When the Missouri Ran Red: A Novel of the Civil War (Jim Woodward -F) Ed Bearss and the Confederate surrender at

and the Confederate surrender at Appomattox

Yet less than two years later

the hospitals closed up

The hundreds of thousands of men

When the Missouri Ran Red: A Novel of the Civil War (Jim Woodward -F) Ed Bearss and the Confederate surrender atAutumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half brother, seventeen year old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selbys Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives