LEADER 04298nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910790121403321 005 20230516022405.0 010 $a1-280-49090-X 010 $a9786613586131 010 $a0-8203-4383-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176424 035 $a(OCoLC)784960272 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10555745 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000652761 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11419405 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652761 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10642827 035 $a(PQKB)11239049 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039101 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039101 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555745 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358613 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176424 100 $a20110919d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWar upon the land$b[electronic resource] $emilitary strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War /$fLisa M. Brady 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 225 1 $aEnvironmental history and the American South 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-2985-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy. From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even as they battled one another. Northern soldiers encountered unfamiliar landscapes in the South that suggested, to them, an uncivilized society's failure to control nature. Under the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan, the Union army increasingly targeted southern environments as the war dragged on. Whether digging canals, shooting livestock, or dramatically attempting to divert the Mississippi River, the Union aimed to assert mastery over nature by attacking the most potent aspect of southern identity and power agriculture. Brady focuses on the siege of Vicksburg, the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign, marches through Georgia and the Carolinas, and events along the Mississippi River to examine this strategy and its devastating physical and psychological impact. Before the war, many Americans believed in the idea that nature must be conquered and subdued. Brady shows how this perception changed during the war, leading to a wider acceptance of wilderness. Connecting environmental trauma with the onset of American preservation, Brady pays particular attention to how these new ideas of wilderness can be seen in the creation of national battlefield memorial parks as unaltered spaces. Deftly combining environmental and military history with cultural studies, War upon the Land elucidates an intriguing, largely unexplored side of the nation's greatest conflict. 410 0$aEnvironmental history and the American South. 606 $aPhilosophy of nature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aStrategy$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xEnvironmental aspects 607 $aConfederate States of America$xHistory, Military 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCampaigns 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature$xHistory 615 0$aStrategy$xHistory 676 $a973.7/301 700 $aBrady$b Lisa M.$f1971-$01468620 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790121403321 996 $aWar upon the land$93679904 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$34.98$u04/05/2018$5Hist