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True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse
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Crime did not take a holiday during the Civil War, far from it. As Tobin Buhk shows in this fast-paced narrative, the war created new opportunities to gain profits from illegal activities, to settle old scores against personal enemies under the cover of fighting the nation's enemies, to pillage, plunder, and murder amid the carnage and destruction that seemed to offer license to legitimize such crimes. Students of the Civil War will find new information in this readable account. --James M. McPherson,Author of Battle Cry of Freedom
• Examines criminal cases during the conflict
• Cases include currency counterfeiting, tyrannical actions of Gen. Benjamin Butler, the murder of Gen. Earl van Dorn, raids by William Quantrill's Bushwhackers, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the horrific prison conditions at Andersonville, the fate of Lincoln the assassination conspirators, and more
• Examines criminal cases during the conflict
• Cases include currency counterfeiting, tyrannical actions of Gen. Benjamin Butler, the murder of Gen. Earl van Dorn, raids by William Quantrill's Bushwhackers, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the horrific prison conditions at Andersonville, the fate of Lincoln the assassination conspirators, and more
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Tobin T. Buhk
Tobin T. Buhk is an English teacher and true crime writer. He began writing true crime after a brief stint as a volunteer in the Kent County Morgue. Tobin has published five books about historical true crime, the most recent being Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: the Scandalous 1916 Plot (published with The History Press).
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Omission of George Todd's role in Quantrill's raids. Could have covered Thomas Legion or Vincent Witcher or Bread Riots in Abingdon and Richmond or Mount Sterling and St Albans. One man's war criminal is another side's war hero.