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Informationen zum Autor My name is Mark Grimsley, and I live on the Fraser Coast. I developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) following an incident during deployment on active service as an aircraft life support fitter for the air force. I felt trapped by my disability until my daughter gave me a camera for Christmas and I taught myself photography. This experience helped me reshape my mind and find some independence and connection with the community again. I now have an extensive collection of local bird and wildlife images. I wish to share my experience with my disorder and educate others about FND and service dogs. Klappentext The Hard Hand of War explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks on Southern property and civilian morale - how it evolved! what it was like in practice. From an initial policy of deliberate restraint! extending even to the active protection of Southerners' property and constitutional rights! Union armies gradually adopted measures that were expressly intended to demoralize Southern civilians and to ruin the Confederate economy. Yet the ultimate "hard war" policy was far from the indiscriminate fury of legend. Union policymakers promoted a program of directed severity - and Professor Grimsley demonstrates how and why it worked. Zusammenfassung This volume! first published in 1996! fits into an interpretation of the Civil War that questions its status as a 'total war' and emphasizes instead the survival of political logic and control even in the midst of a sweeping struggle for the nation's future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The roots of a policy; 2. Conciliation and its challenges; 3. Early occupations; 4. Conciliation abandoned; 5. War in earnest; 6. Emancipation: touchstone of hard war; 7. From pragmatism to hard war; 8. The limits of hard war; 9. Gestures of mercy, pillars of fire.
