Hard Hand of War Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865

Name: Hard Hand of War Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865
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ISBN: 9780521599412

ISBN-10: 0521599415

ISBN-13: 9780521599412

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mark Grimsley

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The Hard Hand of War explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks upon Southern property and civilian morale--how it evolved, what it was like in practice. From an initial policy of deliberate restraint, extending even to the active protection of Southerners' property and constitutional rights, Union armies gradually adopted measures that were expressly intended to demoralize Southern civilians and to ruin the Confederate economy. Yet the ultimate "hard war" policy was far from the indiscriminate fury of legend. Union policy makers promoted a program of directed severity, and Professor Grimsley demonstrates how and why it worked. This volume fits into an emerging interpretation…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.17" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



The Roots of a Policy



Conciliation and its Challenges



Early Occupations



Conciliation Abandoned



War in Earnest



Emancipation: Touchstone of Hard War



From Pragmatism to Hard War



The Limits of Hard War



Gestures of Mercy, Pillars of Fire