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Author:

Mountcastle, Clay, 1972-

Title:

Punitive war : confederate guerrillas and union reprisals / Clay Mountcastle.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Underground movements.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Underground movements.
Counterinsurgency--United States--History--19th century.
Guerrilla warfare--United States--History--19th century.
Guerrilla warfare--Confederate States of America.
United States.--Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Guerrillas--United States--History--19th century.
Guerrillas--Confederate States of America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The American Antebellum experience with guerrilla warfare -- Proving ground for punishment: Pope, Halleck, and Schofield in Missouri -- A remedy for all evils: retaliatory destruction on the Mississippi -- War and individual ruin: Sherman's campaigns of 1864 -- The valley aflame: punitive war in Virginia.

Series:

Modern war studies.

ISBN:

0700616683 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700616688 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317361778

LCCN:

2009011965

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)