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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788186403321

Titolo

The Civil War Guerrilla [[electronic resource] ] : Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth / / edited by Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky, : University Press of Kentucky, 2015

ISBN

0-8131-6534-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

New directions in Southern history

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 Underground movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert -- The hard-line war: the ideological basis of irregular warfare in the western border states / Christopher Phillips -- Controlled chaos: spatiotemporal patterns within Missouri's irregular Civil War / Andrew William Fialka -- Violence, conflict, and loyalty in the Carolina piedmont: a comparative perspective / David Brown and Patrick J. Doyle -- Indians make the best guerrillas: Native Americans and the war for the desert southwest, 1861-1862 / Megan Kate Nelson -- The business of guerrilla memory: selling massacres and the captivity narrative of Sergeant Thomas M. Goodman / Matthew C. Hulbert -- Tales of race, romance, and irregular warfare: guerrillas fictionalized, 1862-1866 / John C. Inscoe -- In search of Manse Jolly: mythology and the facts in the hunt for a post-Civil War guerrilla / Rod Andrew Jr. -- "Nothing but truth is history": William E. Connelley, William H. Gregg, and the pillaging of guerrilla history / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.

Sommario/riassunto

Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by



regular forces. Often referred to as ""the wars within the war,"" guerrilla combat touched states from Virginia to New Mexico. Guerrillas fought for the Union, the Confederacy, their ethnic groups, their tribes, and their families. They were deadly forces that plundered, tortured, and terrorized those in their path, and their impact is not