Just another Anti-Confederate liberal college professor who has as grudge against anything Confederate. His verbal wars with the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Arkansas evidently predicated this book. As the author of a regimental history of a Federal Regiment and a Federal Reenactor, he has collected some essays from other liberal or pro black, pro Federal "authors and/or historians" to advance his agenda of Racist Confederate Troops massacring Black Federal Soldiers and Civilian.When you look at 19th Century History through 21st Century eyes and attempt to judge just to advance your own political agenda you are doing a disservice to your readers. His description of anyone Pro-Confederate or Pro-Southern as "Neo-Confederate" is proof enough for me. I guess this is a new term now used to identify someone who is proud of their Southern and Confederate Herigtate and makes no excuses for it.