| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Robert R. Mackey. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865. (Campaign and Commanders Series, number 5.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 288. $34.95.
Robert R. Mackey is a career army officer and an academically trained historian, and he brings to bear insights from both professions in this study of irregular warfare in the American Civil War. In doing so, he sheds new light on the ever-contentious issue of why the South lost.	1
More precisely than any historian who previously examined the subject, Mackey defines the contours of irregular Civil War military operations. The Confederacy, he shows, waged three kinds of warfare aside from the traditional maneuvering of large bodies of highly-organized infantry, artillery, and cavalry on the battlefield. There was, first of all, what he terms guerrilla warfare, carried on by small bands of citizens not in uniform, not enrolled as soldiers, and not acting within the formal military chain of command; they typically made hit-and-run attacks on the periphery of invading enemy armies. The second was partisan warfare, waged by small units of enrolled and uniformed rebel soldiers specially recruited for scouting and sabotage behind enemy lines. The third was raiding warfare, carried out by sizable bodies of regular Confederate cavalry that penetrated deeply behind enemy lines to disrupt supply and communications and then returned to their own lines.	. . .

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