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The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox
- Title
- The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox / Stephen Budiansky.
- Author
- Budiansky, Stephen.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 322 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsim.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.
- Subjects
- Violence > United States > History > 19th century
- African Americans > History > 1863-1877
- United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918
- United States > Race relations > History > 19th century
- Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945
- Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Social aspects
- African Americans > Crimes against > History > 19th century
- United States > History > 1865-1898
- Racism > United States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-322) and index.
- Contents
- "I thought the South wanted it to end there" -- "The war still exists" -- "The half has not been told you" -- "Plain honest convictions of a soldier" -- "Vote the Negro down or knock him down" -- "The passion-stirring event at Hamburg" -- "Greed, the father of slaves, was too much for us".
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-444
- ISBN
- 9780670018406
- 0670018406
- LCCN
- 2008270568
- OCLC
- 173350931
- Author
- Budiansky, Stephen.
- Title
- The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox / Stephen Budiansky.
- Imprint
- New York : Viking, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-322) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-444