Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. is distinguished as a historian who provides original and illuminating insights into familiar aspects of the War Between the States. This, his fifth book on the war, is no exception. "It is an actual historical fact," writes Dr. Mitcham, "that the greatest mass murder of African Americans in United States' history took place during the New York Draft Riots of July 1863, which were the greatest riots in American history."...
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