The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina

by Philip Gerard

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146964956X
• ISBN13: 9781469649566
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.6" x 9.7"