Small Wars: a wide reading list

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I highly recommend a book not yet mentioned: Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, by Michael Fellman.

Published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, it is much more than a simple history of guerrilla fighting in Missouri.

I would second that one - as well as The Devil Knows How to Ride by Edward Leslie on the same subject.

If you are a movie watcher, there is a fantastic movie with a similar title but based on an historical fiction book rather than Leslie's book:
"Ride With the Devil"

Seeing guerrilla warfare thru the eyes of other Americans with whom we can relate can be an education in itself.

For another great online resource, COIN - Rhodesian classic.