PDF Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution: Eight Cases; 1848-1856 by Gordon S. Barker in History

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This history of the 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War--civilian soldiers and their families--follows the regiment from their 1861 mustering-in to their surrender at Appomattox; covering action at Gettysburg; Bristoe Station; The Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Drawing on letters; journals; memoirs; official reports; personnel records and family histories; this intensely personal account features Tar Heels relating their experiences through over 1;500 quoted passages. Casualty lists give the names of those killed; wounded; captured in action and died of disease. Rosters list regimental officers and staff; enlistees for all 10 companies and the names of the 78 men who stacked arms on April 9; 1865.