David I just can not believe that most books you have read concerning the Missouri/Kansas Border War and the subsequent "War for Southern Independence" were biased towards to South...I would suggest that in fact they had Northern bias by about a factor for 10 to 1...
Look at the history of the war that is being taught in our public schools and Universities (for the past 150 yrs)..and I dare say you will be hard pressed to find any that take the Southern view..
Thank God for folks like Donald L. Gilmore who are not afraid to speak the truth and have the facts to back it up.
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