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Victims : a true story of the Civil War / by Phillip Shaw Paludan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paludan, Phillip Shaw, 1938-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massacres--North Carolina--Shelton Laurel Valley.
- Massacres.
- Shelton Laurel Valley Massacre, Shelton Laurel Valley, N.C., 1863.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 144 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Phillip Paludan has combined the findings of the social sciences with an exercise in la petite histoire to create an intriguing study. From his base point, the massacre of thirteen Unionist mountaineers at Shelton Laurel, North Carolina, the author expands the investigation to embrace larger issues, such as the impact of the Civil War on small communities, the causation and characteristics of guerrilla warfare, and the focus underlying human perversity."" -Civil War History"". . . the definitive history of the Shelton Laurel Massacre, but more important it is a pathbreaking study of a p
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: The Place; Chapter Two: The Officers and the General; Chapter Three: Loyalty and Treason in the Mountains; Chapter Four: The Killing; Chapter Five: Aftermath; Epilogue; Appendix; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582935
- 9781572333253
- 1572333251
- 9781572339033
- 1572339039
- 9781280487705
- 1280487704
- 9781572337688
- 1572337680
- OCLC:
- 793208451
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