Bibliograph

The bloody shirt, terror after Appomattox, Stephen Budiansky

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Label

The bloody shirt, terror after Appomattox, Stephen Budiansky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bloody shirt

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

438101216

Responsibility statement

Stephen Budiansky

Sub title

terror after Appomattox

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

Table Of 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."

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