![]() ![]() He then presents sections describing each type of irregular warfare waged by the Confederates, the conditions conducive to its success, and-especially important-the Federal response to each Rebel effort. He begins with a survey of nineteenth-century military thought about irregular warfare and its legal status and follows it with a brief survey of how that warfare has been portrayed in Civil War literature. Robert Mackey offers us a general study of "irregular warfare in the Upper South," by which he means Arkansas, Virginia, and the Kentucky-Tennessee area. ![]() In recent years many military writers have branched out from traditional battle studies featuring highly detailed (indeed, sometimes mind-numbing) tactical minutiae to explore important, if lesser-known, facets of the American Civil War. ![]()
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