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1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Paperback edition 2013. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index. |
| Contents |
Emancipation and Black soldiers -- The southern perspective -- First encounters -- Milliken's Bend -- Fort Wagner -- Olustee -- The Yazoo to Suffolk -- Fort Pillow -- The Camden expedition -- The Plymouth pogrom -- Brice's Cross Roads -- The Petersburg Mine -- Mercy and murder -- Saltville -- Murder in the east -- Murder in the west -- Mobile and Selma. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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Murder -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Murder. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Murder -- Confederate States of America -- History.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Atrocities.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burkhardt, George S. Confederate rage, Yankee wrath : no quarter in the Civil War. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007] xiii, 338 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm 9780809332076 (DLC) 2006025663 (OCoLC)71004078 |
| ISBN |
9780809389544 (electronic book) |
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0809389541 (electronic book) |
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0809327430 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780809327430 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0809332078 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780809332076 |
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