001478619 000__ 04891nam\a22007695i\4500 001478619 001__ 1478619 001478619 003__ DE-B1597 001478619 005__ 20231026034948.0 001478619 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478619 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478619 008__ 230918t20092007mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478619 020__ $$a9780674041363 001478619 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674041363$$2doi 001478619 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574533 001478619 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478619 0410_ $$aeng 001478619 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478619 072_7 $$aHIS027110$$2bisacsh 001478619 08204 $$a973.7 001478619 1001_ $$aNeely Jr., Mark E., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001478619 24514 $$aThe Civil War and the Limits of Destruction /$$cMark E. Neely Jr. 001478619 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2009] 001478619 264_4 $$c©2007 001478619 300__ $$a1 online resource (288 p.) 001478619 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478619 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478619 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478619 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478619 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. The Mexican-American War -- $$t2. Price's Raid -- $$t3. Emperor Maximilian's Black Decree -- $$t4. The Shenandoah Valley -- $$t5. The Sand Creek Massacre -- $$t6. Avenging Andersonville -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tSelected Bibliography -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIllustration Sources -- $$tIndex 001478619 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478619 520__ $$aThe Civil War is often portrayed as the most brutal war in America's history, a premonition of twentieth-century slaughter and carnage. In challenging this view, Mark E. Neely, Jr., considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limits that guided the conduct of American soldiers and statesmen. Neely begins by contrasting Civil War behavior with U.S. soldiers' experiences in the Mexican War of 1846. He examines Price's Raid in Missouri for evidence of deterioration in the restraints imposed by the customs of war; and in a brilliant analysis of Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign, he shows that the actions of U.S. cavalrymen were selective and controlled. The Mexican war of the 1860s between French imperial forces and republicans provided a new yardstick for brutality: Emperor Maximilian's infamous Black Decree threatened captured enemies with execution. Civil War battles, however, paled in comparison with the unrestrained warfare waged against the Plains Indians. Racial beliefs, Neely shows, were a major determinant of wartime behavior. Destructive rhetoric was rampant in the congressional debate over the resolution to avenge the treatment of Union captives at Andersonville by deliberately starving and freezing to death Confederate prisoners of war. Nevertheless, to gauge the events of the war by the ferocity of its language of political hatred is a mistake, Neely argues. The modern overemphasis on violence in Civil War literature has led many scholars to go too far in drawing close analogies with the twentieth century's "total war" and the grim guerrilla struggles of Vietnam. 001478619 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478619 546__ $$aIn English. 001478619 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001478619 650_4 $$aHISTORY / Military / United States$$2sh. 001478619 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478619 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$z9783110756067 001478619 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478619 852__ $$bebk 001478619 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041363$$zOnline Access 001478619 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478619$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478619 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478619 912__ $$a978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$b2013 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478619 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001478619 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478619 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001478619 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478619 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001478619 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478619 980__ $$aBIB 001478619 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478619 982__ $$aEbook 001478619 983__ $$aOnline