War crimes against Southern civilians by Walter Brian Cisco

"This is the provocative and untold story of the Union's "hard war" against the people of the Confederacy. Styled the "Black Flag" campaign, this hard war included the shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering of personal property, and even murder of civilians. Author Walter Brian Cisco explores with a passion matched by the force of his arguments how the Union forces, backed by the Lincoln administration, deliberately discarded the civilized tradition of excluding noncombatants from the military action." - Editorial Reviews