 Complete the following phrase:  The hopes of many Southern-leaning, mostly farming-dependent, families, including Jesse James and family in Liberty, Missouri, rose and fell by news of Prices battles. If Price succeeded, the entire state of Missouri might fall into the hands of the Confederacy. For all anyone knew, it would force Lincoln to accept the Souths independence, in light of earlier rebel victories. After all, no one expected the war to last much longer. The Siege and Battle of Lexington, also called the Battle of the Hemp Bales, was a huge success for the rebels, and meant rebel ascendancy, albeit temporarily, in western and southwest Missouri. Combined with the loss of such a pivotal leader of the federals western campaign in Nathaniel Lyon, and the Unions stunning defeat in the wars first major land battle at 