**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

In the countryside, the wives and mothers of absent soldiers had to cope with marauders from both sides. Over one thousand Civil War engagements were fought in Missouri, and the conflict could not be quarantined from civilian life. Children saw their fathers and brothers beaten, hanged or shot. In the cities, a cheer for Jeff Davis could land a young boy in jail, and a letter to a sweetheart in the Confederate army could get a girl banished from the state.