Pg. 99: Mark Geiger's "Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War"

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 by Mark W. Geiger.

About the book, from the publisher:

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri’s guerrilla conflict, and for the state’s anomalous experience in Reconstruction. In the broader history of the war, the book reveals for the first time the nature of military mobilization in the antebellum United States.

View a video trailer for Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865, and learn more about the book at the Yale University Press website.

Mark W. Geiger is a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

The Page 99 Test: Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865.

--Marshal Zeringue