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Prisoners of America: War and Democratic Racism

“…22 Despite President Davis' command, many captured black soldiers were never Some whom the fortunes of civil war threw into the hands of the enemy were murdered after they had surrendered; others were placed at work on fortifications, where they were exposed to the fire of the Union army; many were crowded into common jails, and made to toil in the streets like felons, or were sold at public auction. 23 In the months following the Emancipation Proclamation, black Union soldiers first appeared in battle and were sequentially targeted and massacred by the Confederate forces. In the span of two months in 1863, such slaughter occurred at Port Hudson (May 27), Milliken's Bend (June 7), Mound Plantation (June 29), and the Battle of Battery Wagner (July 18).…”