The Civil War In North Carolina The Mountains

Author : Christopher M. Watford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476605630

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The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 2: The Mountains by Christopher M. Watford Pdf

“You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service.... Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service.... In all probability our regiment will be stationed here permanently for the winter to guard the bridge across the Watauga River...”—Private John H. Phillips, Company E, 62nd Regiment NC Troops, Camp Carter, Tennessee, October 13, 1862 This work presents letters and diary entries (and a few other documents) that tell the Civil War experiences of soldiers and civilians from the mountain counties of North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey. The book is arranged chronologically, 1861 through 1865. Before each letter or diary entry, background information is provided about the writer.

Author : Christopher M. Watford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American diaries
ISBN : 0786413778

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The Civil War in North Carolina: The mountains by Christopher M. Watford Pdf

Author : William R. Trotter
Publisher : Blair
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024782057

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Bushwhackers! by William R. Trotter Pdf

A history of the Civil War in the mountains of NC.

Author : John C. Inscoe,Gordon B. McKinney
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807855030

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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia by John C. Inscoe,Gordon B. McKinney Pdf

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the

Author : Ina W. Van Noppen,John J. Van Noppen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1469638312

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Western North Carolina Since the Civil War by Ina W. Van Noppen,John J. Van Noppen Pdf

No region has undergone more dramatic changes in the last century than Western North Carolina. Published in 1973, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War takes a look at the mountain people and their uniquely structured economic, political, social, and cultural systems. The Van Noppens specifically explore the different qualities of the mountain people such as their institutions, traditions, customs, and arts and crafts. Beginning with a dark period of social and economic disintegration after the end of the Civil War, the study traces the mountain peoples' lives from isolation to economic booms all while maintaining their traditions and cultural heritage.

Author : John C. Inscoe
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0870499335

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Mountain Masters by John C. Inscoe Pdf

Antebellum Southern Appalachia has long been seen as a classless and essentially slaveless region - one so alienated and isolated from other parts of the South that, with the onset of the Civil War, highlanders opposed both secession and Confederate war efforts. In a multifaceted challenge to these basic assumptions about Appalachian society in the mid-nineteenth century, John Inscoe reveals new variations on the diverse motives and rationales that drove Southerners, particularly in the Upper South, out of the Union. Mountain Masters vividly portrays the wealth, family connections, commercial activities, and governmental power of the slaveholding elite that controlled the social, economic, and political development of western North Carolina. In examining the role played by slavery in shaping the political consciousness of mountain residents, the book also provides fresh insights into the nature of southern class interaction, community structure, and master-slave relationships.

Author : Charles Frazier
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197177

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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Pdf

A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

Author : J. L. Askew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1644685760

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War In The Mountains by J. L. Askew Pdf

During the War Between the States, the mountains of North Carolina were a hotbed of internecine strife where the phrase "brother against brother" truly applied. By late 1863, the Confederate government took measures to tighten control of the region, establishing the Western District of North Carolina under command of General Robert Vance, covering the area from the Blue Ridge Mountains westward to the borders of adjacent states. In less than four months, in the largest military operation conducted by the fledging department, General Vance was defeated and captured during an incursion into East Tennessee. Colonel John B. Palmer, Vance's replacement, had barely taken command at Asheville before Confederate General James Longstreet pulled his army from East Tennessee, leaving the Western District exposed and threatened by the growing Union presence at Knoxville. Palmer travelled to Richmond to plead for more troops, especially an artillery battery, to counter recent Federal raids where he was outgunned by Yankees armed with cannons. The Confederate high command found the Macbeth Light Artillery at Charleston, ordering the unit to Asheville where they arrived late May 1864. Hardened veterans of Second Manassas and Antietam, the Macbeth would see a different face of war in the mountains, fighting a different kind of enemy, often not in any uniform, native Southerners disloyal to the Confederate cause, conscript evaders, deserters, disparagingly called "Tories" and "Homegrown Yankees." This book is a panorama of the mountain war in Western North Carolina and Upper East Tennessee, of raids, skirmishes, and battles where rebel commander John B. Palmer defended the Western District against the likes of the notorious Yankee Colonel, George W. Kirk, and his raiders. The Macbeth Light Artillery is covered in a first book length account within the context of a comprehensive study of military operations during 1864 and 1865 in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.

