With Malice Toward Some

" ... The provost marshal's records that cover most of the period of 1864-65. The records are a day-by-day account of arrests and imprisonments and include whites, blacks, Union soldiers and captured Confederates ... the Vicksburg Daily Herald, often substantiates incidents and adds details. Other sources of information include reports from the Official Records of the War of Rebellion ... Stories in the appendix have appeared previously on the pages of the Vicksburg Evening Post"--Foreword