?MISSOURI: Volunteer militia; Missouri State Guard; Volunteers and guerrillas; Military suppliers; Insignia; Arms and equipage · KENTUCKY: Antebellum militia; Kentucky State Guard; Volunteer forces 1861–63; Military suppliers; Arms and equipage · MARYLAND: Antebellum militia; Maryland volunteers; Maryland Zouaves; Military suppliers; Arms and equipage · PLATE COMMENTARIES · INDEX
This book traces the history of the units from Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland and their varied uniforms which are beautifully recreated in color plates.
Ron Field is Head of History at the Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and was associate editor of the Confederate Historical Society of Great Britain, from 1983 to 1992. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on US military history, and was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, in 2005. Richard Hook was born in 1938 and trained at Reigate College of Art. After national service with 1st Bn, Queen's Royal Regiment, he became art editor of the much-praised magazine Finding Out during the 1960s. He has worked as a freelance illustrator ever since, earning an international reputation particularly for his deep knowledge of Native American material culture; and has illustrated more than 50 Osprey titles.
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