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John Bennett Walters, Total War, And The Raid On Randolph, Tennessee, Thomas Lee Anderson
John Bennett Walters, Total War, And The Raid On Randolph, Tennessee, Thomas Lee Anderson
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The regnant interpretation of the American Civil War includes the fact that it evolved into a “total war,” which adumbrated the total wars of the twentieth century. Mark E. Neely, in 1991, published an influential paper calling this interpretation into question for the first time. In the article Neely revealed that the first mention of “total war” in connection with the Civil War was an article written in 1948 by John Bennett Walters about Gen. William T. Sherman and a raid he ordered on Randolph, Tennessee in reprisal for an attempted hijacking of the packet boat Eugene on the Mississippi …