Victims
Subtitle: a true story of the Civil War
By: by Phillip Shaw Paludan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Shelton Laurel Valley (N.C.) -- Massacre, 1863.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Description: In January 1863, in the mountains of North Carolina, Confederate soldiers captured and murdered thirteen prisoners. These suspected Unionist guerrillas were members of a relatively isolated, traditional mountain community; their killers were led by officers more open to the changing currents of the nineteenth century. This book examines that slaughter, known as the Shelton Laurel Massacre, and the events that led up to it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.