I am peter karmanos, jr. Director of the civil institute here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make Civil War History
Succession. Actual soldiers had a delight in destroying the cradle of the confederacy. They use them as bringing the war upon them. I think we have one more question. Why did it stop . Citieswe not see further earned in the same kind of mercenary manner . Withdrew back into virginia and they were occupied. Did notticular strategy move forward from that point on. Did theire certainly fair share of burning throughout the war. They did not have the opportunity as much in the north. Burn parts of town. For a monetary reason . There were a lot of soldiers. Ofy took great joy in our revenge on both sides. Field or because these were the houses that a woman whose that at us or that kind of a vengeful action. That was more individually direct did. Screeria nigeria. Tenness that resulted in the almost total destruction of his army. Remind your children in this by centennial year, when we are the first generation of the americans who have experienced attacks on the continental United States, we
Sometimes they destroyed their own cities as a defensive strategy. Hampton, virginia, arts of atlanta, and most of richmonds Business District got the torch as the confederates evacuated the cities, retreating before overwhelmingly large union army. The thought was that they would destroy their own war material before the unions inventing armies could get at it. The confederates also burned some towns and cities in the offensive maneuvers. During the 1862 and 1863 campaigns into maryland and pennsylvania, during cavalry raids on Southern Union is towns, and during guerrilla campaigns in the border region. The burning of chambersburg, pennsylvania on july 30, 1864 was one such often active disruption. It is an unusual at the mistress of this warped time practice for several reasons. First, it was a northern town in a northern and not a border state. Second, the conversations about the smoking ruins of chambersburg shifted the discussion of civilized warfare, pitting northern civilians a
Here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make Civil War History hip. [laughter] and i think you are going to do it. Toda
Own cities as a defensive strategy. Hampton, virginia, arts of atlanta, and most of richmonds Business District got the torch as the confederates evacuated the cities, retreating before overwhelmingly large union army. The thought was that they would destroy their own war material before the unions inventing armies could get at it. The confederates also burned some towns and cities in the offensive maneuvers. During the 1862 and 1863 campaigns into maryland and pennsylvania, during cavalry raids on Southern Union is towns, and during guerrilla campaigns in the border region. The burning of chambersburg, pennsylvania on july 30, 1864 was one such often active disruption. It is an unusual at the mistress of this warped time practice for several reasons. First, it was a northern town in a northern and not a border state. Second, the conversations about the smoking ruins of chambersburg shifted the discussion of civilized warfare, pitting northern civilians against northern military and go