Cover of The bloody shirt

The bloody shirt

by Stephen Budiansky

2008 322 pages eng

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.

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