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1 online resource (259 pages) |
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New directions in Southern history |
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New directions in southern history.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert -- The hard-line war: the ideological basis of irregular warfare in the western border states / Christopher Phillips -- Controlled chaos: spatiotemporal patterns within Missouri's irregular Civil War / Andrew William Fialka -- Violence, conflict, and loyalty in the Carolina piedmont: a comparative perspective / David Brown and Patrick J. Doyle -- Indians make the best guerrillas: Native Americans and the war for the desert southwest, 1861-1862 / Megan Kate Nelson -- The business of guerrilla memory: selling massacres and the captivity narrative of Sergeant Thomas M. Goodman / Matthew C. Hulbert -- Tales of race, romance, and irregular warfare: guerrillas fictionalized, 1862-1866 / John C. Inscoe -- In search of Manse Jolly: mythology and the facts in the hunt for a post-Civil War guerrilla / Rod Andrew Jr. -- "Nothing but truth is history": William E. Connelley, William H. Gregg, and the pillaging of guerrilla history / Joseph M. Beilein Jr |
| Summary |
Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as ""the wars within the war, "" guerrilla combat touched states from Virginia to New Mexico. Guerrillas fought for the Union, the Confederacy, their ethnic groups, their tribes, and their families. They were deadly forces that plundered, tortured, and terrorized those in their path, and their impact is |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Guerrilla warfare -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Guerrillas -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Guerrilla warfare
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Guerrillas
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War -- Underground movements
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Underground movements.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140280
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beilein, Joseph M., Jr., editor, author.
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Hulbert, Matthew C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813165349 |
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0813165342 |
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9780813165332 |
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0813165334 |
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9780813165325 |
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0813165326 |
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