TY - BOOK ID - 135384425 TI - A savage conflict PY - 2009 SN - 0807866032 1469605589 0807888672 0807888680 9780807888681 9781469605586 9780807888674 9780807832776 0807832774 1469606887 9781469606880 9798893133608 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Guerrilla warfare KW - Guerrillas KW - History KW - United States KW - Underground movements. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135384425 AB - The American Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies outfitted in blue and gray uniforms, details that characterize conventional warfare. A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them. ER -