includes information on the volunteer militia, volunteers and guerrillas, military suppliers, insignia, and arms and equipage. Cover of the book states, "this book examines the variety of uniforms worn in the first half of the war by militia and volunteers from the divided border states of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland..." Includes three pages of color illustrations of uniforms worn by the Missouri Volunteer Militia, the Missouri State Guard, and Missouri guerrillas.
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Date
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2008
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Hawthorne Hall
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Description
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Description and history of the Uriah Spray Epperson House, originally known as Hawthorne Hall, in Kansas City. Construction began in 1919. After the deaths of U.S. Epperson (1927) and Elizabeth Epperson (1939), the property was converted into a club for military transport pilots. Later, in 1943, Hawthorne Hall was deeded to the University of Kansas City for a men's dormitory. "Since 1988, it has housed the architecture and environmental design studies program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City."
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Date
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2008
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Book Section
