Cultural Issues: War Scorched-earth policy
Description
This refers specifically to the events describing the destruction of Southern plantations, cities, railroads, etc., by Union forces during the Civil War. Frequently the narratives associate these actions directly with "Sherman," a hated name in Faulkner's South.
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Aerial combat
- American Revolution
- As educational
- As metaphor
- Atrocity
- Bivouac fires
- Bombing
- Campaign
- Capture
- Casualties of war
- Civil War
- Civil War consequences
- Confederate Army
- Cost of war
- Death
- Defeat
- Demotion
- Deployment
- Deprivation
- Desertion
- Destruction
- Displacement
- Draft
- Draft evasion / Draft dodging
- Fog of War
- Glorification
- Going to war
- Grand Army of the Republic / G.A.R.
- Homefront
- Indian / Native American wars
- Insubordination
- Irregular troop
- Jacobite Rebellion
- Korean War
- Mercenary
- Mexican
- Military awards
- Military rank of general
- Military reassignment
- Military service
- Naval warfare
- Noncombatant
- On homefront
- Patriotism
- Peace
- Pillage
- Play at War
- Plunder
- Prisoner
- Profiting from war
- Psychological effects
- Reconstruction
- Recuperation
- Red Cross
- Refuge
- Refugee
- Retreat
- Return
- Return from war
- Return to war
- Revenge
- Royal Air Force
- Rules of engagement
- Sabotage
- Spanish American War
- Spoils
- Stolen valor
- Strategy
- Surrender
- Trenches
- U.S. Army
- Union Army
- Unity
- Veterans
- Violence against civilians
- War of 1812
- Women
- World War I
- World War II
- Wound
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: War›Displacement | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Racial
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman | War›Destruction | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Masculine woman | War›Plunder | War›Scorched-earth policy
Relationships: Interspecies›Woman-horse
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Year›Christmas
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Gender›War | War›Defeat | War›Homefront | War›Scorched-earth policy | War›Women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Men | Absence/Loss›War | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Mother-daughter
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Handwriting | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Body | Gender›Clothing | Gender›Masculinity | Identity, Personal›Soldier | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Death | War›Scorched-earth policy
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Institutional›Military | Romantic›Fiance
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Scorched-earth policy
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Burning a town
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›North vs South | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Cultural Issues: War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Recurring Tropes›Endurance | Values›Durability
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Battle of Jefferson
Actions: Communication›Letter | Military›Destruction of enemy property | Physical›Burning
Cultural Issues: War›Destruction | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Loss of object | Texts›Civic records | Texts›Military communications
Cultural Issues: History›Southern secession | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›War | Morals›Right
Cultural Issues: War›Confederate Army | War›Scorched-earth policy
Aesthetics: Intertextuality›Faulkner text
Environment: Atmospheric›Dust | Time of Day›Night
Cultural Issues: Race›Stereotype: smell | Slavery›Self-emancipation | War›Destruction | War›Displacement | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Time›Frozen / Static
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Cross dressing | Gender›Masculine woman | War›Destruction | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Chaos
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Gender›Masculine woman | War›Plunder | War›Scorched-earth policy
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Memory›Remembering
Relationships: Interspecies›Woman-horse