The Civil War Guerrilla (eBook)

Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

Joseph M. Beilein, Matthew C. Hulbert (Herausgeber)

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2015
258 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6534-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 yet fully understood.

In this richly diverse volume, Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert assemble a team of both rising and eminent scholars to examine guerrilla warfare in the South during the Civil War. Together, they discuss irregular combat as practiced by various communities in multiple contexts, including how it was used by Native Americans, the factors that motivated raiders in the border states, and the women who participated as messengers, informants, collaborators, and combatants. They also explore how the Civil War guerrilla has been mythologized in history, literature, and folklore.

The Civil War Guerrilla sheds new light on the ways in which thousands of men, women, and children experienced and remembered the Civil War as a conflict of irregular wills and tactics. Through thorough research and analysis, this timely book provides readers with a comprehensive examination of the guerrilla soldier and his role in the deadliest war in U.S. history.

Autor

lt;P>Joseph M. Beilein Jr. is assistant professor of history at Penn State University, Erie. He is the author of Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri.

Matthew C. Hulbert teaches American history at Texas A&M University - Kingsville. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, which won the 2017 Wiley-Silver Prize, and the co-editor of Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America.

Inhalt

ForewordIntroductionThe Harder Way of War: The Ideological Basis of Irregular Warfare in the Western Border StatesControlled Chaos: Spatiotemporal Patterns within Missouri's Irregular Civil WarViolence, Conflict, and Loyalty in the Carolina Piedmont: A Comparative PerspectiveIndians Make the Best Guerillas: Native Americans and the War for the Desert Southwest, 1861-1862The Business of Guerrilla Memory: Selling Massacres and the Captivity Narrative of Sergeant Thomas M. GoodmanTales of Race, Romance, and Irregular Warfare: Guerrillas Fictionalized, 1862-1866In Search of Manse Jolly: Mythology and the Facts in the Hunt for a Post-Civil War GuerrillaNothing but Truth is History: William E. Connelley, William H. Gregg, and the Pillaging of Guerrilla HistoryAfterword

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2015
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Southern History
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Southern History
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Southern History
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w halftones, 4 maps
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th Century America • 19th century distilleries • Americana • american heritage • American History • blazer's scouts • blazer’s scouts • bluegrass culture • Bluegrass region • bourbon books • bourbon distilleries • bourbon history • captain Cooper • Carolina Piedmont • civil war essays • civil war folklore • civil war guerrillas • civil war guerrillas in fiction • civil war history • civil war in the american southwest • civil war irregular warfare • Civil War memory • civil war mythology • civil war native americans • civil war popular culture • civil war raiders • confederate guerrillas • distillery district • Historic architecture • Historic Buildings • historic photography • History • history essays • industrial photography • irregular civil war • irregular fighters • Irregular warfare • John Hunt Morgan • john singleton modby • Kentucky culture • Kentucky heritage • kentucky history • manse jolly • military history • Missouri guerrillas • morgan’s raiders • Morgan's Raiders • native american guerrillas • Native Americans in the Civil War • navite american guerrillas • photography books • quantrill's raiders • quantrill’s raiders • southern history • union army guerrillas • whiskey history • whiskey stills • white's comanches • white’s comanches • William Clarke quantrell • women in the Civil War
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6534-2 / 0813165342
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6534-9 / 9780813165349