The Civil War and the Limits of DestructionThe 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. |
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... Maximilian's in- famous Black Decree threatened captured ene- mies with execution . Civil War battles , however , paled in comparison with the unrestrained war- fare waged against the Plains Indians . Racial be- liefs , Neely shows ...
... MAXIMILIAN'S BLACK DECREE War in the Tropics 72 4. THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY Sheridan and Scorched Earth 109 5. THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE The Grand Burning of the Prairie 140 6. AVENGING ANDERSONVILLE Retaliation and the Political Uses of ...
... Maximilian , placed on the throne by an invading French army . Mexican reaction- aries had invited Maximilian into the country , and the resulting con- flict was a civil war also . Since it occurred simultaneously with the great ...
... Maximilian was attempting to hold sway over a people of another race . These were the most fundamental intellectual abstractions on which the people in the period shaped their day - to - day behavior in peace and war . In the end , then ...
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Contents
THE MEXICANAMERICAN WAR Republicanism and the Ethos of War | 7 |
PRICES RAID Limited War in Missouri | 41 |
EMPEROR MAXIMILIANS BLACK DECREE War in the Tropics | 72 |
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY Sheridan and Scorched Earth | 109 |
THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE The Grand Burning of the Prairie | 140 |
AVENGING ANDERSONVILLE Retaliation and the Political Uses of Hatred | 170 |
The Cult of Violence in Civil War History | 198 |