A/N: I TRIED SOMETHING NEW, SO I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY!
WARNING- SMUT, 18+ MATERIAL. DO NOT READ UNDER THE AGE OF 18
This mission was different than most, only four of you had been chosen to dive into the world of Hydra and attempt to extract valuable information to take Hydra down. Steve and Buck were on the other side of the compound while Sam and yourself were on the other side attempting to breach the communication center to take over their eyes and ears.
Bullets whizzed past your head as you turned down a darkened hallway, the gasp that escaped your lips seemed deadly as you reloaded you weapon. You could hear the assailants getting closer to your corner as you continued to reload as fast as your human body could move. You may be assassin but you could only move so quickly.
As you went to make your move, aiming for their heads. Sam went to pull you back, in his eyes back to safety, in yours to be a pain in the ass.
“Let me go, now.” You gritted through your teeth as his grip loosened, you went to turn the corner again but only came face to face with Bucky and Steve. They had taken down every assailant before turning to you, taking in your annoyed expression.
The glare you were sending their way was fatal, they did this every single time. Every time they thought you wouldn’t be able to handle the heat on your own. So of course, this is nothing different, but this time you weren’t biting your tongue about it.
“I had it; you should have let me finish this damn mission.” You grunted, pushing past them before making your way to the Quinjet.
You sat in your seat, running your battered hands through your long hair. You could feel blood running down your cheeks, most likely from a cut on your forehead, as your hair kept sticking to it.
“Dammit” You said, throwing your gear across the Quinjet, the anger still radiating off of you as you heard the guys loading their stuff back onto the jet before heading back to Stark Tower.
“You good?” Sam asked as he took a seat next to you before Bucky and Steve loaded up.
You were holding back tears as you looked at him, “Honestly- no. I am so over feeling un-helpful when I know I’m good at my job. I know I can do this. But he thinks I can’t- The fucking Winter Solider, my own damn boyfriend thinks I can’t do my own job. And now I am too the point I want to leave.” You said, a single tear running down your cheek as you made eye contact with Sam.
He just gave you this look of sadness, “Don’t do that, you can’t leave.”
“Can’t leave what?” Bucky said trying to catch your eyes and you looked to the floorboards. He was trying to read your face, but you weren’t going to give anything away- not to him.
“None of your business, Barnes” You hissed at him as he sulked into his seat next to Steve as the Quinjet was being fired up.
You just closed your eyes trying not to focus on the events of today, you just wanted to be back at the tower and in your room away from everyone else.
Before you knew it the Quinjet was touching down again, the rough landing drew you from your slumber. You looked around checking your surroundings before gathering your things.
You quickly stepped out of the jet, making your way to your room. You were halfway off the helipad before someone grabbed your arm, spinning you towards them.
Of course, it was no other than Sargent James Buchanan Barnes, the man who you love when he doesn’t turn into a complete ass.
“What is the problem? I saved you ass back there” He said, glaring down at me.
“You- you are my fucking problem” You said, tearing your arm away from him and made your way back to your room in the tower.
You could not make it to your room faster, the door sliding behind you brought the blissful silence that you so deeply needed. A loud sigh escaped past your lips as you laid down your gear, carefully stripping off your uniform. Gasping as it slipped past a large bruise forming on your upper shoulder.
You made your way to your large bathroom, turning the shower on the steam quickly filling the large space. Looking in the mirror, you took in your appearance. An expansive cut was your forehead, dried blood stuck to your forehead and cheeks, even the evidence of a black eye forming.
A sigh escaped your lips as you stepped under the steaming water, the hot feeling good on your bruised and battered body. The water slowly turning a reddish-brown color due to the blood streaming off your body.
Closing your eyes, you just thought about the mission and how you wish it had gone differently. You knew you could handle the mission, but of course Buck thought you can’t do anything without breaking a nail or accidentally shooting yourself in the foot.
You just shook your head trying to focus on anything else but the mission and how you were being treated. The bubbles from your shampoo mixed with the steamy water, as you just tried to relax.
Could you really step away from the Avengers? Could you really just leave this new world? Could you step away from Bucky forever?
You left out a deep breath you didn’t know you were holding in as you turned the water off, your stomach growled as you dried yourself off. Trying to think about what tomorrow could bring, you threw on your pajamas, also meaning shorts and a large hoodie with fuzzy socks.
