War upon the land [electronic resource] : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / Lisa M. Brady.
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TextSeries: Environmental history and the American SouthPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.Description: xix, 187 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 973.7/301 23
- E468.9 .B694 2012eb
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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