Your book is insightful, thorough, and well written. He delved into post-massacre reports produced by Congress and the U.S. military, as well as verbatim testimonies recorded by the Freedmen's Bureau of more than 200 eyewitnesses. The first half of the book deals well with the complicated social, economic and political context that led to the initial confrontation on the Bayou Bridge. The second half of the book explores the violence in chronological detail and examines its consequences with an eye to political repercussions. Stephen Ash's book is a short read, just 196 pages of text, followed by 79 pages of notes, bibliography and index. I recommend A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War to Civil War buffs or any reader interested in a long-term perspective on the racial cauldron that is American history. 2016 marks the sesquicentennial of the Memphis pogrom. And Karr was