You tossed your wet hair over your shoulder as you made your way to the kitchen, just praying that everyone was still in their rooms or even better asleep. You could hear the peanut butter calling your name as you rounded the corner, only to come face to face with the one person you were trying to avoid.
“Hey Baby” He said, looking up from his files that were spread around the kitchen island, multiple pictures of former Hydra members scattered around with their own individual files.
You barely looked at him as you opened the kitchen cabinet, pulling out the crunchy peanut butter and a spoon. Leaning against the counter you just kept sparing him looks as his brow was scrunched together as he read more of his files.
“You want to stop looking at me or are you going to talk to me?” He grumbled at you, looking up from his files. The bruising on his face was noticeable, and so was the split lip he was sporting. Clearly you weren’t the only one who had some reminders of today’s mission.
You just smirked at him, you were annoyed with him and you weren’t going to engage in whatever he thought he was going to get away with saying to you.
Placing your spoon in the sink, you started to stroll back out of the kitchen just barely passing Bucky. You felt his metal hand wrap around your wrist, making you stop in place.
“I don’t want to talk to you” You said bluntly, trying to pull your already bruised wrist out of his cold hand.
“Well too bad- we need to talk about today. Cause you clearly have some kind of problem with me and how I do my job on missions” He said, turning towards you before standing to his feet causing you to step back as his height overtook your small frame.
“I don’t want to talk about this with you. I have absolutely nothing to say about today. I don’t want to talk to you, okay? Get that through your head please. I am so tired of people trying to protect me and keep me from doing my job. So please- leave me the hell alone Buck.” You said, standing your ground. It was a clear a fight was coming, and you didn’t have the energy to even try to defend yourself or your actions.
“I was trying to protect you! And everyone else on that mission, that is something we need to talk about. Not you ignore me because you’re mad at me cause I stepped in your way. You know I couldn’t live with myself if something was to happen to you.” He said, trying to step towards you more but you kept stepping back away from him.
“Are you kidding me? You think you are so high and mighty, and you aren’t Bucky. You aren’t as special as you think you are! I was perfectly fine until you stepped in my way! I know how to do my job, but I cannot do it when you are all over me.” You finally screamed at him, clearly frustrated by the man you had come to care and love.
“Maybe next time don’t try and get yourself killed! Then maybe I wouldn’t be so obligated to come save your stupid ass” He screamed back, watching the tears stream down your face.
You let out a deep breath, tears continuing to dampen your flustered cheeks, you turned towards the door attempting to walk away from this toxic situation.
You wanted nothing more than to escape this tower, escape from him and his ego. You were just so done.
Before you could pass through the doorway- his metal hand wrapped around your bruised wrist, spinning you close into his chest.
“Let me go Bucky” The anger evident in your voice and you attempted to pull your wrist away from him.
His eyes darkened as he looked at you, analyzing every feature of your face before speaking.
“That’s Sargent to you.” A smirk appearing on his face as he closed the distant between you, his lips on yours as the metallic taste of blood danced on your tongue from his split lip.
A slight moan escaped from your lips as the kiss continued to intensify, you gently pulled at his matted hair causing a guttural sound to escape his lips. His lips pulled away slowly looking for the sweet spot under your jaw that makes you go crazy.
“Oh Buck…” You moaned loudly, your voice bouncing off the kitchen walls. It would like your moan was in utter surround sound.
He pulled away, darkened eyes looking deep into your eyes before speaking in a low tone, “That’s not my name angel.”
You leaned in close, your hot breath hitting his ear, “Oh I’m sorry…. Sargent Barnes”
A shutter rippled through his body as he threw you over his shoulder, making his way over to Tony’s new and very expensive couch. Tossing you down, the armrest digging into your bruised back, only causing a moan to escape from you.
“Tony is going to kill us…” You moaned as he rutted his hips against yours, slowly grinding against your clothed heat. But that only added to the pleasure as you were already dripping wet.
“I don’t care” He silently moaned against your ear, as he found his way to your sweet spot under your jaw once again. Leaving a liter of hickey’s as he made his way down your body, slowly stripping you of your hoodie. Your nipples becoming hard as the cold air rushed onto your exposed skin.
A low moan escaped from you as he made his way down your neck before working his way to your breasts. He shot you a small glance as he took one of your nipples into his mouth, the contact sending your eyes to roll back into your head. The pleasure taking over your body, you were ready to give everything to this man.
