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During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D. H. Dilbeck reveals how the Union sought to wage a just war against the Confederacy. He shows that northerners fought according to a distinct moral vision of war, an array of ideas about the nature of a truly just and humane military effort. Dilbeck tells how Union commanders crafted rules of conduct to ensure their soldiers defeated the Confederacy as swiftly as possible while also limiting the total destruction unleashed by the fighting. Dilbeck explores how Union soldiers abided by official just-war policies as they battled guerrillas, occupied cities, retaliated against enemy soldiers, and came into contact with Confederate civilians.
In contrast to recent scholarship focused solely on the Civil Wars carnage, Dilbeck details how the Union sought both to deal sternly with Confederates and to adhere to certain constraints. The Unions earnest effort to wage a just war ultimately helped give the Civil War its distinct character, a blend of immense destruction and remarkable restraint.
In contrast to recent scholarship focused solely on the Civil Wars carnage, Dilbeck details how the Union sought both to deal sternly with Confederates and to adhere to certain constraints. The Unions earnest effort to wage a just war ultimately helped give the Civil War its distinct character, a blend of immense destruction and remarkable restraint.
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A More Civil War
CIVIL WAR AMERICA
Peter S. Carmichael, Caroline E. Janney, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, editors
This landmark series interprets broadly the history and culture of the Civil War era through the long nineteenth century and beyond. Drawing on diverse approaches and methods, the series publishes historical works that explore all aspects of the war, biographies of leading commanders, and tactical and campaign studies, along with select editions of primary sources. Together, these books shed new light on an era that remains central to our understanding of American and world history.
D. H. DILBECK
A More Civil War
How the Union Waged a Just War
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
2016 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Set in Arno by Westchester Publishing Services
Manufactured in the United States of America
The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dilbeck, D. H., author.
Title: A more civil war : how the Union waged a just war / D. H. Dilbeck.
Other titles: Civil War America (Series)
Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2016. | Series: Civil War America | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015049991 | ISBN 9781469630519 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469630526 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Moral and ethical aspects. | United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865. | WarMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th century.
Classification: LCC E 468.9 . D 55 2016 | DDC 973.7dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049991
Jacket Illustration: Regt. Michigan Engineers & Mechanics destroying R. R. track in Atlanta, ruins of the car shed to right hand (photo by George N. Barnard, ca. 1864). Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-stereo-1s01415.
Portions of Chapter Three were previously published in The Genesis of this Little Tablet with My Name: Francis Lieber and his Reasons for Drafting General Orders No. 100, Journal of the Civil War Era (June 2015): 23153. Portions of Chapter Four were previously published in The Sternest Feature of War: The Moral Dilemma of Retaliation and the Limits of Atrocity in the American Civil War, Fides et Historia 48:1 (Winter/Spring 2016): 3260. Both are used with permission.
To Mackenzie and Pearl
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Acknowledgments
What a pleasure it is to give thanks properly now to the family, friends, mentors, colleagues, and institutions that made this book possible.
While completing the archival research necessary for this project, I benefited immensely from expert assistance offered by the staffs of the Missouri History Museum, the Huntington Library, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at The Johns Hopkins University, and the Manuscript Reading Room at the Library of Congress. I am particularly appreciative to have received a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library and a Ridgway Research Grant from the U.S. Army Military History Institute, which provided essential financial support for extended research trips
I am pleased this book found a home at the University of North Carolina Press, and I appreciate all that Mark Simpson-Vos did to shepherd me through the publication process. I owe an especially large debt to Aaron Sheehan-Dean and the second anonymous reviewer of my manuscript. Both treated my work like it was their own, and their thoughtful and thorough suggestions have made this an exceedingly better book.
I had the ridiculously good fortune of learning how to be a historian from the best in the country at the University of Virginia. Peter Onuf offered keen advice and persistent encouragement throughout my time at the University of Virginia, even after our amicable divorce and my drift into the Civil War era. Elizabeth Varons captivating lectures on nineteenth-century southern history helped set in motion that drift. Gary Gallagher gladly accepted me as one of his students, despite his already sizeable cohort of advisees, and since then he has been gracious beyond measure with his support. He is a perceptive and generous critic as well as a model teacher and scholar. Peter, Elizabeth, and Gary are all fiercely committed to the success of their graduate students. I am honored to count myself as one of the many they have trained.
My parents, Hance and Julie Dilbeck, have persistently affirmed me in my calling as a teacher and historian. I consider it a rich blessing to have begun this vocation by first learning from them how to read in a parsonage in Marshall County, Oklahoma. They are my first and finest teachers, who showed me how to live like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in its season and whose leaf never withers. I am grateful for that instruction.
More than six years ago now, my wife, Mackenzie, made a great sacrifice in moving from our home in Oklahoma to Charlottesville, Virginia, a foreign place to us where we knew no one. More often than not, especially early on, we felt Jeff Tweedy was right: our love, our love, our love is all we have. For that, I am thankful. Mackenzie is a faithful partner in success and failure, joy and disappointment. This book is a testament to the strength I find in her love.
Our daughter, Pearl Caroline, arrived in April 2014 mere days before my graduation from the University of Virginia and our familys move back to Oklahoma. Her timing was impeccable! We had longed for her, and she has brought us joy unspeakable. This book is dedicated to Mackenzie and Pearl, in the fond hope that my daughter will inherit her mothers humor and heart.
A More Civil War
Introduction
Responsible to One Another and to God: The Unions Moral Vision of War
On New Years Eve 1863, an anxious George W. Lennard sought blessed assurance of his eternal fate. Lennard began the American Civil War as a private in an Indiana regiment and was eventually commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Fifty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He survived some of the most gruesome fighting of the Western Theater, from Shiloh to Stones River to Missionary Ridge. As another year of war dawned, Lennard confessed in a letter home that he dreaded nothing more than the thought of what awaited him after death. He longed for a clear and well defined hope that all would be well with me in the world to come. You will say, he wrote his wife, why dont you be a Christian? I say, how can a soldier be a Christian? He continued: Read all Christs teaching, and then tell me whether one engaged in maiming and butchering men men made in the express image of God himself can be saved under the Gospel. Clear my mind on this subject and you will do me a world of good. Lennard was still searching for answers when he was killed in May 1864 as he marched toward Atlanta.
George Lennard doubted he could reconcile the gospel of the Prince of Peace with his duties as a soldier, which made him unusual in the Union army. But he was not alone in earnestly contemplating the morality of warfare. Can a soldier be a Christian? Can a self-proclaimed Christian society send more than two million men off to maim and butcher other men? Is killing and destruction acceptable in war if done in service of a sacred cause? Is it possible for a soldier to fight in a just war and himself remain just, or must he inevitably surrender his own righteousness before the brutal demands of war? Can a supposedly civilized people constrain the death and devastation unleashed by their armies? Is it really possible to wage war justly?
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