The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox / Stephen Budiansky.

New York : Viking, c2008.

322 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsim. ; 24 cm.

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.

English

February 25, 2008

Includes bibliographic references (p. [283]-322) and index.