TY - BOOK AU - Burkhardt,George S. TI - Confederate rage, Yankee wrath: no quarter in the Civil War SN - 9780809389544 AV - E468.9 .B89 2007eb U1 - 973.7 22 PY - 2007///] CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Murder KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Confederate States of America KW - Meurtre KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - États confédérés d'Amérique KW - HISTORY KW - State & Local KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Atrocities KW - fast KW - Military campaigns KW - Prisoners of war KW - Race relations KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Prisoners and prisons KW - Campaigns KW - Relations raciales KW - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) KW - Prisonniers et prisons KW - Campagnes et batailles KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=643944 ER -