Begins by looking at secession and war in North Carolina then moves to the convention of 1865 and the political and social conditions under the restored governm
Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effor
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a c