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In this meticulously researched account, Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support or state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them. Sutherland's A Savage Conflict is the first book to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. The Society for Military History, established in 1933, has an international membership of over 2,000 “scholars, soldiers, and citizens” interested in military history. The book has also won the Distinguished Book Prize of the Society of Military History. The Society of Civil War Historians gives the Tom Watson Brown Award annually for the outstanding book looking into causes, conduct and the effects of the Civil War. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Sutherland is a professor of history in the J. – Professor Dan Sutherland has been awarded the Tom Watson Brown Award, a $50,000 book prize given out by the Society of Civil War Historians, in recognition of his innovative work, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerillas in the American Civil War. The cover of A Savage Conflict, winner of two national awards for its innovative look at the role of guerrilla warfare in determining the outcome of the Civil War.įAYETTEVILLE, Ark.
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