Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain

Author: Charles Frazier

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0802197175

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A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: a Roster, Volume 17
North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: a Roster, Volume 17

Author: Matthew M. Brown

Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780865263390

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Acclaimed as "the finest state roster ever published" and a "magnificent achievement," North Carolina Troops is an invaluable resource for scholars, local historians, genealogists, and Civil War enthusiasts. Each indexed volume contains unit histories and the names and service records of approximately 7,000 North Carolinians who served in the Civil War.

Civil War Courts-Martial of North Carolina Troops
Civil War Courts-Martial of North Carolina Troops

Author: Aldo S. Perry

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-08-08

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0786488573

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During the Civil War, Confederate military courts sentenced to death more soldiers from North Carolina than from any other state. This study offers the first exploration of the service records of 450 of these wayward Confederates, most often deserters. Arranged by army, corps, division and brigade, it chronicles their military trials and frequent executions and offers explanations of how the lucky and the clever were able to avoid their fate. Focus on court activity by company allows for comparisons that emphasize the wide disparity in discipline within a regiment and brigade. By stressing the effectiveness of these deadly decisions as deterrents to others, this work maintains that an earlier and wider reliance on execution would have strengthened the Confederacy sufficiently to force a negotiated end to the war, thus saving many Confederate and Federal lives.