Hundreds of Little Wars Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War

Beckenbaugh, Terry L. (Contributor)/ Eichhorn, Niels (Contributor)/ Foote, Lorien (Contributor)/ Forrest, Madeleine C. (Contributor)/ Gordon, Lesley J. (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 0807182206 / ISBN 13: 9780807182208

Published by Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2025

272 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # __0807182206

Synopsis:

From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Sutherland, whose many books and essays helped establish the field of community studies, these varied assemblages of individuals experienced and fought the real war. Following his lead, the contributors to Hundreds of Little Wars reveal how viewing the war from the vantage point of singular communities allows us to better understand the larger conflict.

The volume includes contributions from a wide array of Civil War scholars. Lesley J. Gordon and Eric P. Totten examine military outfits, namely the 126th New York Regiment and the 4th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Madeleine C. Forrest provides an analysis of Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1862, and Matthew M. Stith evaluates a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in East Texas. Christopher Phillips and Scott A. Tarnowieckyi investigate the middle border region spanning the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers. Lorien Foote and G. David Schieffler assess the demographically diverse Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, as well as Helena, Arkansas. Barton A. Myers and Terry L. Beckenbaugh employ Sutherland’s framing while considering irregular war, first with an examination of partisan officers and then with a survey of the White River Valley in Arkansas. Finally, Niels Eichhorn and Michael Shane Powers assume a transnational viewpoint, comparing Richmond with Vienna, Austria, and analyzing a community of Confederate veterans in Central America.

The essays in Hundreds of Little Wars show that no one single conflict defined the Civil War. Instead, hundreds of wars existed, variously categorized by geography, race, gender, environment, and myriad other factors. Only by concentrating on these communities can we grasp the scope and complexity of the Civil War.

About the Author: <b>G. David Schieffler </b>is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.<br><br><b>Matthew M. Stith</b> is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Tyler and author or editor of four books, including <i>Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier </i>(LSU Press, 2016).

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Title: Hundreds of Little Wars Community, ...
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
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