Inside war [[electronic resource] ] : the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War / / Michael Fellman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465739603321
• Autore: Fellman Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 1-280-52505-3; 0-19-802193-3; 1-4237-3728-8; 1-60129-776-9; 0-19-506471-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7/478
• Soggetti: Guerrillas - Missouri - History - 19th century; Electronic books.; Missouri History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 267-313.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Maps and Illustrations; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Before the War; Political Economy; Popular Ideology; Chapter 2. Terror and a Sense of Justice: Civilians in Guerrilla War; Guerrilla Acts of Terror; Union Acts of Terror; A Sense of Justice; Loyalty, Neutralism, and Survival Lies; Collapse of the Sense of Security: Taking of Revenge; The Death of the Peculiar Institution; Flight; Chapter 3. Official Attitudes; Official Union Policy; Official Confederate Policy; Union Policy in the Field; Chapter 4. Brother Killers: Guerrillas and Union Troops; Guerrilla Self-Conceptions; Union Troops' Conceptions of Self and OthersThe Blurring of Combatants; Blood Sport; Blood Revenge; Chapter 5. Women as Victims and Participants; Participation; Fighters and Women; Family, Home, and Womanhood Undermined; Chapter 6. After the War; Postwar Violence and Reconstruction; The Legend of the Noble Guerrilla; Conclusion; Notes; Archival Source List; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from ""inside,"" drawing on a wealth of first-hand evidence, including letters, diaries, military reports, court-martial transcripts, depositions, and newspaper accounts. He gives us a