The Civil War in the Carolinas

the long version

"Dan Morrill relates the experience of two quite different states bound together in the defense of the Confederacy, using letters, diaries, memoirs, and reports. He shows how three innovative operations of the Union army and navy along the coast and in the bays and rivers of the Carolinas affected the general course of the war as well as the daily lives of all Carolinians. In the later part of the war, he describes how Sherman's operations cut out the heart of the last stronghold of the South.". "The author offers fascinating sketches of major and minor personalities including the new president and state governors, Generals Lee, Beauregard, D. H. Pickett, Sherman, and Joseph E. Johnston. Rebels and abolitionist, pacifists and unionist, slaves, and freed men and women, all influential, all placed in their context with clear eyed and humorous precision. If he were wielding a needle instead of a pen, his tapestry would offer us a complete picture of a people at war."--BOOK JACKET.