Strategy of Conciliation The term “hard war” was popularized by the historian Mark Grimsley in The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865 (1995); it was not a term popular during the Civil War. In fact, early in the war, the emphasis was on hard war’s opposite: conciliation. Read more about: Hard War in Virginia during the Civil War
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