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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Hope for our worldBy CynthiaThis book has made me ponder and examine my beliefs in new ways. Dr. Gregg writes clearly. Her logical premise explains not only why we have had so much religious violence in the world; but what can be done to shift and change it. Reading this book brought me new hope for the possibility of world peace in my lifetime.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It's not just militant Muslims.By lyndonbrechtThis is a well-done and generally very good book on an important topic; highly relevant in an era traumatized by militant Islamic terrorism. The book looks at histories that provide parallels and some differences. There are sections on the Crusades; Sinhalese Buddhist fundamentalism (in Sri Lanka); Hindu-Muslim violence; several jihadi movements from the past; and Jewish violence in 20th century Palestine.Gregg argues that religious violence comes when people feel threatened. It's a provocative point. The various sections are interesting to compare and make a crucial point that religious violence is not and has never been just a matter of Islamic jihadis. Her point brings up the obvious about why people in several religions today feel threatened and by what. The obvious examples are Boko Haram; ISIL and so on; but there remains potent Hindu violence not quite at the point of release; and Buddhists in Myanmar appear to be getting violent against the Muslim minority there. I'm not entirely convinced about the Crusades; though.Her examples could have been more extensive. It might have been appropriate for her to include something on the violence in the disintegration of Yugoslavia--were the massacres religious in nature; such as that of Bosnian Muslims (the victims)? She might have included the famed and long jihad of Shamyl (against Russians; in the Caucasus) or the Madhi in the British Sudan.I think she goes a little out of her way to avoid characterizing Islam as more prone to violence than other religions. Still her point is valid; there are a lot of Muslims who feel deeply threated; by the intrusion of competing values on the roles of women; by economic changes bring wrought by globalization; and simply by what might be called secularism triumphant in global culture. I don't agree with everything in the book; but her examples are enlightening.
