Through detailed accounts of Rebel guerrilla, partisan, and raider activities, Mackey strips away romanticized notions of how the 'shadow war' was fought, proving instead that irregular warfare was an integral part of Confederate strategy. Complex military issues shaped both the Confederate irregular war and the Union response. Mackey outlines the Southern strategy of waging war across an entire region, measures the Northern response, and explains the outcome. Alongside this much-studied conflict, the Confederacy also waged an irregular war, based on nineteenth-century principles of unconventional warfare. He first examines the guerrilla method by focusing on Arkansas. Contending armies swept across the region from the outset of the Civil War until its end, marking their passage at Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Perryville, and Manassas. Army since 1988, examines the irregular methods - the guerrilla, the partisan, and the raider - the Confederacy used to combat the Federal Army during the Civil War in the Upper South. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Upper South-Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia-was the scene of the most destructive war ever fought on American soil.
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