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    DEVASTATION

    Mar 26, 2019 4 minutes
    Interview conducted by Senior Editor Sarah Richardson

    JOAN E. CASHIN penned a biography of Varina Howell Davis in 2006. During that research and other projects, she documented the devastation of the Southern landscape. The result is the Ohio State University historian’s most recent work, War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War, which explores the conduct of both Union and Confederate armies and the impact on local civilians. Cashin discovered intense struggles over food, timber, and farm resources—a Civil War more marked by early scarcity and devastation than commonly remembered.

    CWT: Did Federals and Confederates treat civilians differently?

    Both armies assumed

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