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Title: Reminiscences of the Women of Missouri during the Sixties
Description: Descriptions of the first and second versions of Order Number 11 during the Civil War, including both removal from and return to homes for western Missouri residents sympathizing with the Confederacy in 1863-1864. Details many of the hardships imposed on women and children.
Date: 1920~/1929~
Object Type: Book

Title: Labouring for the Freedom of This Territory: Free-State Women in the 1850s
Description: Article about the social conditions of women in 1850s Kansas, including acts of heroism in antislavery activism, with photos and illustrations.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: ''Labouring For the Freedom of This Territory'': Free-State Kansas Women in the 1850s
Description: Article about the hardships of Kansas women in the border warfare era of the 1850s, with few rights and fighting on the side of anti-slavery.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Ladies of Lawrence are Arming!: The Gendered Nature of Sectional Violence in Early Kansas
Description: Chapter of the book about border warfare involving women in 1850s Kansas Territory, discussing the active part of women in antislavery violence and other activity, promoting the entrance of Kansas into the Union as a free state.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Civil War References
Description: This book contains several references to Missouri and the Civil War. Includes chapters entitled: "Home Guards and Home Traitors: Loyalty and Prostitution in Civil War St. Louis" and " 'A Rebel Though She Be': Gender and Missouri's War of the Households" as well as the term "guerrilla warfare in Missouri" in the index.
Date: 2005
Object Type: Book Section