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Cape Fear Confederates : the 18th North Carolina regiment in the Civil War / James Gillispie.
Van Pelt Library E573.5 18th .G55 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillispie, James Massie, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 18th.
- Confederate States of America.
- Soldiers.
- History.
- Regimental histories.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- United States.
- North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- North Carolina.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
- North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Registers.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Registers.
- Soldiers--North Carolina--Registers.
- Genre:
- Registers (Lists)
- Directories.
- Physical Description:
- v, 242 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2012]
- Summary:
- "The 18th North Carolina was a part of two famous Confederate military machines. This history chronicles the regiment's exploits from its origins through combat to its surrender at Appomattox Court House. A roster of those surrendering officers and enlisted men and brief biographical sketches of those who fought with the regiment complete this account"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The 18th North Carolina's road to war
- Secession and the formation of the 18th North Carolina
- Seeing the elephant: Hanover Court House, Gaines's Mill, and Frayser's Farm
- Stonewall salutes the 18th: the Battle of Cedar Mountain
- Battling the "miscreant" Pope: Second Manassas and Chantilly/Ox Hill
- More hard marching: the Maryland Campaign
- A difficult way to end a year: fall and winter of 1862
- The regiment loses its colonel and its colors: the bloody Battle of Chancellorsville
- Difficult days: the Gettysburg Campaign and the winter of 1863-1864
- Desperate and relentless fighting: Wilderness to Cold Harbor
- Petersburg: the final campaign.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786448470
- 0786448474
- OCLC:
- 703210161
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