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THE BLUE, THE GRAY, AND THE GREEN series editors Stephen Berry Amy Murrell Taylor University of Georgia University of Kentucky advisory board Edward L. Ayers James Marten University of Richmond Marquette University Catherine Clinton Scott Nelson University of Texas at College of William & Mary San Antonio Daniel E. Sutherland J. Matthew Gallman University of Arkansas University of Florida Elizabeth Varon Elizabeth Leonard University of Virginia Colby College The Blue, the Gray, and the Green Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War EDiTED BY BRiAN ALLEN DRAkE The University of Georgia Press Athens and London A different version of chapter 2 previously appeared as “Dying in the Desert” by Megan kate Nelson, The Civil War Monitor, vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 48– 53, 71– 73. Chapter 4 is adapted from Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia by kathryn Shively Meier. Copyright 2013 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www .uncpress.unc .edu. Chapter 5 is adapted from Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition, by Aaron Sachs. Copyright 2013 by Yale University Press. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press. Chapter 8 is adapted from A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South, by Drew Swanson. Copyright 2014 by Yale University Press. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press. © 2015 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www .ugapress .org All rights reserved Set in Berthold Baskerville by Graphic Compostion, inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Most University of Georgia Press titles are available from popular e-book vendors. Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 P 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014955518 iSBN 978-0-8203-4714-1 hardcover iSBN 978-0-8203-4715-8 paperback iSBN 978-0-8203-4775-2 e-book British Library Cataloging- in-Publication Data available CoNTENTS Acknowledgments vii iNTRoDUCTioN. New Fields of Battle: Nature, Environmental History, and the Civil War 1 Brian Allen Drake oNE. Fateful Lightning: The Significance of Weather and Climate to Civil War History 16 Kenneth W. Noe TWo. “The Difficulties and Seductions of the Desert”: Landscapes of War in 1861 New Mexico 34 Megan Kate Nelson THREE. Yancey County Goes to War: A Case Study of People and Nature on Home Front and Battlefield, 1861– 1865 52 Timothy Silver FoUR. “The Man Who Has Nothing to Lose”: Environmental impacts on Civil War Straggling in 1862 Virginia 67 Kathryn Shively Meier FiVE. Stumps in the Wilderness 96 Aaron Sachs Six. “The Strength of the Hills”: Representations of Appalachian Wilderness as Civil War Refuge 113 John C. Inscoe SEVEN. Nature as Friction: integrating Clausewitz into Environmental Histories of the Civil War 144 Lisa M. Brady EiGHT. War is Hell, So Have a Chew: The Persistence of Agroenvironmental ideas in the Civil War Piedmont 163 Drew A. Swanson vi Contents NiNE. Reconstructing the Soil: Emancipation and the Roots of Chemical- Dependent Agriculture in America 191 Timothy Johnson TEN. Walking, Running, and Marching into an Environmental History of the Civil War 209 Mart A. Stewart EPiLoGUE. “Waving the Muddy Shirt” 225 Paul S. Sutter Contributors 237 index 241 ACkNoWLEDGMENTS “Credit where credit is due” is one of the better idioms, and the over- whelming share of any acclaim for The Blue, The Gray, and the Green be- longs to its contributing authors. it has been a great pleasure to edit the work of such insightful scholars, and they have all been kind enough to forgive me for (or at least to ignore) any editorial fumbles on my part. it was also a pleasure to be present at the creation; the book’s chapters began life as papers for the third annual UnCivil Wars conference, held in Athens, Georgia, in october 2011. Thus, many thanks are due Sam Thomas and the T. R. R. Cobb House for hosting the conference sessions and keeping us fed and watered in between. Thanks, as well, to Vince and Barbara Dooley for opening their home to our motley crew for both the conference’s keynote address—delivered with panache by Mark Smith— and its inaugural dinner. The Watson- Brown Foundation and the Univer- sity of Georgia’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts earn a tip of the hat for their financial contributions. The authors and the editor alike are grateful for the intellectual insights of conference commenters James Gie- sen, David Moltke- Hansen, kathy Newfont, and Albert Way, and of two anonymous readers for the University of Georgia Press. Particular thanks are due Paul Sutter for his thoughtful observations at our closing dinner and for his similarly thoughtful conclusion in this volume. John inscoe not only wrote a chapter for The Blue, The Gray, and the Green but also assisted me as an unofficial consultant and guide to the intricacies of editor- hood. Similarly, Mick Gusinde- Duffy has been a dili- gent and affable champion of the manuscript at the press. Finally, as con- ference co-organizer as well as a friend, Stephen W. Berry ii deserves a snappy present- arms for the myriad ways in which he furthered this project. 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