Remembering the Battle of the Crater : war as murder /
The battle of the Crater is known as one of the Civil War's bloodiest struggles -- a Union loss with combined casualties of 5,000, many of whom were members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) under Union Brigadier General Edward Ferrero. The battle was a violent clash of forces as Confe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
2012.
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Colección: | New directions in southern history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The battle: "until every Negro has been slaughtered"
- The lost cause: maintaining the antebellum hierarchy
- Virginia's reconstruction: William Mahone, "hero of the Crater"
- Reinforcing the status quo: reenactment and Jim Crow
- Whites only: the ascendancy of an interpretation
- Competing memories: Civil War and civil rights
- Moving forward: integrating a Black counter-memory.