War upon the Land Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War

Name: War upon the Land Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780820342498

ISBN-10: 0820342491

ISBN-13: 9780820342498

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lisa M. Brady, Paul S. Sutter

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In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even as they battled one another. Northern soldiers encountered unfamiliar landscapes in the South that suggested, to them, an uncivilized society’s failure to control nature. Under the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan, the Union army increasingly targeted southern environments as the war dragged on. Whether digging canals, shooting livestock, or dramatically…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


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



Making a Desert and Calling It Peace


Notes


Bibliography


Index