From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin.(Book review)

Journal of Southern History | February 1, 2008| | Copyright

From Conciliation to Conquest: The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin. By George C. Bradley and Richard L. Dahlen. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 297. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1526-9.)

This book examines the court-martial of Illinois colonel John B. Turchin in the context of the evolution during the Civil War toward, to use Mark Grimsley's term, "hard war" policies (The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 [New York, 1995]). Turchin's army commander, Major General Don ...

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