Tag Archives: Zebulon Vance

Defending Quaker Consciences in the Confederacy

Posted on August 5, 2020 by ECW Guest Post

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 →

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Book Review: “The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January—May 1864”

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ryan Quint

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 →

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A Conversation with Philip Gerard on The Last Battleground (part two)

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Chris Mackowski

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 →

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The Vance Brothers

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Phill Greenwalt

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 →

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