The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807164976 ISBN 13: 9780807164976

Publisher: LSU Press, 2017

Synopsis

Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare―including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics―thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy on, harass, and steal from Union forces, to men like John Gatewood, who deserted the Confederate army in favor of targeting Tennessee civilians believed to be in sympathy with the Union.

With a foreword by Kenneth W. Noe and an afterword by Daniel E. Sutherland, this collection represents an impressive array of the foremost experts on guerrilla fighting in the Civil War. Providing new interpretations of this long-misconstrued aspect of warfare, these scholars go beyond the conventional battlefield to examine the stories of irregular combatants across all theaters of the Civil War, bringing geographic breadth to what is often treated as local and regional history. The Guerrilla Hunters shows that instances of unorthodox combat, once thought isolated and infrequent, were numerous, and many clashes defy easy categorization. Novel methodological approaches and a staggering diversity of research and topics allow this volume to support multiple areas for debate and discovery within this growing field of Civil War scholarship.

About this title

Book Description

The Guerrilla Hunters brings together an impressive roster of experts examining the
myriad issues of the American Civil War’s many guerrilla conflicts. The study of
guerrilla warfare has entered a renaissance during the last decade, and in this volume,
the editors present groundbreaking new arguments that will shape the future study of
one of the most creative areas of new historical scholarship on the American Civil War.
Readers who ignore these guerrilla wars will never fully understand the nature of
military history during the American Civil War.

About the Author

Brian D. McKnight is Professor of History and Founding Director of the Center for Appalachian Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. He is the author Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia and Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia which won the James I. Robertson Literary Prize.
Barton A. Myers is Associate Professor of Civil War History at Washington and Lee University and the author of the awarding winning Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (LSU Press, 2009) and Rebels Against the Confederacy: North Carolina's Unionists (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0807164976
• ISBN 13: 9780807164976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: McKnight Brian D., Myers Barton A.