War upon the land [electronic resource] : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / Lisa M. Brady.
Material type: TextSeries: Environmental history and the American South | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)ISBN:- 9780820343839
- 0820329851
- 973.7/301 23
- E468.9 .B694 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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