Brady, Lisa M., 1971-
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.
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Part of the series Environmental history and the American South;Environmental history and the American South.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index.
• Introduction : nineteenth-century ideas of nature and their role in Civil War strategy — Hostile territory : Union operations along the Lower Mississippi, 1862-1863 — Broken country : Union campaigns at and around Vicksburg, 1863 — Ravaged ground : Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864 — Devoured land : Sherman’s Georgia and Carolina campaigns, 1864-1865 — Conclusion : making a desert and calling it peace.

Subjects:

• United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Environmental aspects.
• Philosophy of nature — United States — History — 19th century.
• Strategy — History — 19th century.
• Confederate States of America — History, Military.
• United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Campaigns.

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