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Category:Massacres of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Camp Jackson affair. G. Gallinas massacre ...

Fort Pillow Massacre | Definition, Significance, & Facts - Britannica

Fort Pillow Massacre, Confederate slaughter of African American Federal troops stationed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, on April 12, 1864, during the American ...

The Civil War's Lost Massacre | Season 22 | Episode 1 - PBS

The Civil War's Lost Massacre ... Season 22 Episode 1 | 55m 23s | Video has closed captioning. ... Originally a supply depot for Union forces in ...

Fort Pillow Massacre: April 12, 1864 (The worst atrocity of the civil war)

Fort Pillow Massacre: April 12, 1864 (The worst atrocity of the civil war) ... On the morning of April 12, Forrest's force, estimated at 1,500 to ...

Trigger Events of the Civil War | American Battlefield Trust

Violence existed in the territory as early as 1855 but the Sack of Lawrence and the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre launched a guerilla war between pro-slavery and ...

Working Women and Sexual Justice in the American Civil War

By 1865, more than four hundred Union soldiers had been court-martialed for sexual crimes against white and black women and girls.

Fort Pillow Massacre: Facts, Deaths & Significance | HISTORY

The Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee on April 12, 1864, in which some 300 African American soldiers were killed, was one of the most controversial events of ...

Massacre at Ross's Landing (U.S. National Park Service)

The Feb. 14, 1864 Massacre Reported. In March 1864, the New Orleans Times-Democrat newspaper published a detailed account of a U.S. Civil War massacre involving ...

Civil War Casualties | American Battlefield Trust

Union dead after the Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Photo by Alexander Gardner. Library of Congress. Also offered in: Español.

Civilization and Savagery in the American Civil War - jstor

Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War (Carbondale: Southern. Illinois University Press, 2004); George S. Burkhardt, Confederate Rage ...

Haunted by Atrocity, Civil War Prisons in American Memory

As the first analysis of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a detailed study of how generations of ...

Category:American Civil War crimes - Wikipedia

- · Confederate war crimes (2 C, 3 P) · Union war crimes (14 P) ...

War Materials: Armies, Civilians, and the Struggle for Resources ...

In this book project, Joan Cashin disagrees with prevailing scholarship, arguing that the Civil War was from the beginning a total war.

The Civil War By the Numbers | American Experience - PBS

American Coup: Wilmington 1898. The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d'état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists ...

Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War

In his chapters, the author examines the war's most infamous massacre, the one Nathan Bedford Forrest's men committed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee; perhaps the ...

Violence of the Civil War in Comparative Perspective

The American conflict was one of a number of national struggles in the mid-19th century. Some of these—the wars for Italian and German ...

Treatment of prisoners of war during the American Civil War

Learn what military prisoners experienced during the American Civil War, with a focus on the inmates of Camp Sumter, in Andersonville, Georgia.

Atrocities, Retribution, and Laws (Chapter 12)

... Confederate atrocities against African American soldiers. No ... war to limit the degree of atrocity occasioned by the Civil War. In ...

9 Events That Led to the Civil War | HISTORY

The Compromise of 1850 · The Fugitive Slave Act · 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Is Published · The Kansas‑Nebraska Act · The Pottawatomie Massacre · The Dred ...

Henry Wirz was the only person tried for war crimes in the Civil War

Even among those convicted, Wirz did not stand alone for the atrocities of Andersonville. James Duncan, who worked in the quartermaster's office at ...