Masters of the Shoals
Masters of the Shoals

Author: Jim McNeil

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2005-12-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780306812804

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These are the stories of daring harbor pilots who risked their lives for the Confederacy. This volume brings to life these brave pilots of Cape Fear who saved the South from gradual starvation.

Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals

Author: Bland Simpson

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2005-04-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780807856178

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In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived

Blood and War at my Doorstep
Blood and War at my Doorstep

Author: Brenda Chambers McKean

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-07-08

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 1453543651

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Continuing from Volume I, Volume II intersperses numerous soldiers’ letters with those from home. The issue of slavery from both the owners and individuals is brought forth. Did colored men really serve as Confederate soldiers? Did free black men? Union soldiers described southern women as defi ant, beautiful, crude, and pitiful. Read of women aboard blockade-runners, the fall of Wilmington, Sherman’s march, Stoneman’s western raiders, and the end of the war. Did any civilians die due to these raids? Did they idly sit by as their lives and homes were destroyed? The war did come to their doorstep during the second half of the confl ict. Both Volume I and II tell something from each of the state’s 87 counties. Perhaps you may fi nd information about your ancestor among these pages. Information from period newspapers, as well as mostly unpublished letters, tell their stories.