Tag: guerrilla warfare

  • Civil War Book Review: Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals

    Mountcastle, Clay. Punitive War: Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals. University Press of Kansas (September 2, 2009). 212 pp., 20 photographs, 5 maps, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1668-8 $29.95 (Cloth). How did Union soldiers respond to guerrilla warfare by Southerners?  Who conceived of and put into practice Union Army punitive measures against Southern civilians?  Just how […]