You grinded your hips against his, your juices continuing to leak from you as you were a moaning mess under him. He made his way back up to your lips, kissing them so gently as he stripped off his shirt, and began to remove your shorts which barely covered anything.
You let out a shaky breath as he grazed your clit with his metal fingers, which only caused a ripple of pleasure to travel through you. He couldn’t help but smirk at the bucking of your hips.
“You’re leaking baby” He said, rubbing his thumb across your clit almost too slow for your liking. He knew exactly what he was doing as he continued to press his thumb into your clit, as he slowly enters two fingers into your leaking cunt. You couldn’t help yourself as your eyes rolled back into your head, the pleasure building inside of you.
Your legs began to tremble as your orgasm was quickly approaching, you could hear the wet sounds of your cunt as he continued to press his fingers deep inside of you, hitting your most sensitive spot.
“Please- I’m gonna…Sargent…” You began to pant out as your legs continue to tremble even more.
“Go.” Was all he had to say before you came undone under him, you became a mess of moans as you felt your cunt pulse around his fingers as he continued to pump in and out of you.
“I need you…” You said as you grinded your leaking cunt against his hand even more, he couldn’t help but groan as he fished his thick length out of his sweats. His tip was swollen, and red with precum started to leak.
He stroked himself a few times before guiding himself to your opening, stretching your cunt to accommodate his size. He gave you no time to adjust before he began thrusting into you at a fast speed.
The frantic pace was too much for your pleasure riddled body as you could feel your cunt started to pulse again, your orgasm was only seconds away. You arched your back as the orgasm began to overwhelm your body, sending your eyes straight back into your head.
He threw his head back as he felt his high approaching, he just took in the glorious appearance under him as you continued to fall apart under him.
“I’m close” He moaned as he continued to hit your sensitive spot with such force, only causing the pleasure to increase even more.
“Fill me up….” Was all you worked out in-between your panting. He smiled down at you before snapping his hips one more time, spilling hit warm seed deep inside of you. Only causing you to pulse even more around his throbbing dick.
He collapsed on top of you, just taking in this moment and taking in you.
“I love you… only you” You said as you pushed his matted, sweaty hair out of his face. A smile appeared on his face, as he pressed his lips to yours, hard.
“I love you so much” He said, brushing your wet hair out of your face, taking in every feature as he continued to study you.
You opened your mouth to say something when a voice came over the loudspeaker, “Mr. Stark would like to inform you that you owe him a new couch And also to say that was more than disturbing”
You both couldn’t help but laugh as the loudspeaker cut out again. In a world where the Winter Solider used to be nothing but a killer. Here he is now, in all his glory as the one man who would do anything to keep your safe.
tony “fucked up with ultron and got away with it” oh my god really. really
tony is subscribing to the system of accountability devised in response to ultron. tony is taking whatever consequence is thrown at him. literally says it, “we need to be put in check, whatever form that takes, i’m game.” good god he’s not coming up with any of this shit, he’s just literally not in a position to argue against it EXACTLY BECAUSE ULTRON
i don’t see anyone saying wanda “got away” with anything for not walking into a prison cell after ultron so why in the fuck do people expect that from tony. y'all fucking know that if someone had approached tony and told him he needs to be held accountable, and he’d said “fuck no that’s unfair and i’m gonna run out of this place,” you’d be ripping him to shreds. wtf. stop with the blame game it is literally so stupid
“ don’t see anyone saying wanda “got away” with anything for not walking into a prison cell after ultron“
Uh. Hi?
I’ve been complaining about the lack of consequences for Wanda since Ultron came out. So have tons of other people. Trust me, no one is unclear on the fact that a woman who sided first with Hydra and then with a psychotic, homicidal AI in her quest for revenge on Tony Stark, and who along the way sicced an unstoppable killing machine onto a city of a quarter-million people, belongs in jail. (Though, having said that, let’s not pretend there isn’t a bit of false equivalence going on here, when you’re comparing a lone orphan from an impoverished, war-torn country to a billionaire who is capable of telling congress to kiss his ass without that even being the highlight of his day.)
