The Civil War Guerrilla

Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

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

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2015
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6532-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Joseph M. Beilein Jr. is assistant professor of history at Penn State University, Erie, USA. He has published articles and reviews in publications including Civil War History and The Civil War Monitor. Matthew C. Hulbert has published articles in Civil War History, The Journal of the Civil War Era, Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, and Journal of the West.

Foreword Introduction The Harder Way of War: The Ideological Basis of Irregular Warfare in the Western Border States Controlled Chaos: Spatiotemporal Patterns within Missouri's Irregular Civil War Violence, Conflict, and Loyalty in the Carolina Piedmont: A Comparative Perspective Indians Make the Best Guerillas: Native Americans and the War for the Desert Southwest, 1861-1862 The Business of Guerrilla Memory: Selling Massacres and the Captivity Narrative of Sergeant Thomas M. Goodman Tales of Race, Romance, and Irregular Warfare: Guerrillas Fictionalized, 1862-1866 In Search of Manse Jolly: Mythology and the Facts in the Hunt for a Post-Civil War Guerrilla "Nothing but Truth is History": William E. Connelley, William H. Gregg, and the Pillaging of Guerrilla History Afterword

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Southern History
Zusatzinfo	9 b&w photos, 4 maps
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8131-6532-6 / 0813165326
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-6532-5 / 9780813165325
Zustand	Neuware