War upon the Land : Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brady, Lisa M., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Strategy > History > 19th century.
Philosophy of nature > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Confederate States of America > History, Military.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Environmental aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : nineteenth-century ideas of nature and their role in Civil War strategy
  • Hostile territory : Union operations along the Lower Mississippi, 1862-1863
  • Broken country : Union campaigns at and around Vicksburg, 1863
  • Ravaged ground : Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864
  • Devoured land : Sherman's Georgia and Carolina campaigns, 1864-1865
  • Conclusion : making a desert and calling it peace.

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