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September, 2006
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The Uncivil War
Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865

By Robert R. Mackey
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 288. Maps, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

U.S. Army officer and Pentagon policy expert Robert R. Mackey's revised Texas A&M University dissertation provocatively revisits Civil War raiding and guerrilla warfare, in a work of considerable relevance to Hoosier Civil War historiography. 1
      Mackey faults many prior accounts for imprecisely defining, and thereby rendering virtually interchangeable, discreet contemporary terms for Civil War irregular troops—especially "guerrilla," "partisan," and "partisan ranger." Further, he contends that Civil War scholarship understates the extent of unconventional fighting in the Upper South and obscures the symbiosis between irregular cavalry and partisan operations and the campaigns of primary Confederate armies. He argues provocatively that Confederate leaders astutely grounded their bid for independence on a "cohesive strategy of irregular warfare" (p.22), and that cavalry and partisan raids were no mere sideshow. In fact, so many such operations occurred that Upper South Confederate civilians commonly conceived the war as defined by "ambush and raid, isolated blockhouse, and burned home," rather than by "set-piece battles" (p. 3). . . .
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