The hard hand of war

Mark Grimsley
Cambridge University Press
 9780521462570
0-521-46257-6

This volume fits into an emerging 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.

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struggle for the nation's future. Through comparisons with earlier European wars and through the testimony of Union soldiers and Southern civilians alike, he shows that Union soldiers exercised restraint even as they made war against the Confederate civilian population.