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Richard Gatlin and the Confederate defense of Eastern North Carolina / James L. Gaddis Jr.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781626198425
  • ISBN: 162619842X
  • Physical Description: 190 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1 "Cope of Heaven": Caswells, Gatlins and Kinston 15 -- 2 "God-Forsaken Place": West Point 20 -- 3 "In Consequence of the Cholera": The Black Hawk War 24 -- 4 "Charnel House of the Army": On the Indian Frontier 29 -- 5 "Remember the Caroline": The Patriot's War 43 -- 6 "I Did My Duty": The Seminole War 52 -- 7 "Halls of the Montezumas": The Mexican War 61 -- 8 "Gloomy Endurance of a Shrouded Future": Mid-Century Joy and Tragedy 71 -- 9 "A Great Event Has Happened": Into the West and Back 78 -- 10 "The Undersigned Hereby Assumes Command": North Carolina Coastal Commander 88 -- 11 "These Defenses Have Been Too Long Neglected": Yankee Invasion 98 -- 12 "It Is to Be Regretted That General Hill Should Have Been Removed": Counting on the Confederacy 106 -- 13 "North Carolina Has to Fight Her Own Battles": The Burnside Expedition 127 -- 14 "These Failures Do Not by Right Rest with Me": After the Fall 144 -- 15 "I Shall Turn Gurilla": North Carolina Adjutant General 149 -- 16 "My Former Military Life Has Not Peculiarly Fitted Me for a New Occupation": Return to Fort Smith 160.
Subject:
Gatlin, R. C. (Richard Caswell), 1809-1896.
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Atlantic Coast (N.C.) > History, Military > 19th century.
Genre:
Biographies.

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George H. & Laura E. Brown Library CR 975.746 Gad (Text) 30308101152941 North Carolina Room Adult Reference Available -
Beaufort Main NC 973.731 GADDI (Text) 34208203583843 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library LH 973.7092 G123r (Text) 37807000062396 Local History Reference Noncirculating -
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Forsyth Central B Gatlin, Richard (Text) 0112520484855 Adult Biography Available -
Forsyth Central B Gatlin, Richard (Text) 0112520484864 North Carolina Collection Noncirculating -
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