Down in the Trenches, Smeared With Blood

Seventeen years ago, in a spirited and widely reprinted article, Mark E. Neely Jr. sought to refute the notion that the Civil War had been a “total war.” Ever since then, Neely writes in his most recent book, The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, he has “been looking for the factors that explain …

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