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War Upon the Land - Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War (Hardcover, New)
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War Upon the Land - Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War (Hardcover, New)
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In this first book-length environmental history of the American
Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the
environment were central to the development and success of Union
military strategy. From the start of the war, both sides had to
contend with forces of nature, even as they battled one another.
Northern soldiers encountered unfamiliar landscapes in the South
that suggested, to them, an uncivilised society's failure to
control nature. Under the leadership of Ulysses S. Grant, William
Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan, the Union army increasingly
targeted southern environments as the war dragged on. Whether
digging canals, shooting livestock, or dramatically attempting to
divert the Mississippi River, the Union aimed to assert mastery
over nature by attacking the most potent aspect of southern
identity and power-agriculture. Brady focuses on the siege of
Vicksburg, the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign, marches through
Georgia and the Carolinas, and events along the Mississippi River
to examine this strategy and its devastating physical and
psychological impact. Before the war, many Americans believed in
the idea that nature must be conquered and subdued. Brady shows how
this perception changed during the war, leading to a wider
acceptance of wilderness. Connecting environmental trauma with the
onset of American preservation, Brady pays particular attention to
how these new ideas of wilderness can be seen in the creation of
national battlefield memorial parks as unaltered spaces. Deftly
combining environmental and military history with cultural studies,
War upon the Land elucidates an intriguing, largely unexplored side
of the nation's greatest conflict.
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