Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath No Quarter in the Civil War

Burkhardt, George S

ISBN 10: 0809327430 / ISBN 13: 9780809327430

Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 2007

About this Item

Previous owner has address label and written copyright date 2007" inside on ffep. They had also taped jacket to inside boards, I removed the jacket and have placed the Jacket in a NEW removable Brodart/mylar sleeve for great presentation and preservation. Else clean book. Please examine images and ask any questions you may have, Thanks for looking! ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 384 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath No Quarter in the Civil War
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809327430
• ISBN 13: 9780809327430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This provocative new 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 shows subsequent retaliation by black soldiers and further escalation by the Confederates, including the execution of some captured white Federal soldiers, those proscribed as cavalry raiders, foragers, or house-burners, and even some captured in traditional battles. 
            Further disproving the notion of Confederates as victims who were merely trying to defend their homes, Burkhardt explores the motivations behind the soldiers’ actions and shows the Confederates’ rage at the sight of former slaves―still considered property, not men―fighting them as equals on the battlefield.
Burkhardt’s narrative approach recovers important dimensions of the war that until now have not been fully explored by historians, effectively describing the systemic pattern that pushed the conflict toward a black flag, take-no-prisoners struggle.

About the Author

George S. Burkhardt, a former news reporter and writer, was the editor, publisher, and owner of California’s smallest daily newspaper, the Corning Daily Observer. He has spent more than twenty years researching and writing about the atrocities that occurred during the Civil War.