Remembering the Battle of the Crater war as murder - Levin, Kevin M. 1969- (Lexington, Kentucky University Press of Kentucky, 2012)
The battle: "until every Negro has been slaughtered" -- The lost cause: maintaining the antebellum hierarchy -- Virginia?s reconstruction: William Mahone, "hero of the Crater" -- Reinforcing the status quo: reenactment and Jim Crow -- Whites only: the ascendancy of an interpretation -- Competing memories: Civil War and civil rights -- Moving forward: integrating a Black counter-memory.
Keywords: United States. -- Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century; United States. -- Colored Troops; Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864.; African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century; Collective memory; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American