The Fight For The Old North State

Author : Hampton Newsome
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700630370

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The Fight for the Old North State by Hampton Newsome Pdf

On a cold day in early January 1864, Robert E. Lee wrote to Confederate president Jefferson Davis "The time is at hand when, if an attempt can be made to capture the enemy's forces at New Berne, it should be done." Over the next few months, Lee's dispatch would precipitate a momentous series of events as the Confederates, threatened by a supply crisis and an emerging peace movement, sought to seize Federal bases in eastern North Carolina. This book tells the story of these operations—the late war Confederate resurgence in the Old North State. Using rail lines to rapidly consolidate their forces, the Confederates would attack the main Federal position at New Bern in February, raid the northeastern counties in March, hit the Union garrisons at Plymouth and Washington in late April, and conclude with another attempt at New Bern in early May. The expeditions would involve joint-service operations, as the Confederates looked to support their attacks with powerful, homegrown ironclad gunboats. These offensives in early 1864 would witness the failures and successes of southern commanders including George Pickett, James Cooke, and a young, aggressive North Carolinian named Robert Hoke. Likewise they would challenge the leadership of Union army and naval officers such as Benjamin Butler, John Peck, and Charles Flusser. Newsome does not neglect the broader context, revealing how these military events related to a contested gubernatorial election; the social transformations in the state brought on by the war; the execution of Union prisoners at Kinston; and the activities of North Carolina Unionists. Lee's January proposal triggered one of the last successful Confederate offensives. The Fight for the Old North State captures the full scope, as well as the dramatic details of this struggle for North Carolina.

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623760328

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North Carolina, a Guide to the Old North State, by Best Books on Pdf

compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration for the state of North Carolina. Sponsored by North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development.

Author : Jeffrey J. Crow,Robert F. Durden
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807125210

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Maverick Republican in the Old North State by Jeffrey J. Crow,Robert F. Durden Pdf

Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed “the other South.” The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered politics when the Republican party first appeared in the state after the Civil War. For more than forty years thereafter he fought the solid South mentality of the Bourbon Democrats, first as a Radical Republican judge, then as a Greenbacker congressman, and finally as a Republican governor with Populist sympathies–the only chief executive of his party that North Carolina had between Reconstruction and the 1970s. The basic themes of Russell’s political life were racial and economic in nature. As a judge on the state superior court he ruled in the Wilmington opera house case of 1873 that blacks could not be denied accommodations on the account of their race. As a congressman he embraced the cause of currency reform and the regulation of corporate enterprise. Elected governor in 1896 by an uneasy coalition of Populists and Republicans—an alliance that Crow and Durden fully examine—he pushed reforms designed to bring nonresident corporations under stricter state supervision and challenged the ninety-nine-year lease of the state-owned North Carolina Railroad to J.P. Morgan’s Southern Railway Company. The Democrats’ triumphant white-supremacy campaigns of 1898 and 1900 and the resulting disfranchisement of black voters, however, crushed these progressive initiatives, and afterward the complex and sometimes irascible Russell kept a low profile until his tern ended in 1901. His final years were taken up by a famous interstate lawsuit that he initiated to force North Carolina to pay certain Reconstruction debts it had repudiated. The reasons for Russell’s political failure while southern Progressives of the period generally succeeded shed much new light on the reform movement in the South between 1890 and 1910. Although the reforms that he took up were no more radical than those called for by his contemporaries, Crow and Durden find in this first full account of his career that “in the last analysis, Russell’s unique blend of Old South paternalism toward blacks with New South radicalism concerning currency and railway reform challenged too many taboos of race, class, and party.”

Author : Richard Walser
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469610337

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Short Stories from the Old North State by Richard Walser Pdf

This new collection of short stories centers exclusively on North Carolina and contains fifteen stories by fifteen authors. Along with the new generation of North Carolina writers, stories by such well-known writers as Thomas Wolfe, William Polk, and James Boyd are also included. Originally published in 1959. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Houston Gwynne Jones
Publisher : American Chronicles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1596292601

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Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State by Houston Gwynne Jones Pdf

Can you call yourself a self-respecting North Carolinian if you don't know that Babe Ruth hit his first home run in the Tar Heel State? That Annie Oakley gave shooting lessons in Pinehurst? That renowned Siamese twins Chang and Eng lived in Surry County? Or that unrepenting bootleggers hid out in Rutherford County? Father-daughter team K. Randell and Caitlin D. Jones think not, and to cure your curiosity, to supply you with clever quips at cocktail parties or to convince your teachers that you really have studied, they have gathered a wonderful collection of stories originally written by lauded North Carolina historian Dr. H.G. Jones for his long-standing In Light of History series. This revised and updated edition contains ten additional accounts of Tar Heel history, accompanied by archival images from the lifetime collection of Dr. Jones and a map highlighting each story's geographic interest area.