Author : Michael C. Hardy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614233282

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North Carolina in the Civil War by Michael C. Hardy Pdf

Civil War scholar Michael Hardy delves into the story of North Carolina's Confederate past, from civilians to soldiers, as these Tar Heels proved they were a force to be reckoned with. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Carolina's Confederate soldiers. Tar Heels witnessed the pitched battles of New Bern, Averysboro and Bentonville, as well as incursions like Sherman's March and Stoneman's Raid. The state was one of the last to leave the Union but contributed more men and sustained more dead than any other Southern state. This inclusive history of the Old North State is a must-read for any Civil War buff!

Author : Michael C. Hardy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664087

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Kirk's Civil War Raids Along the Blue Ridge by Michael C. Hardy Pdf

In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, no character was more loved or despised than George W. Kirk. This inured Union officer led a group of deserters on numerous raids between Tennessee and North Carolina in 1863, terrorizing Confederate soldiers and civilians alike. At Camp Vance in Morganton, Kirk's mounted raiders showcased guerrilla warfare penetrating deep within Confederate territory. As Home Guards struggled to keep Western North Carolina communities safe, Kirk's men brought fear and violence throughout the region for their ability to strike and create havoc without warning. Civil War historian Michael C. Hardy examines the infamous history of George W. Kirk and the Civil War along the Blue Ridge.

Author : Steven E. Nash
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626253

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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge by Steven E. Nash Pdf

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South. Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.

Author : David Silkenat
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820349466

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Driven from Home by David Silkenat Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Gwine to Liberty -- Chapter 2: Crowded with Refugees -- Chapter 3: Driven into Exile -- Chapter 4: Confederacy of Refugees -- Chapter 5: In Good Hands, in a Safe Place -- Chapter 6: A Home for the Rest of the War -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Author : William L. Barney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195314359

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The Making of a Confederate by William L. Barney Pdf

For all the advances of the civil rights movement, and for all the cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by power-hungry Yankees. The Making of a Confederate uses the life of one man--Walter Lenoir of North Carolina--to explore the origins of southern white identity and the myriad ambiguities and complexities embedded in that history. Lenoir's case is particularly fascinating in the way it complicates notions about the sources of rabid devotion to the Confederate cause. Although born into a wealthy slaveholding family, Lenoir acknowledged the institution's evils and intended to divest himself of his inherited slaves. Opposed to secession, he planned in 1860 to move to Minnesota in the free North. With the war's outbreak, however, everything changed. Lenoir joined the Confederate army and fervidly supported its cause to the end. His postwar career reveals how one Confederate coped with bereavement and a crushing sense of loss, as he refashioned his memory of what had caused the war and embraced the cult of the Lost Cause. And while some southerners sank into depression, sought accommodation with the victors, or opposed the new order through various means, Lenoir found a fresh purpose by withdrawing to his acreage in the North Carolina mountains to pursue his own vision of the South's future, one that called for greater self-sufficiency and a more efficient use of the land. For Walter Lenoir and many other Confederates, the war never really ended. In tracing this compelling story, William Barney offers new insight into the uses of memory and how individual choices transform abstract historical processes into concrete actions.

Author : John Gilchrist Barrett
Publisher : Division of Archives and History North Carolina Department Tural
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : UIUC:30112047578890

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North Carolina as a Civil War Battleground, 1861-1865 by John Gilchrist Barrett Pdf

Author : Carroll C. Jones
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786495553

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The 25th North Carolina Troops in the Civil War by Carroll C. Jones Pdf

This historical account covers the 25th Regiment North Carolina Infantry Troops during the Civil War. Farmers and farmers' sons left their mountain homesteads to enlist with the regiment at Asheville in July and August 1861 and to defend their homeland from a Yankee invasion. The book chronicles the unit's defensive activities in the Carolina coastal regions and the battlefield actions at Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Plymouth, Richmond and Petersburg. In addition, casualty and desertion statistics are included, along with a complete regimental roster and 118 photos, illustrations, and maps.