The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

Civil War historians shed new light on the importance of guerrilla combat across the south in this "useful and fascinating work" (Choice).

Touching states from Virginia to New Mexico, guerrilla warfare played a significant yet underexamined role in the Civil War. Guerrilla fighters fought for both the Union and the Confederacy—as well as their own ethnic groups, tribes, or families. They were deadly forces that plundered, tortured, and terrorized those in their path, and their impact is not...