Black flag over Dixie racial atrocities and reprisals in the Civil War /
edited by Gregory J.W. Urwin.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2004.
- 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
Warfare, race, and the Civil War in American memory / A Texas cavalry raid: reaction to black soldiers and contrabands / Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do? / The execution of white officers from black units by Confederate forces during the Civil War / 'Shooting niggers Sir': Confederate mistreatment of Union black soldiers at the Battle of Olustee / The Fort Pillow Massacre: an examination of the evidence / 'Remember Fort Pillow!': politics, atrocity propaganda, and the evolution of hard war / 'We cannot treat negroes ... as prisoners of war': racial atrocities and reprisals in Civil War Arkansas / Massacre at Plymouth: April 20, 1864 / The Battle of the Crater: the Civil War's worst massacre / Symbols of freedom and defeat: African American soldiers, white Southerners, and the Christmas insurrection scare of 1865 / 'A very long shadow': race, atrocity, and the American Civil War / Gregory J.W. Urwin -- Anne J. Bailey -- Howard C. Westwood -- James G. Hollandsworth Jr. -- David J. Coles -- Albert Castel -- Derek W. Frisby -- Gregory J.W. Urwin -- Weymouth T. Jordan Jr., Gerald W. Thomas -- Bryce A. Suderow -- Chad L. Williams -- Mark Grimsley.
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