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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164948303321

Titolo

The Guerrilla Hunters : Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War / / edited by Brian D. McKnight and Barton A. Myers ; foreword by Kenneth W. Noe ; afterword by Daniel E. Sutherland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baton Rouge, Louisiana : , : Louisiana State University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-8071-6499-2

0-8071-6498-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Collana

Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War

Disciplina

973.7/3

Soggetti

Guerrillas - United States - History - 19th century

Guerrilla warfare - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Kenneth W. Noe -- Introduction: guerrilla warfare's place in the history of the American Civil War / Brian D. McKnight and Barton A. Myers -- Partisan ranger petitions and the confederacy's authorized guerrilla service / Barton A. Myers -- Finding the guerrillas: the power of shadow and perception in the Appalachian theater / Brian D. McKnight -- Nathan Bedford Forrest and guerrilla war / Brian Steel Wills -- Home rebels, amnesty, and antiguerrilla operations in Kentucky in 1864 / Stephen Rockenbach -- "Who is 'Tinker Dave' Beaty?": hunting guerrilla social networks / Aaron Astor -- The irregular war in Loudoun County, Virginia / Scott Thompson -- American warlord: reconsidering "guerrilla" leader John Gatewood / Adam H. Domby -- The Union war on women / Lisa Tendrich Frank -- Guerrilla warfare and the environment in the trans-Mississippi theater / Matthew M. Stith -- Irregular naval warfare along the lower Mississippi / Laura June Davis -- Whiskey, wild men, and Missouri's guerrilla war / Joseph M. Beilein Jr -- Larkin M. Skaggs and the massacre(s) at Lawrence / Matthew C. Hulbert -- A spatial approach to Civil War Missouri's domestic supply



line / Andrew Fialka -- Challenging the Union citizen-soldier ideal / Andrew F. Lang -- War guerrillas in a global, comparative context / Earl J. Hess -- Afterword / Daniel E. Sutherland.