War Crimes Against Southern Civilians 1st Edition by Walter Brian Cisco ISBN 194766056X 9781947660564

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ISBN 10: 194766056X
ISBN 13: 9781947660564
Author: Walter Brian Cisco 

Walter Brian Cisco’s War Crimes Against Southern Civilians is the first book-length survey of the Union’s “hard war” against the people of the Confederacy–one that included the shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering, and murder.

In a series of compelling chapters, Cisco chronicles the St. Louis massacre, where Federal authorities proceeded to impose a reign of terror and dictatorship in Missouri. He tells of the events leading to, and the suffering caused by, the Federal decree that forced twenty thousand Missouri civilians into exile. The arrests of civilians, the suppression of civil liberties, theft, and murder to “restore the union” in Tennessee are also examined.

Women and children were robbed, brutalized, and left homeless in Sherman’s infamous raid through Georgia. In South Carolina, homes, farms, churches, and whole towns disappeared in flames. Civilians received no mercy at the hands of the Union invaders.

Thoroughly researched from sources including letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts of the time, Walter Brian Cisco’s exhaustive book notably pays careful attention to the suffering of African-American victims of Federal brutality, revealing that wherever Federal troops encountered Southern blacks, whether free or slave, they were robbed, brutalized, belittled, kidnapped, threatened, tortured, and sometimes raped or killed by their blue-clad “liberators.”

Apologists for Lincoln’s hard war continue to downplay the suffering endured and the damage done, blame the victims, or call some of the above incidents “accidents” or “mistakes.” Many also cling to the Lincolnian myth that only by the most horrendous of wars could the slaves be freed, ignoring the fact that the rest of the Western world managed to bring an end to the institution without bloodshed. This book serves to set the record straight and to show that the war on Southern civilians was not justified, despite the convictions by many that such a war was necessary to save the union.

Walter Brian Cisco’s first book, States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, a biography of the little-known general, was a 1992 selection of the History Book Club. He is also the author of Taking a Stand: Portraits from the Southern Secession Movement, Henry Timrod: A Biography, and Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman, considered the definitive biography of Hampton and the 2006 winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award. He lives in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

“Of all the enormities committed by Americans in the nineteenth century–including slavery and the Indian wars–the worst was the invasion of the South, which destroyed some twenty billion dollars of private and public property and resulted in the deaths of some two million people, most of whom were civilians–both white and black.”

War Crimes Against Southern Civilians 1st Table of contents:

• Introduction: Defining War Crimes

  • What Constitutes War Crimes?
  • The Legal and Moral Framework of War Crimes
  • The Role of Civilians in Wartime

• Historical Context

  • Overview of the American Civil War
  • The Southern States and the Impact of the War
  • Civilian Populations and the Brutality of Warfare

• Civilian Suffering During the Civil War

  • Destruction of Southern Infrastructure
  • The Economic Devastation of the South
  • Displacement of Civilian Populations

• The Impact of Blockades and Occupations

  • The Union Naval Blockade and Starvation
  • Occupation of Southern Cities by Union Forces
  • The Suffering of Non-Combatants

• Union Army Actions: Civilian Atrocities

  • The Conduct of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea
  • The Burning of Southern Towns and Cities
  • Looting, Rape, and Other Civilian Abuses

• Confederate Army Actions and Civilian Attacks

  • Confederate Raids on Northern Civilian Settlements
  • Civilian Targeting and Reprisals
  • The Question of Civilian Protections in Wartime

• Notable Incidents of War Crimes

  • The Destruction of Atlanta
  • The Massacre at Fort Pillow
  • The Sack of Columbia

• Civilians as Victims of Military Strategy

  • The Role of Civilian Suffering in War Strategy
  • Total War and Its Impact on Southern Society
  • Psychological and Physical Trauma Inflicted on Non-Combatants

• War Crimes and Legal Accountability

  • The Evolution of War Crimes Law
  • Post-War Accountability and Reconstruction
  • Efforts to Address Civilian Suffering in War Crimes Trials

• Legacy and Historical Reflection

  • The Long-Term Effects on Southern Civilians
  • The Impact on Reconstruction and Southern Identity
  • Modern Lessons from Civilian Suffering in War

• Conclusion: Lessons from the Past

  • The Ethics of Warfare and Civilian Protections
  • The Role of Modern International Law in Preventing Civilian Atrocities
  • Reflections on the American Civil War’s Legacy of Civilian Destruction

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