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War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War  Cover Image Book Book

War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / Lisa M. Brady.

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  • ISBN: 9780820329857 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0820329851 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780820342498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0820342491 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xix, 187 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Environmental aspects.
Philosophy of nature > United States > History > 19th century.
Strategy > History > 19th century.
Confederate States of America > History, Military.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library E 468.9 .B733 2012 30775305442882 General Collection Available -


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