But the thing is, the fact that Wanda belongs in jail, alongside Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, and probably a whole bunch of other Agents of SHIELD characters at this point (because I stopped watching on the second or third time they decided that the rule of law and human rights didn’t matter, so I don’t know how many criminal things they’ve done since then) doesn’t change the fact that so does Tony. And saying that what he’s doing in Civil War is a response to his fuck-up in Ultron, well, you know, that might actually be true, but that doesn’t make it right. I mean, we are all clear on the fact that this isn’t how a civilized world should run, right? If you screw up badly enough that you nearly destroy the planet, you don’t get to assume the authority of fixing the loophole that allowed you to do that. That job should be left to people who haven’t proven themselves to be as unfit for the task as you have.
One of my problems with the MCU (and with superhero stories in general) is that they seem to designate some characters as good guys, and having done so it doesn’t matter how often those people screw up or how much damage they cause. They’re still considered good guys, and it’s still left to them to pick up the pieces. Nick Fury is a pretty classic example, but the idea that Tony Stark should be allowed to rewrite the laws of the world in order to prevent something like Ultron from happening again feels like taking that approach to its ludicrous extreme. Hey, you know what would have prevented Ultron from happening, Tony? If you hadn’t created him. If you hadn’t demonstrated the profound arrogance and lack of judgment that should render you unfit for any future public role. Realistically, the fact that they haven’t can only mean one thing - that Tony is so rich, and so connected, that the consequences of his actions can never touch him.
And look, I’m not saying Steve is much better. The fact that he’s willing to work with Fury and Tony, and that he hired Wanda as an Avenger, speak very poorly to his judgment and sense of justice. By this point, I’m struggling to think of a single character in Civil War (barring the new ones, of course) that I would entrust with designing the system of laws that would govern the behavior and rights of superheroes, because most of them either belong in jail, or in front of a judge to explain why they shouldn’t go to jail. I have to believe that there are people in the world of the MCU that haven’t made those kinds of mistakes, and who can be trusted to steer it more wisely than this bunch of hooligans. And if there aren’t, then perhaps it’s time to admit that this world isn’t heroic, but a horrifying dystopia.
It’s all the fallout of decisions outside the text (I mean, obviously –just commenting on how narrative logic and moral logic have come to feel so mismatched). They wanted Ultron as a big-name baddie, but they didn’t want to include Hank Pym. So Tony, as the remaining AI-building scientist, had to be Ultron’s creator, never mind that this action was not at all congruous with the state of his character at the end of Iron Man 3. But they also recognised that audiences didn’t want an Avengersfilm to be crushingly dark and filled with guilt and angst (and perhaps also that a film about a big evil robot couldn’tbe those things to the extent that a comic could). So Tony suffers only moderate emotional fallout, and no apparent external consequences. And that’s a big part of why the film, despite being comprised of individually entertaining moments, feels so emotionally unengaging – the characters don’t even have control of their moods, let alone their actions.
Honestly, at this point I think the only way forward, for both audience and filmmakers is to handwave it, all “ehh, something a bit like that happened but let us not dwell on the specifics.” In fairness this is what comics do all the time
I think this is true as far as it goes - the process of creating Ultron was clearly a horrible mess, and the movie itself was created more to act as a bridge to Civil WarandInfinity War than as a work in its own right. But that still doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day, nobody at Marvel was able to see what they had created, and what they were saying with it. They honestly didn’t see anything wrong with having Tony make a mistake so huge that it almost ended all life on Earth, and still end the movie a figure of authority and respect. And that, I think, is not just about bad planning or prioritizing the big picture over character continuity. It’s about a messed-up mentality that, as I said above, designates some characters as good guys no matter what they do.
So while I agree that it might be best to pretend Ultron never happened (inasmuch as that’s possible, because I’m not sure the MCU is doing that in any meaningful way), I think the seeds of this problem are everywhere. You can see them in the fact that Nick Fury is still accorded respect by people like Steve and Natasha. Or that Maria Hill was able to seamlessly transition to the private sector. Or in the very premise of Agents of SHIELD, which holds that the same people who failed to notice, in some cases for decades, that half of their colleagues were working for Hydra, should now be entrusted with the task of bringing Hydra down. More and more, the MCU feels like a world where there are no consequences for some people, and where being bad at your job doesn’t mean you won’t still be allowed - encouraged, even - to keep doing it.
