Remembering the Battle of the Crater
Subtitle: war as murder
By: Kevin M. Levin
Series: New directions in Southern history
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington, Kentucky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780813136103; 9780813136400; 9780813140414
Subjects: Collective memory; United States; African American Participation; African American soldiers; Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864; United States. Army; United States. Colored Troops; African American troops; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The battle: "until every Negro has been slaughtered"; title: The lost cause: maintaining the antebellum hierarchy; title: Virginia's reconstruction: William Mahone, "hero of the Crater"; title: Reinforcing the status quo: reenactment and Jim Crow; title: Whites only: the ascendancy of an interpretation; title: Competing memories: Civil War and civil rights; title: Moving forward: integrating a Black counter-memory.