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Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
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 i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Rebels against the Confederacy
In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Andrew Lang • Earl J. Hess • Lisa Tendrich Frank • Kenneth W. Noe • Daniel E. Sutherland • Brian Steel Wills • Barton A. Myers • Brian D. Mcknight • Aaron Astor • Matthew M. Stith • Scott Thompson • Adam Domby • Andrew Fialka • Joseph Beilein • Laura J. Davis • Matthew C. Hulbert • Stephen RockenbachThroughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017