War upon the land military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War /
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
c2012.
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Schriftenreihe: | Environmental history and the American South.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.