title: Flora and Fauna of the Civil War: An Environmental Reference Guide
author:  Kelby Ouchley 
description: <span>Few [Civil War] works will reflect such labor and love...[it] provides engaging environmental, economic, social, and cultural insights into the lives of the soldiers...Highly recommended.</span> --P.D. Thomas, Wichita State Univ.; Choice Reviews Online<br /><br />Falling somewhere between a reference text and a collection of thoroughly annotated personal anecdotes, this book combines dual disciplines to form a new study of environmental history..Still, his text is filled with environmental lessons. --<i>Tennessee Libraries 61:2,2011</i><br /><br /><span>"...Kelby Ouchley's <i>Flora and Fauna of the Civil War</i> is a welcome addition to the growing field of Civil War environmental studies. It will be a useful source for scholars interested in the complex and often contradictory relationships between humans and nature in wartime."</span><br /> -<span>Journal of <i>Environmental History, </i>July 2011</span><br /><br /><span>I am encouraged when the occasional fresh look at the war comes along...Yes, I am recommending, very strongly, a reference guide, one that is thorough, witty, and full of insights from a fresh perspective on the effect of environment on soldiers and the effect of soldiers on environment.<span> </span>--<i>Baton Rouge Advocate</i>, August 2011</span><br /><br /><span>In an unusual blend of botany, history, and humanity, Kelby Ouchley has produced a fascinating, illuminating, and historically accurate account of the Civil War, the people who were directly or indirectly involved, and the ultimate environmental aftermath.</span><br /> <span>--<i>Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas</i>, August 2011</span><span></span>
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  ­Flora
  and­­Fauna
  of the
  Civil
  War
  An EnvironmEntAl 
  rEfErEncE GuidE
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  K e l by  o u c h l ey
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  louisiana state university pr ess
  Baton rouge
  
  Published by Louisiana State University Press
  Copyright © 2010 by Louisiana State University Press
  All rights reserved
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  First printing
  Designer: Laura Roubique Gleason
  Typeface: Arno Pro
  Printer: McNaughton & Gunn, Inc.
  Binder: John H. Dekker and Sons
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Ouchley, Kelby, 1951–
    Flora and fauna of the Civil War : an environmental reference guide / Kelby Ouchley.
         p. cm.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 978-0-8071-3688-1 (cloth : alk. paper)  1. United States—History—Civil War, 
  1861–1865—Environmental aspects.  2. Ecology—United States—History—19th 
  century.  3. Natural history—Middle Atlantic States.  4. Natural history—Southern 
  States.  5. Animals—M