Inside war : the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War / Michael Fellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fellman, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guerrillas--Missouri--History--19th century.

Guerrillas.

Missouri--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Underground movements.

Missouri.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Underground movements.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from ""inside,"" drawing on a wealth of first-hand evidence, including letters, diaries, military reports, court-martial transcripts, depositions, and newspaper accounts. He gives us a

Contents:

Preface; Maps and Illustrations; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Before the War; Political Economy; Popular Ideology; Chapter 2. Terror and a Sense of Justice: Civilians in Guerrilla War; Guerrilla Acts of Terror; Union Acts of Terror; A Sense of Justice; Loyalty, Neutralism, and Survival Lies; Collapse of the Sense of Security: Taking of Revenge; The Death of the Peculiar Institution; Flight; Chapter 3. Official Attitudes; Official Union Policy; Official Confederate Policy; Union Policy in the Field; Chapter 4. Brother Killers: Guerrillas and Union Troops; Guerrilla Self-Conceptions

Union Troops' Conceptions of Self and OthersThe Blurring of Combatants; Blood Sport; Blood Revenge; Chapter 5. Women as Victims and Participants; Participation; Fighters and Women; Family, Home, and Womanhood Undermined; Chapter 6. After the War; Postwar Violence and Reconstruction; The Legend of the Noble Guerrilla; Conclusion; Notes; Archival Source List; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 267-313.

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ISBN:

0-19-983925-5

1-280-52505-3

0-19-802193-3

1-4237-3728-8

1-60129-776-9

0-19-506471-2

OCLC:

475955699