A savage conflict the decisive role of guerrillas in the American Civil War /

• Main Author: Sutherland, Daniel E.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Civil War America.
• Subjects: Guerrilla warfare > History > 19th century. > United States; Guerrilla warfare > Confederate States of America.; Guerrillas > History > 19th century. > United States; Guerrillas > Confederate States of America.; HISTORY.; United States > History > Underground movements. > Civil War, 1861-1865; Electronic books.
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The American Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies outfitted in blue and gray uniforms, details that characterize conventional warfare. ###A Savage Conflict# is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Dan...

Table of Contents:

• Beginnings (Spring-Summer 1861). A People's War
• A Border War
• A Delayed War
• Rules of the Game (Fall 1861-Summer 1862). Stringent Orders
• Sanctioning Barbarity
• Not the West Point Way
• Democracy Run Amok (Fall 1862-Summer 1863). Communities of Bitter Memories
• In Bad Repute
• Some Definite Policy
• Day of the Outlaw (Fall 1863-1864). So Tired of War
• A Terror to the Citizens
• One Vast Missouri
• Epilogue : 1865.