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Civil War Arkansas : beyond battles and leaders

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This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the struggles between White and Black civilians an soldiers and also shows that the war years were a time of great change and personal conflict for the citizens of the state, despite the absence of "great" battles or armies. All the essays, which have been previously published in scholarly journals, have been revised to reflect recent scholarship in the field. Each selection explores a military or social dimension of the war that has been largely ignored or which is unique to the war in Arkansas : gristmill destruction, military farm colonies, niter mining operations, mountain clan skirmishes, federal plantation experiments, and racial atrocities and reprisals. Together, the essays provoke thought on the character and cost of the war away from the great battlefields and suggest the pervasive change wrought by its destructiveness. -- From the back cover.

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Title

Civil War Arkansas : beyond battles and leaders

Call No

E496

Authors

Bailey, Anne J.
Sutherland, Daniel E.

Subjects

ea Ridge, Battle of, Ark., 1862.
Arkansas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Arkansas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Language

English

Published

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2000.

Publication Desc

x, 304 pages : illustrations, map ;

ISBN

1557285640

(cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

99048841

Series

The Civil War in the West

Dimensions

24 cm.

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This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the struggles between White and Black civilians an soldiers and also shows that the war years were a time of great change and personal conflict for the citizens of the state, despite the absence of "great" battles or armies. All the essays, which have been previously published in scholarly journals, have been revised to reflect recent scholarship in the field. Each selection explores a military or social dimension of the war that has been largely ignored or which is unique to the war in Arkansas : gristmill destruction, military farm colonies, niter mining operations, mountain clan skirmishes, federal plantation experiments, and racial atrocities and reprisals. Together, the essays provoke thought on the character and cost of the war away from the great battlefields and suggest the pervasive change wrought by its destructiveness. --
From the back cover.

Content Note

Introduction:The History and Historians of Arkansas's Civil War / Anne J. Bailey, Daniel E. Sutherland -- Henry McCulloch's Texans and the Defense of Arkansas in 1862 / Anne J. Bailey -- Wartime Gristmill Destruction in Northwest Arkansas and Military Farm Colonies / Michael A. Hughes -- Bullets for Johnny Reb: Confederate Nitre and Mining Bureau in Arkansas / James J. Johnston -- A Semi-Savage State: The Image of Arkansas in the Civil War / William L. Shea -- Preacher, the Lawyer, and the Spoils of War / Kim Allen Scott -- Disloyalty and Class Consciousness in Southwestern Arkansas, 1862-1865 / Carl H. Moneyhon -- Guerrillas: The Real War in Arkansas / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Williams Clan: Mountain Farmers and Union Fighters in North Central Arkansas / Kenneth C. Barnes -- From Slave to Free Labor: The Federal Plantation Experiment in Arkansas / Carl H. Moneyhon -- Brother against Brother: The Winter Skirmishes along the Arkansas River, 1864-1865 / Jayme Millsap Stone -- "We Cannot Treat Negroes ... as Prisoners of War": Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in Civil War Arkansas / Gregory J. W. Urwin.