The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox /
Stephen Budiansky.
- New York : Viking, c2008.
- 322 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-322) and index.
A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.