Richard Gatlin and the Confederate Defense of Eastern North Carolina
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Richard Gatlin and the Confederate Defense of Eastern North Carolina

  1. 192 pages
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Richard Gatlin and the Confederate Defense of Eastern North Carolina

About this book

After the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter in April 1861, North Carolina took steps toward war. Governor John Ellis commandeered Federal forts, raised regiments and enlisted the aid of Mexican War hero and Kinston native Richard C. Gatlin. Under the new Confederacy, Gatlin commanded the Confederate Department of North Carolina as a brigadier general. He was charged with the defense of the Tar Heel State, and his failure to prevent the Union takeover of the coast has been lost in the annals of Civil War history. Join author and historian James L. Gaddis Jr. for an overlooked yet harrowing tale of power, politics, tragedy and war.

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Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781626198425
eBook ISBN
9781625853752
Topic
History
Subtopic
American Civil War History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Prologue. “Specter of Yankees”: Disaster at New Bern
  9. Chapter 1: “Cope of Heaven”: Caswells, Gatlins and Kinston
  10. Chapter 2: “God-Forsaken Place”: West Point
  11. Chapter 3: “In Consequence of the Cholera”: The Black Hawk War
  12. Chapter 4: “Charnel House of the Army”: On the Indian Frontier
  13. Chapter 5: “Remember the Caroline”: The Patriot’s War
  14. Chapter 6: “I Did My Duty”: The Seminole War
  15. Chapter 7: “Halls of the Montezumas”: The Mexican War
  16. Chapter 8: “Gloomy Endurance of a Shrouded Future”: Mid-Century Joy and Tragedy
  17. Chapter 9: “A Great Event Has Happened”: Into the West and Back
  18. Chapter 10: “The Undersigned Hereby Assumes Command”: North Carolina Coastal Commander
  19. Chapter 11: “These Defenses Have Been Too Long Neglected”: Yankee Invasion
  20. Chapter 12: “It Is to Be Regretted That General Hill Should Have Been Removed”: Counting on the Confederacy
  21. Chapter 13: “North Carolina Has to Fight Her Own Battles”: The Burnside Expedition
  22. Chapter 14: “These Failures Do Not by Right Rest with Me”: After the Fall
  23. Chapter 15: “I Shall Turn Gurilla”: North Carolina Adjutant General
  24. Chapter 16: “My Former Military Life Has Not Peculiarly Fitted Me for a New Occupation”: Return to Fort Smith
  25. Epilogue
  26. Notes
  27. Bibliography
  28. About the Author