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 | #2022643 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2007-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .94 x5.54 x8.44l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Less than Compelling Argument|By Adam Harmon|I will come out and say it. I am a Unionist through and through and feel that too much blame is thrown on the feet of the yanks and not enough of the blame taken by the rebs for their own actions. And I was looking forward to a read that finally tries to prove the Federals were not a bloodthirsty and lawless as described.

The 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.

Neely begins by contrasting Civil War behavior with U.S. soldiers' experiences in the Mexican War of 1846. He examines Price's Ra...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction   |  Mark E. Neely Jr.. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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