| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. By Christopher Phillips. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. xviii, 342 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1272-7.)

Claiborne Fox Jackson is an obscure figure in Civil War history. Descended from slaveholding yeoman parents, Jackson migrated from Kentucky to Missouri where he settled in the Boon's Lick region, counties bordering the Missouri River in the central part of the state. Within a few years, he acquired both social prominence and financial security through his connections with Dr. John Sappington. He married three of Sappington's daughters and was a sales agent for "Sappington's Anti Fever & Ague Pills." He became politically active as a Jacksonian Democrat and supporter of Thomas Hart Benton, United States senator from Missouri. Elected to the Missouri legislature on numerous occasions between 1836 and 1842, Jackson's political future seemed bright. . . .

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