The price of freedom: the battle of Saltville and the massacre of the Fifth United States Colored Cavalry

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dc.contributor.authorMays, Thomas D.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-09T15:45:03Zen
dc.date.available2022-05-09T15:45:03Zen
dc.date.issued1992en
dc.description.abstractThe battle of Saltville Va. (Oct. 3, 1864) and the subsequent massacre of wounded prisoners from the 5th United States Colored Cavalry has been a neglected and misinterpreted topic. The narrative follows the Federal advance from Kentucky to southwest Virginia including Confederate delaying actions. The work studies the Southern victory and the massacre in detail and introduces new evidence that clarifies the extent of the carnage. The study rates Saltville as the worst battlefield atrocity of the American Civil War.en
dc.description.degreeM.A.en
dc.format.extentv, 96 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/109918en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 26567207en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1992.M397en
dc.subject.lcshSaltville (Va), Battle of, 1864en
dc.subject.lcshUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African Americanen
dc.titleThe price of freedom: the battle of Saltville and the massacre of the Fifth United States Colored Cavalryen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en

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