The Lost Cause: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy by William C. Davis

“Men west of the river were different—of that no one had a doubt. They were still a new people, many of them immigrants and more of them no more than first-generation natives of the region. Their lean bodies spoke of the generations of rugged Southern hill people who had spawned most of them. In some the bronze in their faces recalled the Indian women their fathers had taken, just as the scars on their bodies told of the Indian men they had battled. Missouri was well settled by now, even urbane in areas, with an international flavor thanks to thousands of recent European immigrants, but for many of the other hard westerners, of Arkansas and Texas especially, Fort Sumter brought nothing very new. For them, life itself had been an intermittent warfare. Now only the enemy was different; the unending struggle to survive remained the same.”

-William C. Davis, 1996