Executing Daniel Bright: race, loyalty, and guerrilla violence in a coastal Carolina community, 1861-1865
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1. Verfasser: Myers, Barton A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2009
Schriftenreihe:Conflicting worlds
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index
The roots of Civil War loyalty : black labor and Whig politics in Pasquotank County -- "The work of evil minded citizens" : divided loyalties and the origins of guerrilla war in the North Carolina no-man's-land -- "An Elysium and an asylum to the buffaloes and Union men" : Edward Wild's raid and the execution of Daniel Bright -- "Without aid or protection from any source" : negotiating neutrality for Pasquotank County -- Epilogue : the problem of verifying loyalty in the no-man's-land
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 incursions along the coast. Daniel Bright, by conflicting accounts either a Confederate soldier home on leave or a deserter and guerrilla fighter guilty of plundering farms and harassing local Unionists, was hanged inside an unfinished postal building
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 193 pages, [4] pages of plates)
ISBN:0807136735
9780807136737

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