| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Gregory J. W. Urwin, editor. Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 265. $45.00.
In this compact, well-organized collection of essays (including eight articles published between 1958 and 2000 and three original pieces), editor Gregory J. W. Urwin probes the intersection of war crimes and the complexities of remembrance in the American Civil War. He has assembled a useful set of articles that chronicle Confederate racial violence directed at fugitive slaves and free blacks, the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), and their white officers.	1
Racial atrocities and reprisals, Urwin explains in his introductory essay, resulted from "the merciless quality that racial hatred inspired" during the emancipation process (p. 15). "Confederates not only targeted the United States Colored Troops," he adds, "but also fugitive slaves of all ages and both sexes. Feeling betrayed by the runaways, Rebel troops assumed the role of wronged lovers and took their revenge" (p. 7). In post-September 11 America, Urwin muses, "it remains to be seen if fear, anger, hatred, and a desire for revenge will stampede Americans into embracing the savage excesses that represent the most painful memories of their great Civil War" (p. 12).	. . .

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