The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina
The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina

Author: Frances H. Casstevens

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1476604037

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Located in the western piedmont of North Carolina, Yadkin County was hardly a hotbed of rebellion at the start of the Civil War. Many of the 1,200 men from Yadkin who served in the Confederate Army did so with distinction, but a number deserted. Some of these holed up in the Bond School House, and when the militia attempted to arrest them, four were killed and several others were wounded. This is a comprehensive accounting of how the county responded to the Civil War and the effect it had on Yadkin's citizens, civilian and military alike.

American Engraved Powder Horns
American Engraved Powder Horns

Author: Stephen V. Grancsay

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1946-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This catalogue deals primarily with the collection of American powder horns and primers formed by J. H. Grenville Gilbert, of Ware, Massachusetts, and generously presented to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1937. An essay on American engraved powder horns and a résumé of the Gilbert collection precede the catalogue, which consists of detailed descriptions of the individual pieces and notes of genealogical or historical interest. Each horn in the collection is illustrated by a collotype reproduction and, with one exception (an undecorated horn), by a line drawing of the engraved area. An indexed checklist of the collections records the pertinent details of each powder horn.

General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.
General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.

Author: Samuel J. Martin

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0786461942

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General Braxton Bragg is often described as a despicable, friendless man, the most hated general of the Confederacy. Historians have denigrated Bragg by accepting without challenge the self-serving accusations of prominent, disgruntled subordinates, each of whom sought to explain their own failures by assigning them to Bragg. This biography, without dodging Bragg's deficiencies, refutes much of this false testimony. The result is a balanced view of this controversial general, from his early rise to power in the Western theater to his subsequent fall from grace in the latter years of the Civil War.

Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918
Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918

Author: William N. Still Jr.

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 0865264953

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In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast. The work of shipbuilding craftsmen and entrepreneurs contributed to the colony's and the state's economy from the era of exploration through the age of naval stores to World War I. The study includes an inventory of 3,300 ships and 270 shipwrights.

Ibss: Anthropology: 1986
Ibss: Anthropology: 1986

Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780415031639

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