Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader

by Gordon B. McKinney

In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807828653
• ISBN13: 9780807828656
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"