War upon the land : military strategy and the transformation of southern landscapes during the American Civil War / Lisa M. Brady.

Author: Brady, Lisa M., 1971-

Imprint:Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

Descriptionxix, 187 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction : nineteenth-century ideas of nature and their role in Civil War strategy -- Hostile territory : Union operations along the Lower Mississippi, 1862-1863 -- Broken country : Union campaigns at and around Vicksburg, 1863 -- Ravaged ground : Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864 -- Devoured land : Sherman's Georgia and Carolina campaigns, 1864-1865 -- Conclusion : making a desert and calling it peace.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index.

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