Civil War Guerrilla - Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth

Informationen zum Autor Joseph M. Beilein Jr. is assistant professor of history at Penn State University, Erie. He is the author of Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri . Matthew C. Hulbert teaches American history at Texas A&M University - Kingsville. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West , which won the 2017 Wiley-Silver Prize, and the co-editor of Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America . Klappentext Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the wars within the war," guerrilla combat touched states from Virginia to New Mexico. Guerrillas fought for the Union, the Confederacy, their ethnic groups, their tribes, and their families. They were d Zusammenfassung They also explore how the Civil War guerrilla has been mythologized in history, literature, and folklore. The Civil War Guerrilla sheds new light on the ways in which thousands of men, women, and children experienced and remembered the Civil War as a conflict of irregular wills and tactics.

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• Authors: Joseph M. Beilein
• Assisted by: Joseph M Beilein (Editor), Joseph M. Beilein (Editor), Joseph M. Beilein Jr. (Editor), Matthew C Hulbert (Editor), Matthew C. Hulbert (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9780813165325
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-6532-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: New Directions in Southern His; New Directions in Southern History; New Directions in Southern His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous