The Battle of Roanoke Island: Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina
The Battle of Roanoke Island: Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina

Author: Michael P. Zatarga

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-05-18

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1625854374

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In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhelmed by the bloodshed, questioned whether the costs of the war were too high. President Lincoln despondently wondered if he was going to lose the Union. As a result, tension was incredibly high when Union hero Ambrose Burnside embarked for coastal North Carolina. With the eyes of the nation and world on little Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks, Burnside began his amphibious assault on the beaches and earned a victory that shifted control of Southern waters. Join author and historian Michael Zatarga as he traces the story of the crucial fight on Roanoke Island.

The Burnside Expedition
The Burnside Expedition

Author: Ambrose Everett Burnside

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-04-10

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 338541430X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

A Determination Worthy of a Better Cause
A Determination Worthy of a Better Cause

Author: Lucas Samuel Simonds

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13:

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The Battle of Roanoke Island, during the American Civil War, was one of the first major amphibious landing operations in U.S. military history. As the Union Army landed troops on the island, an accompanying Union Naval squadron engaged a squadron of Confederate gunboats and some small forts on the island. This was the first in a series of battles known as the Burnside Expedition, which established a Union presence in eastern North Carolina that would last until the end of the Civil War. While the battle is historically important in its own right, here it serves as a case study for the application of a revised theory of battlefield archaeology that has been developed expressly for the purpose of studying human behavior during conflict. Drawing from a number of established theories of battlefield archaeology, this study incorporates a theory of military forces as complex systems, which redirects the focus of those established theories more closely on the study of human behavior. Using historical, geospatial, and archaeological data, this study explores the motivations behind the decisions made by the Union and Confederate naval commanders during the battle. Additionally, a limited side-scan sonar survey was conducted in order to assess the current state of submerged cultural resources related to the battle.