Article Title

The Dogs of War: 1861

Authors

John M. McCardell

Abstract

Re-examining Southern Commitment to War

“The dogs of war," writes Emory Thomas in this provocative little book (a “nonfiction novella," he calls it, “Clio laconic"), “once loosed, seldom go where we want them to. Once slipped, they run wild" (92). Thomas is, of course, a prolific schola....