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A Savage Conflict

The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

Daniel E. Sutherland

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2009
Pages: 456
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807888674

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While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.

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