A large part of one particular chapter was dedicated to the killing of black prisoners of war by Confederates, in fact several historical accounts of these events were covered in detail, but only the hint or suggestion that black Union soldiers may have been capable of the same acts. That "if" they did kill Confederate prisoners they were certainly justified to do under the circumstance was the main idea here. Not one account of known events, like Fort Gregg or Fort Blakeley was covered or suggested in relation to the killing of Confederate prisoners, only the Union prisoners and particulary the black Union prisoners were focused on.
Look how she treats the story of Captain Cailloux of the 1st Louisana Native Guards....
"Killed as he led his men in a charge at Port Hudson on May 27, 1863, Cailloux was the first of only a few black officers to die in the war. For all his courage and respectability, Andre Cailloux was in the eyes of the Confederates simply a man who deserved not just death but dishonor for his presumption in taking up arms against a superior race. Despite a truce called to permit the removal of te dead and wounded, rebel sharpshooters prevented Union troops from retrieving the bodies of black soldiers. Cailloux lay on the field until July 8, when Port Hudson surrendered. After forty-one days exposed to the elements, his body could be identified only because of a ring he still wore."
She goes on about Cailloux's funeral and then writes,.."Certainly, his death became a symbol for the northern antislavery cause and particulary for black abolitionist."
Faust left out some very important details about the Native Guard and their particaption at Port Hudson and of the free Blacks of Louisiana and their standing in that State.