Black flag over Dixie : racial atrocities and reprisals in the Civil War / edited by Gregory J.W. Urwin.
Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War highlights the central role that race played in the Civil War by examining some of the ugliest incidents that played out on its battlefields. Challenging the American public's perception of the Civil War as a chivalrous fam...
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Table of Contents:
- Warfare, race, and the Civil War in American memory / Gregory J.W. Urwin
- A Texas cavalry raid: reaction to black soldiers and contrabands / Anne J. Bailey
- Captive black Union soldiers in Charleston: what to do? / Howard C. Westwood
- The execution of white officers from black units by Confederate forces during the Civil War / James G. Hollandsworth Jr.
- 'Shooting niggers Sir': Confederate mistreatment of Union black soldiers at the Battle of Olustee / David J. Coles
- The Fort Pillow Massacre: an examination of the evidence / Albert Castel
- 'Remember Fort Pillow!': politics, atrocity propaganda, and the evolution of hard war / Derek W. Frisby
- 'We cannot treat negroes ... as prisoners of war': racial atrocities and reprisals in Civil War Arkansas / Gregory J.W. Urwin
- Massacre at Plymouth: April 20, 1864 / Weymouth T. Jordan Jr., Gerald W. Thomas
- The Battle of the Crater: the Civil War's worst massacre / Bryce A. Suderow
- Symbols of freedom and defeat: African American soldiers, white Southerners, and the Christmas insurrection scare of 1865 / Chad L. Williams
- 'A very long shadow': race, atrocity, and the American Civil War / Mark Grimsley.