The Last Battleground (eBook)

The Civil War Comes to North Carolina

Philip Gerard (Autor)

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2019
376 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4957-3 (ISBN)

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To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman officers and poor privates. In the state's complex loyalties, its sprawling and diverse geography, and its dual role as a home front and a battlefield, North Carolina embodies the essence of the whole epic struggle in all its terrible glory.Philip Gerard presents this dramatic convergence of events through the stories of the individuals who endured them--reporting the war as if it were happening in the present rather than with settled hindsight--to capture the dreadful suspense of lives caught up in a conflict whose ending had not yet been written. As Gerard reveals, whatever the grand political causes for war, whatever great battles decided its outcome, and however abstract it might seem to readers a century and a half later, the war was always personal.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 27 halftones, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: 26th North Carolina Band • Abraham Galloway • Adm. David D. Porter, USN • Albert Richardson of New York Tribune • Alexander Stephens and cornerstone speech • band music of the Civil War • baseball in the 1860s • Basil Boggs, Samuel Weaver, and burial of Union dead at Gettysburg • Battle of Averasboro • Battle of Bentonville • Battle of Forks Road • Battle of Gettysburg dead • Battle of New Bern • Battle of the Crater at Petersburg • Battle of Town Creek • Benjamin F. Booth • blockade runners • Brig,. Gen. Alfred Howe Terry, USA • Brig. Gen. N. Martin Curtis, USA • Burgwin-Wright house hospital • Capt. W.H., Doherty, USA, and prosecution of Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA • chang and eng bunker • Chief Yonaguska of eastern Band of Cherokee • Chimborazo Hospital • Christopher Wren Bunker • Civil war battles on North Carolina coast • Civil War equipment • civil war medicine • Civil War spies • colorful regimental names in the Civil War • Col. William Henry Asbury Speer • Col. William Lamb, CSA • Confederate atrocities • conscription in the Civil War • conscription of Lumbee Indians in the Civil War • CSS Albemarle • desertion in the Civil War • disease in the Civil War • “Dixie” • Edward W. Kinsley and recruitment of African American soldier in the Civil War • fall of Wilmington • Fort Anderson • Fort Fisher in the Civil War • Francis Marion and Martha Poteet marriage • funeral and mourning rituals in the Civil War • Gen. Edward Augustus Wild, USA • General Ulysses S. Grant, USA • Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA, and hangings at Kinston, NC • Gen. George Stoneman’s raid in North Carolina. “When This Cruel War Is Over (Weeping Sad and Lonely)” • Gen. John G. Foster, USA • Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CSA • Gen. Leonidas Polk, CSA • Gen. Robert F. Hoke, CSA • Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, USA • Gilbert Elliott, shipbuilder • Heroes of America • Jacob Nathaniel Raymer, war correspondent • James Johnston Pettigrew • John • John D. Bellamy mansion • John Newland Maffitt • John W. Woodfin • Joseph Morgan • Joseph T. Foy at Poplar Grove Plantation • Judge Thomas Ruffin and slave law • Julius Leinbach and Moravian musicians • ladies memorial societies 1860s • Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, USA. Pvt. William A. Day, CSA • Lt. John Astoogatogeh of Thomas’ Legion • Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, USA • Maj, Gen. Johnson Hagood, CSA • Maj. Gen. William H.C. Whiting, CSA • Mary Ann Foy at Poplar Grove Plantation • medical training in the Civil War • Mother Mary Madeline Tobin • musical instruments in the Civil War • music of the 1860s • Nancy and James Bennitt • newspapers in the Civil War • Nicholas Washington Woodfin and slaves • North Carolina colleges and universities in the Civil War • Patrick Morgan and the Field of Lost Shoes • Poplar Grove Plantation • Quakers in North Carolina 1860s • recruitment of African American troops in the Civil War • religion in the Civil War • Rev. Alexander Davis Betts • Rose O’Neal Greenhow • Rose O’Neal Greenhow, spy • Salisbury prison • Samuel A’Court Ashe • Sarah Jane Burney Love, wife of William Holland Thomas • scalping in the Civil War • Shelton Laurel massacre • Sherman’s Final March • Sister Gerrard Ryan • Sisters of Mercy on the battlefield • Stephen Decatur Bunker • Stockard family in the Civil War • The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in the Civil War • The Civil War • The Civil War in North Carolina • the destruction of the Fayetteville Arsenal • the Dix-Hill Cartel • the Home Guard in North Carolina • the slave trade in North Carolina • the surrender at Bennett Place • Thomas Fanning Wood • Thomas, Walter, and Rufus Lenoir • Underg • Unionists in North Carolina • Union occupation of New Bern • United States Colored Troops • Virginia Military Institute cadets in the Civil War • W.H. Younce, deserter • William Barker Cushing • William B. Gould • William Harding and retrieval of the body of his son from battlefield • William Henry Singleton • William Holland Thomas and the Eastern Band of Cherokee • William Shepperd Ashe • William Woods Holden • Wilmington in the Civil War • women of the Confederacy • Zebulon Baird Vance
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4957-8 / 1469649578
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4957-3 / 9781469649573