War upon the land
Subtitle: military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War
By: Lisa M. Brady
Series: Environmental history and the American South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780820329857; 9780820342498
Subjects: Campaigns; Military History; Philosophy of nature; Environmental aspects; History; Strategy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : nineteenth-century ideas of nature and their role in Civil War strategy; title: Hostile territory : Union operations along the Lower Mississippi, 1862-1863; title: Broken country : Union campaigns at and around Vicksburg, 1863; title: Ravaged ground : Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864; title: Devoured land : Sherman's Georgia and Carolina campaigns, 1864-1865; title: Conclusion : making a desert and calling it peace.