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Book

True crime in the Civil War : cases of murder, treason, counterfeiting, massacre, plunder, & abuse

Call Number

  • 973.71 B9315 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, c2012.

Physical Description

viii, 312 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction the criminal state of the union
  • Inside Castle Thunder, notorious Richmond prison
  • Sam Upham's counterfeiting scheme
  • Benjamin Butler, Beast of New Orleans
  • The sack of Athens and the court-martial of Col. J. B. Turchin
  • Feuding generals : the murder of Bull Nelson and the Walker-Marmaduke Duel
  • The Faulkner outrage and Detroit's draft riot
  • The slaying of the Beckham family
  • The Lawrence Massacre and the not-so-civil war of Quantrill, Anderson, and the James Brothers
  • The murder of Gen. Earl van Dorn
  • No quarter : Bedford Forrest and the Fort Pillow Massacre
  • Manhattan burning : the rebel arson plot
  • Sue Mundy, terror of Kentucky
  • The trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators
  • Fifty-three counts of murder : Champ Ferguson's private war
  • Murder or misadventure? : Temperance Neely kills her former slave
  • The war crimes trial of Andersonville's controversial commandant.

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