Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War
“Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrathskillfully shows how memories of black massacres were buried as part of the reconciliation movement between North and South. Burkhardt offers a gripping narrative filled with graphic first-hand accounts that convey the brutality suffered by black soldiers at the hands of the Confederates and their own white comrades. He compels the reader to think deeply about how Americans have remembered or forgotten the grisly aspects of the Civil War.”—Peter S. Carmichael, author ofThe Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion “This book needed to be written. The atrocities that Burkhardt writes about happened, and happened with some frequency, but until now references to individual accounts in memoirs, letters, and official documents were scattered across the huge landscape of Civil War history.”—James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., author ofThe Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War“This book reads with all the intensity and relentlessness of a hurricane: It is a horrifying reality, and yet far too interesting, compelling and edifying to ignore.”   —The Free Lance-Star