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Tag Archives: Zebulon Vance
Defending Quaker Consciences in the Confederacy
ECW welcomes guest author Max Longley John Bacon Crenshaw was clerk (chief executive) of the small Cedar Creek Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Richmond. During the war, he became an uncompensated lobbyist who strove to alleviate the sufferings of Quakers … Continue reading
Book Review: “The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January—May 1864”
The Confederacy faced a series of ever-increasing problems by the winter of 1863-1864. Logistically, they were running out of supplies. Politically, the war that seemed to have no end to its bloody lists was wearing down the morale of the … Continue reading
A Conversation with Philip Gerard on The Last Battleground (part two)
Part two of six Yesterday, we began a conversation with author Philip Gerard about his excellent new book The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina (UNC Press, 2019). “I started out knowing pretty much nothing about the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Civilian, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War
Tagged A-Conversation-With-Philip-Gerard, Atrocity of Shelton Laurel, casualties, Frederick Douglass, John Updike, North Carolina, Philip Gerard, reporting the war, Sisters of Mercy, The Last Battleground, William Henry Asbury Speer, Zebulon Vance
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The Vance Brothers
On a recent trip to North Carolina to speak at the Western North Carolina Civil War Round Table, I made a slight detour to visit the city of Asheville. While there I continued a mini-quest of mine to see the … Continue reading
