War Crimes Against Southern Civilians

By: Walter Brian Cisco

Narrated by: Bill Izard

Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

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 20,000 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 title 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 title 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.

©2007, 2008, 2013, 2016, 2021 Walter Brian Cisco (P)2021 Shotwell Publishing LLC

Man’s Inhumanity Towards Man

This book should be read by every American and every human on the face of the earth. Why? Because it meticulously details events that show that when we reduce our fellow man to being subhuman you get hell on earth.

Unabashed Truth.

Wonderful book containing truths they left out in school, all Americans should read this book, or listen to it.

Certainly War Crimes

I had an entire range of emotions. This is a book that every High School should have in its American history classes. This book is not pro-Rebel, but shines a light on the atrocity of War. Dehumanizing the Defeated,

A truthful account of history.

This book is a a reminder that the Victor writes the history...and many Victor's are liars.

The silence of this topic in history class, what a crime.

This is terrible to hear, mainstream historians say this never happened but this is the 3rd book I've read on the crimes committed by the north and just because the US government didn't document the crimes means it didn't happen, and the first hand accounts don't count is such BS. this was the beginning of the end for US.

The Truth of the villainy of the US Government

This is the often glossed over truth of the evil so many praise as the Union Army. The US Government even today does not want the truth to be widely known. The glossed over version given to the public by documentarians like Ken Burns leave out the fact that murderers like Sherman and Sheridan were working for the chief murderer of them all Abraham Lincoln. I can only say that Lincoln got what he deserved, just too bad Booth did kill him in 1860. I was a Marine and knowing now about the pathetic lying government I served and that exists today, I greatly regret ever wearing the Marine Blue Uniform. My family had a plantation in Tennessee and it’s been passed down that when the Yankees came to our area we hid all our livestock and food in a huge cave. The idiot Yankees never found it. Read this book if you want the truth about how horrible and tyrannical the US Government was… and really still is!