Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnson (Civil War America)
by Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr Hughes
Hardcover   Published by Univ of North Carolina Press     Publication date: September 1, 1996 
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Books from Chapel Hill, 1922-1997: A Complete Catalog of Publications from the University of North Carolina Press   by University of North Carolina Press 
Paperback, 512 pages     Publication date: October 1, 1997 
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North Carolina: A History by William S. Powell 
Paperback, 231 pages 
Published by Univ of North Carolina Press 
Publication date: October 1988 
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North Carolina Through Four Centuries  by William S. Powell 
Booknews, Inc. , 12/01/89:  The successor to the classic North Carolina; The History of a Southern State, (Hugh T. Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome) published in 1954 and only modestly revised since then.  During the last four decades, the study of North Carolina history has flourished and the contemporary scene has changed, creating a need for a new survey history. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. 
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Encyclopedia of American Family Names
by H. Amanda Robb, Andrew Chesler  Hardcover / Published 1995 
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The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
by John Buchanan 
From Booklist , 02/15/97:  This outstanding popular military history covers the American Revolution in North and South Carolina.  More divided than any other region between patriot and Tory, the Carolinas were the scene of a two-year British campaign (1780-81) to raise the country for the crown. Lord Cornwallis began well by taking Charleston but subsequently found himself facing an assortment of American generals who could not win but refused to submit. Cornwallis was also hindered as much as helped by the Tories, whose militia efforts were never as successful as those of their patriot counterparts. Eventually, lack of supplies rather than actual defeat drove Cornwallis into Virginia and on the road to Yorktown. Buchanan writes with superlative clarity and considerable wit, providing character sketches better than many novelists', while maintaining balance in judgment and thoroughness in research (the annotated bibliography is valuable to beginning and entrenched students of the Revolution alike). Altogether, an accomplishment of the same high order as Robinson's Good Year to Die (1995) and McPherson's Civil War historiography. Copyright© 1997, American Library Association. All rights reserved 
Paperback, 452 pages       Publication date: February 1997 
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Ironclads and Columbiads : The Coast (The Civil War in North Carolina, V. 3)
by William R. Trotter 
Reader comment:  dlowry@tfb.com , 05/15/97, rating=8: 
Deserves attention. Not all of the Civil War was fought in Virginia (or Tennessee, or Georgia), and this book provides an account of numerous little-known nor long-remembered campaigns that should get more attention than they do.  It's readable.  It's interesting.  It's well-researched.  It's something more than yet another rehash of who-lost-Gettysburg.  What more could a Civil War buff want? 
Reprint Edition     Paperback, 456 pages 
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Insiders' Guide to the Triangle: Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro (Insiders' Guide) by J. Barlow Herget, Katherine Kopp, Dee Reid, Herget J. Barlow 
8th Edition    Paperback, 500 pages   Publication date: June 1, 1997 
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The Insiders' Guide North Carolina's Southern Coast and Wilmington
by Samantha Owen Fey, Deborah Ellis Daniel 
8th Edition       Paperback          Publication date: August 2001 
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The Insiders' Guide North Carolina's Southern Coast and Wilmington
by  Randall Duckett, Maryellen Duckett 
Paperback 
Publication date: June 9, 2000  
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The Civil War in North Carolina    by John G. Barrett
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Publication date: February 1, 1995
Reissue Edition - Paperback 
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Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas
by E. Stanley Jr. Godbold, Mattie U. Russell, E. Stanly Godbold 
Hardcover, 205 pages 
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North Carolina Civil War Documentary by Yearns, W. Buck Yearns 
Hardcover, 365 pages  Published by Univ of North Carolina Press 
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Common Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina by Bill Cecil-Fronsman
Card catalog description:  At the time of the Civil War, roughly three out of every four southern whites did not own slaves. Most of the rest owned only a few. Until recently, these "common whites" have been largely forgotten.  In the past few years, several important studies have examined common whites in individual counties or groups of counties, but they have focused on family life, the economy, or other specific features of the common-white life. Common Whites: Class and Culture in Ante-bellum North Carolina is the first comprehensive examination of these non-slaveholders and small slaveholders in over forty years.  Using North Carolina as a case in point, Bill Cecil-Fronsman has sketched a broad portrait of the world made by this group.  Drawing on travelers' accounts, newspapers, folk songs and folk tales, quantitative analysis of census reports, and, above all, the common whites' own words, he has woven the individual threads of the culture into an in-depth analysis of their world and their responses to it. This work focuses on the issues of class and culture. Here, Cecil-Fronsman explores why the common whites accepted the slave system even though it worked to their disadvantage. He demonstrates how the market economy of the outside world played a negligible role in their lives and how their unique traditional attitudes toward family and community evolved.  Finally, he recounts how, though most common whites supported the Confederate cause during the Civil War, many of the old loyalties broke down during the war years.  The common whites, though they outnumbered the slaves and the elites, make up the least studied group in the Old South.  This book takes us beyond the stereotypes and misconceptions to a better understanding of a group of people virtually ignored by traditional history. 
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