Civil War Charlotte

Author : Michael C. Hardy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235511
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Charlotte written by Michael C. Hardy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though always an important North Carolina city, Charlotte truly helped to make history during the Civil War. The city's factories produced gunpowder, percussion caps, and medicine for the Confederate cause. Perhaps most importantly, Charlotte housed the Confederate Naval Ordnance Depot and Naval Works, manufacturing iron for ironclad vessels and artillery projectiles, and providing valuable ammunition for the South. Charlotte also sent over 2,500 men into the Confederate army, and played home to a military hospital, a Ladies Aid Society, a prison and even the mysterious Confederate gold. When Richmond fell, Jefferson Davis set up his headquarters in Charlotte, making it the unofficial capital. Join historian Michael C. Hardy as he recounts the triumphs and struggles of Queen City civilians and soldiers in the Civil War.

Author : Michael C. Hardy
Publisher : Civil War
ISBN 13 : 9781609494803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Charlotte written by Michael C. Hardy and published by Civil War. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though always an important North Carolina city, Charlotte truly helped to make history during the Civil War. The city's factories produced gunpowder, percussion caps, and medicine for the Confederate cause. Perhaps most importantly, Charlotte housed the Confederate Naval Ordnance Depot and Naval Works, manufacturing iron for ironclad vessels and artillery projectiles, and providing valuable ammunition for the South. Charlotte also sent over 2,500 men into the Confederate army, and played home to a military hospital, a Ladies Aid Society, a prison and even the mysterious Confederate gold. When Richmond fell, Jefferson Davis set up his headquarters in Charlotte, making it the unofficial capital. Join historian Michael C. Hardy as he recounts the triumphs and struggles of Queen City civilians and soldiers in the Civil War.

Author : Robert C. Carpenter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623309
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War written by Robert C. Carpenter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war experience tells of ordinary soldiers and their wives, mothers and children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists and deserters--through an examination of tax records. The recently discovered 1863 Gaston County, North Carolina, tax list provides a detailed economic and social picture of a war-weary community, recording what taxpayers owned, cataloging slaves by name, age and monetary value, and assessing luxury items. Contemporary diaries, letters and other previously unpublished documents complete the picture, describing cotton mill operations, the lives of slaves, political disagreements, rationales for soldiers' enlistments and desertions, and economic struggles on the home front.

Author : Michael C. Hardy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614233284
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina in the Civil War written by Michael C. Hardy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War scholar Michael Hardy delves into the story of North Carolina's Confederate past, from civilians to soldiers, as these Tar Heels proved they were a force to be reckoned with. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Carolina's Confederate soldiers. Tar Heels witnessed the pitched battles of New Bern, Averysboro and Bentonville, as well as incursions like Sherman's March and Stoneman's Raid. The state was one of the last to leave the Union but contributed more men and sustained more dead than any other Southern state. This inclusive history of the Old North State is a must-read for any Civil War buff!

Author : John Gilchrist Barrett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in North Carolina written by John Gilchrist Barrett and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1963 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the American Civil War. John Barrett presents the complete story of military engagements across the state, including the classical pitched battle of Bentonville, the siege of Fort Fisher, the amphibious campaigns on the coast, and cavalry sweeps such as Stoneman's raid.

Author : Richard M. Reid
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783727X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom for Themselves written by Richard M. Reid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.

Author : Nikki Shannon Smith
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
ISBN 13 : 1496583841
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Spies for Justice written by Nikki Shannon Smith and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, owned by a Miss Van Lew, who hates slavery, and when Charlotte overhears a conversation she realizes that her mistress is gathering information and passing it on to the Union army; Charlotte is eager to help, (especially since her own cousin, Mary, is involved) but her enthusiasm may endanger them all--or help free 400 Union soldiers who are being moved from Richmond further south. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.

Author : Mauriel Joslyn
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589808768
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlotte's Boys written by Mauriel Joslyn and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reveals the fate of the three Branch sons, John, Sanford, and Hamilton; their mother, Charlotte; and their extended family and friends from 1861 through 1866. An analogue to the travails endured by Savannah herself, the Branch letters offer a revealing look at military and civilian struggles during the Civil War.

Author : John Gilchrist Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War in North Carolina written by John Gilchrist Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William T. Auman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647663X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt written by William T. Auman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the seven military operations conducted by the Confederacy against deserters and disloyalists and the concomitant internal war between secessionists and those who opposed secession in the Quaker Belt of central North Carolina. It explains how the "outliers" (deserters and draft-dodgers) managed to elude capture and survive despite extensive efforts by Confederate authorities to hunt them down and return them to the army. The author discusses the development of the secret underground pro-Union organization the Heroes of America, and how its members utilized the Underground Railroad, dug-out caves, and an elaborate system of secret signals and communications to elude the "hunters." Numerous instances of murder, rape, torture and other brutal acts and many skirmishes between gangs of deserters and Confederate and state troops are recounted. In a revisionist interpretation of the Tar Heel wartime peace movement, the author argues that William Holden's peace crusade was in fact a Copperhead insurgency in which peace agitators strove for a return of North Carolina and the South to the Union on the Copperhead basis--that is, with the institution of slavery protected by the Constitution in the returning states.