Moral Bushwhacking and Political Quantrellism: Thomas Ewing Jr. and the Clamor of Guerrilla Politics.

The article discusses the intersection of military command and civilian politics during the American Civil War by examining the polemical tenure of Union Army General Thomas Ewing Jr. Topics include Ewing's issuance of General Orders No. 13 that banished civilians from Missouri in 1863 as a tactic to keep guerrillas from relying on countryside farms for necessities, how the press covered Ewing's policy, and the history of the fraught relationship between U.S. military and civilian authority.