The ghosts of guerrilla memory
Subtitle: how Civil War bushwhackers became gunslingers in the American west
By: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Series: Uncivil wars; Uncivil wars
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780820350011; 9780820350028
Subjects: Underground movements; Influence; History
Description: The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This book chronicles the history of “guerrilla memory,” the collision of the Civil War memory “industry” with the somber realities of irregular warfare in the borderlands of Missouri and Kansas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the borderlands of memory; title: The nastiest bits; title: An irregular lost cause; title: Rebooting guerrilla memory; title: Getting the band back together; title: The gatekeepers' conundrum; title: The unionists strike back; title: Guerrillas gone wild in the west; title: Black flags and silver screens; title: Epilogue: notes from the [disappearing] guerrilla theater.