Is there a term that means “the lack of exercising variable focus and strategic suspension of disbelief due to a fixated set of concerns, resulting in an inability to enjoy or understand art/entertainment that relies on tension between ideas or themes that extend outside of a narrow window of concerns?” TV tropes doesn’t say anything…
Superhero stories truck in the ethics of power but peer through a lens of personal agency, community, etc. By convention, you have to hand wave away some aspect of “why isn’t such-and-such in jail” because if not you’d have to resort to short cuts at best/movies that are 90% pedantic explanation at worst in order to keep the narrative engine going and make your point. There is something interesting here about morality as taught by the “necessary” conventions of comic book stories (the secret identity thing, too, is… fraught, but the Marvel Studios movies don’t go there much) but to get what this stuff is staying, you have to pull back a bit and treat the details as extensions of the story that is being told. And at that level, keeping your eyes on Tony in AoU vs. Civil War poses a different problem – they are making a reduced version of the same movie again.
The from-40,000-feet story of Age of Ultron (you can read my full argument here) is that Tony is concerned with the safety of a world he feels responsible for (consistent with where he is at the end of IM3, IMO) and, as an entirely male effort, tries to harness forces he does not understand by technological means to create “progeny” that will protect everyone by controlling the situation with his values hard wired… Ultron is the techno-nanny state, rational determinism, whatever. Tony must learn that this is the wrong way, one of control and predetermination poisoned by our own traumas, in order to allow the birth of the better future. The Avengers must be exposed to American heartland generative values to enable the creation of better “child” (the Vision), conceived in a female derived techno womb, spewed to life by male energy, and containing a spark of divine (the role of Jarvis’ mental patterns is too much to add to this sentence). This “future,” perhaps more enlightened than we, can do the correct thing which is make decisions for itself, that me must trust and which hopefully can destroy the confines of the authoritarian/traditional we created. The elder generation’s role is to teach and step aside. Whedon’s argument isn’t just against fascism, but also helicopter parenting.
That Tony, in Civil War, needs to learn that an authoritarian/controlling approach is wrong (as it must be… Captain America is on the other side) is a small, uncomplicated aspect of his lesson learned in the prior film. That Captain America knows that this isn’t right is a rehash too. At least we have Spider-Man to stand in for the misguided but searching soul of America/the west (that’s new!) and there is no obvious parental model (the child rearing metaphor appears subtracted). AoU is a bloated, lopsided mess of a movie, but thematically uninteresting it is not. Civil Wars promises to be more straightforward (if just as bloated).
It seems a bit questionable to, on the one hand, say (with perfect accuracy) that superehero stories are told through the lens of personal agency, and on the other hand, that fixating on the implications of their events for individuals, and how those individuals develop, is beside the point and undercuts one’s ability to enjoy them. Or, to put it another way: it is trivially obvious that the MCU wants me to enjoy its movies by becoming invested in its characters as individuals, not as placeholders for forces or themes. The very selling point of Civil War is the conflict between Tony and Steve, who in himself represents American exceptionalism, overcoming any potential objections we might have to it by embodying it in a sympathetic, attractive package. So I don’t think it’s beyond the scope of the genre to point out that Age of Ultron has Tony behave in highly unsympathetic ways, and doesn’t do the necessary work to return him to a point where the viewer can not only continue to sympathize with him, but see him as someone who is entitled to call the shots for all of humanity.
Nor do I see that reading Ultron as a conflict between different methods of control and oversight negates my criticism of the film, or of how it handles Tony. What does it mean, for example, to say that Tony “needs to learn” that his approach with Ultron is incorrect? Does he need to learn this lesson on the backs of the people of Johannesburg and Sokovia? Does the fact of his having learned that lesson negate their deaths, and thus make it OK that he suffers no consequences for them? You might say that I’m once again missing the point, because the destruction caused by Ultron is merely a metaphorical representation of the damage caused by the nanny-statism it represents. But once again the MCU itself seems to think otherwise, because the premise of Civil War is that there is blowback for all that destruction - just not for Tony. It’s all very well and good to say that Ultron is trying to make a point about Tony’s unhealthy fixation on control and total oversight, but the way in which it chooses to make that point - by having Tony nearly destroy the world - is deeply flawed.
