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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452776403321

Autore

Burkhardt George S. <1927->

Titolo

Confederate rage, Yankee wrath : no quarter in the Civil War / / George S. Burkhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-8093-2743-0

0-8093-8954-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

Murder - United States - History - 19th century

Murder - Confederate States of America - History

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Atrocities

United States Race relations History 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paperback edition 2013.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Emancipation and Black Soldiers; 2. The Southern Perspective; 3. First Encounters; 4. Milliken's Bend; 5. Fort Wagner; 6. Olustee; 7. The Yazoo to Suffolk; 8. Fort Pillow; 9. The Camden Expedition; Gallery of Illustrations; 10. The Plymouth Pogrom; 11. Brice's Cross Roads; 12. The Petersburg Mine; 13. Mercy and Murder; 14. Saltville; 15. Murder in the East; 16. Murder in the West; 17. Mobile and Selma; Epilogue; Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography

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Sommario/riassunto

This provocative study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War-killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and



random events, this work examines each as part of a ruthless but standard practice.Author George S. Burkhardt details a fascinating case that the Confederates followed a consistent pattern of murder against the black soldiers who served in Northern armies after Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. He s