Victims : a true story of the Civil War / by Phillip Shaw Paludan.
Material type: TextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1984.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 144 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781572337688
- 1572337680
- Massacres -- North Carolina -- Shelton Laurel Valley
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Prisonniers et prisons
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- HISTORY -- General
- Massacres
- Prisoners of war
- North Carolina -- Shelton Laurel Valley
- United States
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- 1861-1865
- 973.733 22
- F262.M25 P34 1984eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Phillip Paludan has combined the findings of the social sciences with an exercise in la petite histoire to create an intriguing study. From his base point, the massacre of thirteen Unionist mountaineers at Shelton Laurel, North Carolina, the author expands the investigation to embrace larger issues, such as the impact of the Civil War on small communities, the causation and characteristics of guerrilla warfare, and the focus underlying human perversity."--Civil War History". . . the definitive history of the Shelton Laurel Massacre, but more important it is a pathbreaking study of a principal
Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: The Place; Chapter Two: The Officers and the General; Chapter Three: Loyalty and Treason in the Mountains; Chapter Four: The Killing; Chapter Five: Aftermath; Epilogue; Appendix; Index.
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