Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at Louisiana State University. His books include The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It and Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia.
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At least three-quarters of a million lives were lost during the American Civil War. Given its seemingly indiscriminate mass destruction, this conflict is often thought of as the first 'total war.' But Aaron Sheehan-Dean argues for another interpretation. ... SEE MORE