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"Hundreds of Little Wars: Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War features twelve community studies that reveal how viewing the war from the vantage of a single community helps us understand the Civil War between the battles and campaigns. From Texas to Virginia, communities in the form of regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and refugee camps marked a significant part of the conflict. According to renowned Civil War historian Daniel Sutherland, whose numerous books and essays on communities during the conflict helped established the field, it was in these places that the "real war" occurred. Hundreds of Little Wars is divided into seven parts. First, Lesley J. Gordon and Eric P. Totten examine regimental communities, namely the 126th New York Regiment and the 4th New Hampshire. Next, Madeleine C. Forrest explores perhaps the most traditional community-one at the county level-with an analysis of Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1862. Part 3 contains an essay by Matthew M. Stith about nature and community in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in East Texas. Next, Christopher Phillips and Scott Tarnowieckyi investigate communities in the middle border region spanning the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers. In Part 5, Lorien Foote and G. David Schieffler apply a local assessment to hybrid communities in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia and at Helena, Arkansas. Barton A. Myers and Terry L. Beckenbaugh then move the community perspective to the irregular war-first by examining partisan officers and then with a study of the White River Valley in Arkansas. Finally, Niels Eichhorn and Michael Shane Powers broaden the community view to a transnational scope, comparing Richmond and Vienna and analyzing a community of Confederate veterans in Central America. The essays in Hundreds of Little Wars collectively show that the many "little wars" off traditional battlefields represent the real Civil War, or at least a war as real and wide-ranging as the conventional fighting. There was no singular real war. Instead, there existed hundreds of wars variously defined by geography, race, gender, environment, and myriad more factors. Following Sutherland's lead, this volume's contributors contend that only by concentrating on a single community can we ever hope to grasp the diversity and reality of the Civil War"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: The better angels of academe / by Patrick G. Williams
• Introduction: Getting the little wars into the books / G. David Schieffler and Matthew M. Stith
• Made victims instead of heroes : communal identity in a Civil War Unit / Lesley J. Gordon
• Civil-military communities in conflict: the 1862 occupation of Saint Augustine, Florida, and the politics of emancipation / Eric P. Totten
• Occupiers in a strange land : a Virginia community's wartime experiences in 1862 / Madeleine C. Forrest
• Camp Ford, Texas : nature and community in the "dark corner of the Confederacy" / Matthew M. Stith
• Dark, muddy, troublous, and stormy times: uncivil wars in the middle border's Civil War communities / Christopher Phillips
• Reluctant Yankees : the lower Green River Country of Kentucky, 1861 / Scott A. Tarnowieckyi
• The Sea Islands' John Brown : Hybrid Communities in the Department of the South / Lorien Foote
• Unwriting the freedom narrative in the trans-Mississippi : the Black refugee community at Helena, Arkansas, 1862-1863 / G. David Schieffler
• Partisan rangers : examining a community of irregular Civil War officers, 1861-1865 / Barton A. Myers
• War comes to the White River Valley communities, June 1862 / Terry L. Beckenbaugh
• Capitals and communities in war andrevolution : Vienna and Richmond / Niels Eichhorn
• Mayor Burke and Capitán Imboden : the workings of a community of Confederate veterans in Central America / Michael Shane Powers
• Afterword / by Elliott West.

Contributors:

Schieffler, G. David , editor

Stith, Matthew M. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hundreds of little wars (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2025] — ISBN 9780807182208; LCCN 2024033320)

Related Series:

Conflicting worlds

Subjects:

Communities — Confederate States of America

Communities — Border States

Confederate States of America — Social conditions

Border States (U.S. Civil War) — Social conditions

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Social aspects

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

E487 .H86 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780807183885 (electronic book)
0807183881 (electronic book)
9780807183892 (electronic book)
080718389X (electronic book)
9780807182208 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024033321

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31755991 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306863078