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035 $a(DLC) 2007017981
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050 00 $aE468.9$b.N438 2007
082 00 $a973.7$222
100 1 $aNeely, Mark E.
245 14 $aThe Civil War and the limits of destruction /$cMark E. Neely, Jr.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2007.
300 $a277 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Destructiveness in the Civil War -- $g1.$tThe Mexican-American War: Republicanism and the Ethos of War -- $g2.$tPrice's Raid: Limited War in Missouri -- $g3.$tEmperor Maximilian's Black Decree: War in the Tropics -- $g4.$tThe Shenandoah Valley: Sheridan and Scorched Earth -- $g5.$tThe Sand Creek Massacre: The Grand Burning of the Prairie -- $g6.$tAvenging Andersonville: Retaliation and the Political Uses of Hatred -- $tConclusion: The Cult of Violence in Civil War History.
520 1 $a"The Civil War is often portrayed as the most brutal war in America's history, a presage of twentieth-century slaughter and carnage. In challenging this view, Mark E. Neely, Jr., considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limits that guided the conduct of American soldiers and statesmen." "Neely begins by contrasting Civil War behavior with U.S. soldiers' experiences in the Mexican-American War of 1846. He examines Price's Raid in Missouri for evidence of deterioration in the restraints imposed by the customs of war; and in a brilliant analysis of Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign, he shows that the actions of U.S. cavalrymen were selective and controlled. The Mexican War of the 1860s between French imperial forces and republicans provided a new yardstick for brutality: Emperor Maximilian's infamous Black Decree threatened captured enemies with execution. Civil War battles, however, paled in comparison with the unrestrained warfare waged against the Plains Indians. Racial beliefs, Neely shows, were a major determinant of wartime behavior." "Destructive rhetoric was rampant in the congressional debate over the resolution to avenge the treatment of Union captives at Andersonville by deliberately starving and freezing to death Confederate prisoners of war. Nevertheless, to gauge the events of the war by the ferocity of its language of political hatred is a mistake, Neely argues. The modern overemphasis on violence in Civil War literature has led many scholars to go too far in drawing close analogies with the twentieth century's "total war" and the grim guerrilla struggles of Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xDestruction and pillage.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140229
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCasualties.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005373
650 0 $aViolence$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWar casualties$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aDeath$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100005
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010109264
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007017981.html
852 00 $bglx$hE468.9$i.N438 2007
852 00 $bbar$hE468.9$i.N438 2007