(I might also add that when it comes to Civil War, I’m actually fairly sympathetic to the argument for registration - while allowing, obviously, for the way that the film is going to tilt the scales by having the bodies pushing for registration be just this side of fascistic. So I’m rooting against your prediction that Civil War is merely going to recapitulate Ultron, if for no other reason than that if we’re really intended to see Ultron and superhero registration as functionally the same, then the MCU’s politics are even more reductive than I thought they were.)
tony “fucked up with ultron and got away with it” oh my god really. really
tony is subscribing to the system of accountability devised in response to ultron. tony is taking whatever consequence is thrown at him. literally says it, “we need to be put in check, whatever form that takes, i’m game.” good god he’s not coming up with any of this shit, he’s just literally not in a position to argue against it EXACTLY BECAUSE ULTRON
i don’t see anyone saying wanda “got away” with anything for not walking into a prison cell after ultron so why in the fuck do people expect that from tony. y'all fucking know that if someone had approached tony and told him he needs to be held accountable, and he’d said “fuck no that’s unfair and i’m gonna run out of this place,” you’d be ripping him to shreds. wtf. stop with the blame game it is literally so stupid
“ don’t see anyone saying wanda “got away” with anything for not walking into a prison cell after ultron“
Uh. Hi?
I’ve been complaining about the lack of consequences for Wanda since Ultron came out. So have tons of other people. Trust me, no one is unclear on the fact that a woman who sided first with Hydra and then with a psychotic, homicidal AI in her quest for revenge on Tony Stark, and who along the way sicced an unstoppable killing machine onto a city of a quarter-million people, belongs in jail. (Though, having said that, let’s not pretend there isn’t a bit of false equivalence going on here, when you’re comparing a lone orphan from an impoverished, war-torn country to a billionaire who is capable of telling congress to kiss his ass without that even being the highlight of his day.)
But the thing is, the fact that Wanda belongs in jail, alongside Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, and probably a whole bunch of other Agents of SHIELD characters at this point (because I stopped watching on the second or third time they decided that the rule of law and human rights didn’t matter, so I don’t know how many criminal things they’ve done since then) doesn’t change the fact that so does Tony. And saying that what he’s doing in Civil War is a response to his fuck-up in Ultron, well, you know, that might actually be true, but that doesn’t make it right. I mean, we are all clear on the fact that this isn’t how a civilized world should run, right? If you screw up badly enough that you nearly destroy the planet, you don’t get to assume the authority of fixing the loophole that allowed you to do that. That job should be left to people who haven’t proven themselves to be as unfit for the task as you have.
One of my problems with the MCU (and with superhero stories in general) is that they seem to designate some characters as good guys, and having done so it doesn’t matter how often those people screw up or how much damage they cause. They’re still considered good guys, and it’s still left to them to pick up the pieces. Nick Fury is a pretty classic example, but the idea that Tony Stark should be allowed to rewrite the laws of the world in order to prevent something like Ultron from happening again feels like taking that approach to its ludicrous extreme. Hey, you know what would have prevented Ultron from happening, Tony? If you hadn’t created him. If you hadn’t demonstrated the profound arrogance and lack of judgment that should render you unfit for any future public role. Realistically, the fact that they haven’t can only mean one thing - that Tony is so rich, and so connected, that the consequences of his actions can never touch him.
And look, I’m not saying Steve is much better. The fact that he’s willing to work with Fury and Tony, and that he hired Wanda as an Avenger, speak very poorly to his judgment and sense of justice. By this point, I’m struggling to think of a single character in Civil War (barring the new ones, of course) that I would entrust with designing the system of laws that would govern the behavior and rights of superheroes, because most of them either belong in jail, or in front of a judge to explain why they shouldn’t go to jail. I have to believe that there are people in the world of the MCU that haven’t made those kinds of mistakes, and who can be trusted to steer it more wisely than this bunch of hooligans. And if there aren’t, then perhaps it’s time to admit that this world isn’t heroic, but a horrifying dystopia.
I’d like to believe that everyone else just said “OK, let’s let these idiots tire themselves out while we work out the legal framework by which superheroes can be answerable to the law and to the proper authorities while still maintaining their civil rights.”
A tin type of cavalry Trooper Thomas Moody of the 11th Missouri State Militia Cavalry.
The Missouri State Militia have an interesting story as Missouri had divided loyalties during the war but despite this the State Militia fought both Confederate guerrillas and the Confederate Army and helped to keep Missouri in the hands of the Union.
