War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / / Lisa M. Brady.
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| Superior document: | Environmental history and the American South |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environmental history and the American South.
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| Physical Description: | xix, 187 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.