Author : Michael K. Brantley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640123168

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Galvanized by Michael K. Brantley Pdf

Every Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed slaveholding. He also opposed secession and war, yet he fought on both sides of the conflict. During his time in each uniform, Batchelor barely avoided death at the Battle of Gettysburg, was captured twice, and survived one of the war’s most infamous prisoner-of-war camps. He escaped and, after walking hundreds of miles, rejoined his comrades at Petersburg, Virginia, just as the Union siege there began. Once the war ended, Batchelor returned on foot to his farm, where he took part in local politics, supported rights for freedmen, and was fatally involved in a bizarre hometown murder. Michael K. Brantley’s story of his great-great-grandfather’s odyssey blends memory and Civil War history to look at how the complexities of loyalty and personal belief governed one man’s actions—and still influence the ways Americans think about the conflict today.

Author : Mark Moore,Jessica Bandel,Michael Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : 1611212685

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The North Carolina Civil War Atlas by Mark Moore,Jessica Bandel,Michael Hill Pdf

The North Carolina Civil War Atlas is a comprehensive full-color study of the impact of the war on the Tar Heel State, incorporating 97 original maps. The only state-level atlas of its kind, the book is a sesquicentennial project of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. The large format (11" x 17") volume highlights every significant military engagement and analyzes the war's social, economic, and political consequences through tables, charts, and text. Manuscripts, election returns, newspapers, census records, and other sources were used to prepare the narrative and compile the tabulated data. From the capture of Hatteras Island and the Burnside Expedition through the fall of Fort Fisher and the Carolinas Campaign of 1865, the state's Civil War history is examined in a new light. Groundbreaking information includes updated casualty statistics, General Sherman's route of march, and the role of U.S. Colored Troops. Historic road networks are based on wartime maps created by engineer Jeremy F. Gilmer matched against the earliest modern road surveys. A variety of primary manuscript map resources were used from the State Archives and the University of North Carolina. Thanks to GIS technology, wartime places and landmarks, identified with their contemporary spellings, are presented in their correct geospatial orientation. Rare photographs complete the package. The North Carolina Civil War Atlas belongs on the shelves of every serious student of the Civil War in general, and the war in North Carolina in particular. This vital reference work will immediately take its rightful place in libraries alongside other North Carolina studies penned by such scholars as John G. Barrett, Mark Bradley, and Chris Fonvielle.

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C167943

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History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration ... by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission Pdf

Author : Mark A. Moore,Jessica A. Bandel,Michael Hill
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : 0865264716

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The Old North State at War by Mark A. Moore,Jessica A. Bandel,Michael Hill Pdf

Ninety-nine highly-detailed maps, many spanning a full 17" x 11" page, were created for this landmark study of the impact of the Civil War in the Tar Heel State. Every significant Civil War military engagement in the state is highlighted in this lavishly illustrated, full-color, 200-page, hardbound volume.

Author : James K. Bryant, II
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786490202

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The 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War by James K. Bryant, II Pdf

During the Civil War, African American war correspondent Thomas Morris Chester was so inspired by the men of the 36th United States Colored Troops that he declared the group to be "a model regiment." Composed primarily of former slaves recruited from Union-occupied areas of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, the 36th USCT participated in large-scale expeditions to liberate slaves, guarded Confederate prisoners at major POW camps, served in the trenches before Petersburg and Richmond, and stood as one of the first units to enter the abandoned Confederate capital on April 3, 1865. This volume, which includes a complete regimental roster, explores the background of these former slaves and their families, examines their initial recruitment and chronicles their military contributions throughout the war. More than a unit history, the story of the 36th USCT offers a vivid portrait of the challenging transition from slavery to freedom.

Author : Emory A. Massman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781476609638

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Hospital Ships of World War II by Emory A. Massman Pdf

The first U.S. hospital ship of World War II saw service in mid–1943. By war’s end, the fleet had carried nearly 17,000 sick and wounded home. This richly illustrated work covers all 39 ships that served as U.S. Navy and Army hospital ships during World War II. Each ship’s history is fully covered, concentrating on the ship’s hospital service. Information is presented on each ship’s personnel, the handling of patients, types of wounds and diseases encountered, and life aboard the ships. General layouts of the ships and technical data are also included. Biographies are provided on persons for whom ships were named.

Author : United States. Naval War Records Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X001914330

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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion by United States. Naval War Records Office Pdf

Author : Joseph J. Hoyle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456048

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"Deliver Us from This Cruel War" by Joseph J. Hoyle Pdf

Joseph J. Hoyle enlisted in the Confederate Army in May 1862 as a private. By the time of his death in September 1864, he was serving as a lieutenant in the 55th Regiment North Carolina Troops. The personal letters of this soldier, supplemented by the editor's overview of the events and actions of the regiment, offer a view of the common soldier as well as battlefield and camp culture. The letters also reveal, among other things, how this former schoolteacher urged his fellow soldiers forward at Gettysburg despite a sense that the cause was lost.

Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026646870

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Special News Releases Relating to the Life and Time of George Washington by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission Pdf

Author : Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:319510023736378

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The Rebellion Record by Frank Moore Pdf