The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

Assembles contributions from thirty-nine leading historians of the American Civil War into a coherent attempt to assess the war's impact on American society cover The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War Copyright Contents List of Maps List of Contributors Introduction 1. Bleeding Kansas: A Call to Arms 2. The Union Blockade: A Slow Asphyxiation 3. Missouri 1861: War and Identity 4. First Bull Run/​Manassas: Antebellum Military Cultures 5. Eastern Kentucky and Northwestern Virginia, 1861–​1862: Terrain and Loyalty 6. Forts Henry and Donelson: The Material War 7. The Union Occupation of Coastal North Carolina: Foundations for Freedom 8. Campaign for Charleston: Military Science, Emancipation, and Social Collapse 9. The Civil War in Arkansas, 1862: Divided Loyalties and Partisan Warfare 10. New Mexico and the Central Great Plains in the Civil War: Testing U.S. Authority 11. Indian Territory: Social and Political Unraveling 12. Shiloh and Corinth 13. Mississippi Valley, 1862: Politics of Recruitment 14. The Peninsula Campaign and Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, 1862 15. The Seven Days’ Battles and Public Opinion 16. The Kentucky Campaign of 1862 and Drought 17. Second Bull Run/Manassas: Clash of Partisan Armies 18. The Maryland Campaign: Carnage and Emancipation 19. The Battle of Fredericksburg: Military Occupation and Urban Combat 20. Grant’s North Mississippi Campaign, Chickasaw Bayou, and the Bottomlands 21. Stones River: Making Emancipation Work 22. Vicksburg and Port Hudson 23. The Chancellorsville Campaign: Strategic Contingency Point 24. The Gettysburg Campaign: War Comes to Free Soil 25. The Battle of Helena, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Capture of Fort Smith, 1863 26. The Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns: Discord, Disruption, and Defeat 27. The Chattanooga and Knoxville Campaigns: War in the Switzerland of America 28. The Overland Campaign: No Turning Back 29. The Campaign for Atlanta: Displacing Civilians and Tearing Up Georgia 30. Petersburg, Virginia, June–​August 1864 31. The Red River Campaign, 1864: Profits, Politics, and Grand Strategy 32. The 1864 Invasion of Missouri 33. Sherman’s March to the Sea: Home Front Becomes Battlefront 34. Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville: Insurgency and Emancipation 35. Petersburg Besieged and the Shenandoah Valley 36. The Carolinas Campaign: A War Reckoning 37. The Fall of Petersburg and Appomattox 38. Texas, Mobile, and Wilson’s Raid: International Repercussions 39. Occupation, 1865–​1877 Index Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating farms and towns, making refugees of the inhabitants, undermining slavery. Local conditions in turn altered the course of military events. The social effects of military campaigns resonated throughout geographic regions and across time. Campaigns and battles often had a serious impact on national politics and international affairs. Not all campaigns in the Civil War had a dramatic impact on the country, but every campaign, no matter how small, had dramatic and traumatic effects on local communities. Civil War military operations did not occur in a vacuum; there was a price to be paid on many levels of society in both North and South.The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War assembles the contributions of thirty-nine leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare. Every time Union armies invaded Southern territory there were unintended consequences. Military campaigns always affected the local population -- devastating farms and towns, making refugees of the inhabitants, undermining slavery. Local conditions in turn altered the course of military events. The social effects of military campaigns resonated throughout geographic regions and across time. Campaigns and battles often had a serious impact on national politics and international affairs. Not all campaigns in the Civil War had a dramatic impact on the country, but every campaign, no matter how small, had dramatic and traumatic effects on local communities. Civil War military operations did not occur in a vacuum; there was a price to be paid on many levels of society in both North and South. The Oxford Handbook of the American Civil War assembles the contributions of thirty-nine leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare. "This volume integrates the military and social histories of the American Civil War in its chapter organization. Its contributors use War and Society methods: a holistic approach to understanding war and its consequences that incorporates the topics and techniques of a variety of historical sub-fields. Each chapter narrates a military campaign embedded in its strategic, political, and social context. Authors explore the consequences of a military campaign for the people who lived in its path and provide analysis of how an army's presence reverberated throughout society in its region of operation. The volume yields a number of important insights about the impact of military campaigns, including the scale of movement, deportation, and depopulation among civilians; how the refugee experience and military action shaped emancipation as a process; the extent of guerrilla warfare; resistance to Federal authority in the Great Plains and the southwest; locations of localized total war; the implementation of military conscription in the Confederacy; a campaign's consequences for cities, rural areas, and the natural environment; the synergy between war and politics. Chapters consider the role of weather, topography, logistics, and engineering in the conduct of military campaigns"-- Provided by publisher This volume integrates the military and social histories of the American Civil War in its chapter organization. Its contributors use war and society methods: a holistic approach to understanding war and its consequences that incorporates the topics and techniques of a variety of historical subfields. Each chapter narrates a military campaign embedded in its strategic, political, and social context. Authors explore the consequences of a military campaign for the people who lived in its path and provide analysis of how an army’s presence reverberated throughout society in its region of operation. The volume yields a number of important insights about the impact of military campaigns, including the scale of movement, deportation, and depopulation among civilians; how the refugee experience and military action shaped emancipation as a process; the extent of guerrilla warfare; resistance to federal authority in the Great Plains and the Southwest; locations of localized total war; the implementation of military conscription in the Confederacy; a campaign’s consequences for cities, rural areas, and the natural environment; and the synergy between war and politics. Chapters consider the role of weather, topography, logistics, and engineering in the conduct of military campaigns This title assembles the contributions of 39 leading scholars of the Civil War, each chapter advancing the central thesis that operational military history is decisively linked to the social and political history of Civil War America. The chapters cover all three major theaters of the war and include discussions of Bleeding Kansas, the Union naval blockade, the South West, American Indians, and Reconstruction. Each essay offers a particular interpretation of how one of the war's campaigns resonated in the larger world of the North and South. Taken together, these chapters illuminate how key transformations operated across national, regional, and local spheres, covering key topics such as politics, race, slavery, emancipation, gender, loyalty, and guerrilla warfare