| #1191070 in Books | University Press of Kansas | 2009-09-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.20 x.90 x6.30l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Implementing "Hard War"|By WAL|The ultimate rightness of the cause has no doubt served to obscure the harsh and pitiless aspects of the Civil War waged by Union forces. However, the "hard war" directed towards the non-combatant population in the Confederacy is an aspect of the war that deserves wider recognition. Clay Mountcastle sets out to address this in "Punitive War", an||“Mountcastle demonstrates, with powerful insight, deep archival research, and crisp writing, the central role of guerilla warfare during the Civil War. . . . This is a close-up view of the real Civil War, unrelentingly savage and utterly inhumane.”
Through widespread and relentless surprise attacks and ambushes, Confederate guerrillas drove Union soldiers and their leaders to desperation. Confederate cavalrymen engaged in hit-and-run tactics; autonomous partisan rangers preyed on Federal railroads, telegraph lines, and supply wagons; and civilian bushwhackers waylaid Union pickets. Together, all of these actions persuaded the Union to wage an increasingly punitive war.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals (Modern War Studies) (Modern War Studies (Hardcover)) | Clay Mountcastle. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
