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
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
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Paperback edition 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index
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