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War Crimes Against Southern Civilians
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by Walter Brian Cisco
Sales Rank: 112742
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: Pelican Publishing Company April 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 158980466X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1589804661
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
-Thomas J. DiLorenzo, www.LewRockwell.com
"blows the lid off the conspiracy of silence about the violent, mass-murdering origins of the American Leviathan state"
Product Description
War crimes against Southern civilians during the Civil War. This is the provocative and untold story of the Union's "hard war" against the people of the Confederacy. Styled the "Black Flag" campaign, this hard war included the shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering of personal property, and even murder of civilians. Author Walter Brian Cisco explores with a passion matched by the force of his arguments how the Union forces, backed by the Lincoln administration, deliberately discarded the civilized tradition of excluding noncombatants from the military action. He moves chronologically through the war, looking at how this brutal mindset determined Union actions across the landscape of the South-the pillage of Fredericksburg, the shelling of Charleston, the sack of Athens, the burning of Atlanta, the destruction of Columbia, the infamous "March to the Sea," to name but a few. Special chapters document the suffering of women and children in prison and the Union abuse of African-Americans. This is a powerful treatment of a controversial topic, one certain to gain the attention of Civil War media and aficionados and to spark heated debate.
Reader Reviews
Mr. Cisco's flawlessly documented expose of Union Army war crimes rips the carefully constructed facade off Lincoln's "Army of Emancipators." Far from being an army of liberators, Union troops burned, raped, ravaged, and terrorized civilians from east to west. The brutality long overshadowed by federally-sponsored propaganda of Andersonville and Fort Pillow is at last revealed by newspaper accounts, letters, and diaries, many from Washington's own National Archives. "We believe in a war of extermination," said Union Brigadier General Lane, whose heroic exploits include the arrest and deaths of wives and teenaged girls whose only crime were blood ties to Confederate guerrillas, the expulsion of tens of thousands of civilians from whole Missouri counties and the complete destruction of their property. General Sherman deliberately turned his back as men pillaged Georgia cities, even allowing them to exhume graves in search of valuables. Free African-Americans as well as southern whites suffered the loss of homes and property, many their lives. The arrival of the northern army of liberation also meant rape and abuse for women of color. Regardless of color or gender, no southerner was spared. Mr. Cisco's scholarly work is a must-read for serious students of the war and professional historians. Politically correct history cannot hide the sins of the past, and a true examination of facts must occur before complete understanding of America's most tragic war can take place. Five stars.
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