Confederate rage, Yankee wrath : no quarter in the Civil War /
Burkhardt, George S., 1927-
Confederate rage, Yankee wrath : no quarter in the Civil War / George S. Burkhardt. - 1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations, maps
Paperback edition 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index.
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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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
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
English.
9780809389544 (electronic bk.) 0809389541 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
1800-1899
Murder--History--United States--19th century.
Murder--History.--Confederate States of America
Meurtre--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Meurtre--Histoire.--États confédérés d'Amérique
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
Atrocities.
Military campaigns.
Murder.
Prisoners of war.
Race relations.
United States--History--Atrocities.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
États-Unis--Relations raciales--Histoire--19e siècle.
États-Unis--Histoire--Prisonniers et prisons.--1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
États-Unis--Histoire--Campagnes et batailles.--1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
United States.
United States--Confederate States of America.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
E468.9 / .B89 2007eb
973.7
Confederate rage, Yankee wrath : no quarter in the Civil War / George S. Burkhardt. - 1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations, maps
Paperback edition 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-329) and index.
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.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
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
English.
9780809389544 (electronic bk.) 0809389541 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
1800-1899
Murder--History--United States--19th century.
Murder--History.--Confederate States of America
Meurtre--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Meurtre--Histoire.--États confédérés d'Amérique
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
Atrocities.
Military campaigns.
Murder.
Prisoners of war.
Race relations.
United States--History--Atrocities.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Campaigns.--Civil War, 1861-1865
États-Unis--Relations raciales--Histoire--19e siècle.
États-Unis--Histoire--Prisonniers et prisons.--1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
États-Unis--Histoire--Campagnes et batailles.--1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
United States.
United States--Confederate States of America.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
E468.9 / .B89 2007eb
973.7