The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating farms and towns, making refugees of the inhabitants, undermining slavery. Local conditions in turn altered the course of military events. The social effects of military campaigns resonated throughout geographic regions and across time. Campaigns and battles often had a serious impact on national politics and international affairs. Not all campaigns in the Civil War had a dramatic impact on the country, but every campaign, no matter how small, had dramatic and traumatic effects on local communities. Civil War military operations did not occur in a vacuum; there was a price to be paid on many levels of society in both North and South. The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War assembles the contributions of thirty-nine leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare.
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The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War
Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating farms and towns, making refugees of the inhabitants, undermining slavery. Local conditions in turn altered the course of military events. The social effects of military campaigns resonated throughout geographic regions and across time. Campaigns and battles often had a serious impact on national politics and international affairs. Not all campaigns in the Civil War had a dramatic impact on the country, but every campaign, no matter how small, had dramatic and traumatic effects on local communities. Civil War military operations did not occur in a vacuum; there was a price to be paid on many levels of society in both North and South. The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War assembles the contributions of thirty-nine leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare.
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Overview

Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating farms and towns, making refugees of the inhabitants, undermining slavery. Local conditions in turn altered the course of military events. The social effects of military campaigns resonated throughout geographic regions and across time. Campaigns and battles often had a serious impact on national politics and international affairs. Not all campaigns in the Civil War had a dramatic impact on the country, but every campaign, no matter how small, had dramatic and traumatic effects on local communities. Civil War military operations did not occur in a vacuum; there was a price to be paid on many levels of society in both North and South. The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War assembles the contributions of thirty-nine leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare.

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ISBN-13: 9780197549988
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/12/2021
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 624
File size: 46 MB
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About the Author

Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of four books about the American Civil War including The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners of War, The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army, and Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform. Earl J. Hess, Emeritus Professor of History at Lincoln Memorial University, is the author of twenty-four books about the Civil War, including Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies, Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation, and Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness.

Table of Contents

Introduction Lorien Foote and Earl J. Hess 1. “From Border War to Civil War”: Bleeding Kansas as a Call to Arms Kristen T. Oertel 2. A Slow Asphyxiation: The Cumulative Impact of the Union Blockade Craig L. Symonds 3. “We will fight, and hope for the best”: The Outbreak of Civil War and Missouri Identity 1861 Ethan S. Rafuse 4. First Bull Run/Manassas: Southern Victory, Union Defeat, and Antebellum Military Culture Barbara A. Gannon 5. Drawing a Line in Appalachia: The Influence of Terrain and Loyalty on Community Level Warfare in Eastern Kentucky and Northwestern Virginia, 1861-1862 Brian D. McKnight 6. The Material War: Battling for Resources during the Campaign for Forts Henry and Donelson Jason Phillips 7. The Union Occupation of Coastal North Carolina: Foundations for Freedom David Silkenat 8. Symbol of Secession, Symbol of Freedom: Military Science, Emancipation, and Social Collapse in the Campaign for Charleston Lorien Foote 9. The Civil War in Arkansas, 1862: Confederate Neglect, Divided Loyalties, and Partisan Warfare Thomas W. Cutrer 10. Testing U.S. Authority in the Far West: The New Mexico Campaign and the War for the Central Plains Stacey L. Smith 11. Torn by War: The Social and Political Unraveling of Indian Territory Clarissa W. Confer 12. Shiloh and Corinth: The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War Stephen Engle 13. The Collapse of Confederate Resistance in the Mississippi Valley in 1862 and the Politics of Recruitment Michael D. Pierson 14. Toward Hard War: The Peninsula Campaign and Jackson in the Valley, 1862 Christopher S. Stowe 15. “The Nation's Disappointment”: The Seven Days' Battles and Public Opinion Timothy J. Orr 16. “The Most Terrible March”: Drought and the Kentucky Campaign Kenneth W. Noe 17. Western Republicans Confront Eastern Democrats: Second Manassas as a Partisan Flashpoint of Regional Ideologies John H. Matsui 18. The Maryland Campaign: Carnage and Emancipation D. Scott Hartwig 19. The Battle of Fredericksburg: Military Occupation, Urban Conflict, and the Defeat of Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac Barton A. Myers 20. Opening the Deep South: Grant's North Mississippi Campaign, Chickasaw Bayou, and Exploitation of the Bottomlands Earl J. Hess 21. Stones River: Making Emancipation Work Earl J. Hess 22. The Fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson: Opening the Mississippi and Fracturing the Deep South Earl J. Hess 23. The Chancellorsville Campaign: Strategic Contingency Point Christian B. Keller 24. War Comes to Free Soil: The Gettysburg Campaign of June-July 1863 Carol Reardon 25. The Battle of Helena, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Capture of Fort Smith: Emancipation, Loyalty, and Social-Economic Change in Arkansas Carl Moneyhan 26. The Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns: Discord, Disruption, and Defeat Andrew S. Bledsoe 27. War in the Switzerland of America: Chattanooga and Knoxville Campaigns Aaron Astor 28. The Overland Campaign, Spring 1864: Securing Freedom and the Union in Virginia Lisa Tendrich Frank and Brooks D. Simpson 29. The Campaign for Atlanta: Displacing Civilians and Tearing Up Georgia Earl J. Hess 30. Petersburg, Virginia June-August 1864: Confederate City in the Crisis of War A. Wilson Greene 31. The Red River Campaign, 1864: The Union's Effort to Conquer, Pacify, and Reconstruct Louisiana and Texas T. Michael Parrish 32. The 1864 Invasion of Missouri: Sterling Price, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Fundamental Failure of the Confederate Military Joseph M. Beilein, Jr. 33. Home Front Becomes Battlefront: Sherman's March to the Sea Anne J. Bailey 34. Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: Battle, Insurgency, and Freed People on the Road to Emancipation in the Heartland B.F. Cooling 35. Petersburg Besieged and the Valley on Fire: The Beginning of the End in Virginia James Marten 36. “Judgments of the Lord”: The Carolinas as a Campaign of Reckoning Christopher Phillips 37. The Fall of Petersburg and Flight to Appomattox in the Spring of 1865: Victory, Defeat, and the Demise of Slavery Elizabeth R. Varon 38. International Repercussions: Texas, Mobile, and Wilson's Raid Earl J. Hess 39. Occupation, 1865-1877 Andrew F. Lang
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