Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865

by Barton A. Myers

Book Overview

On December 18, 1863, just north of Elizabeth City in rural northeastern North Carolina, a large group of white Union officers and black enlisted troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild executed a local citizen for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army incursions along the coast. Daniel Bright, by conflicting accounts either a Confederate soldier home on leave or a deserter and guerrilla fighter guilty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807143626
• ISBN13: 9780807143629
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"