Civil War Books
KIRK'S RAIDERS
The 2nd & 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantries
Copyright 2000 by Matthew Bumgarner
The mountains of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina were deeply divided in their loyalties to Union and Confederate causes during the War of the Rebellion.
Colonel George Kirk of Greeneville, Tennessee led nearly 2000 Southern boys against their brothers in battles at Warm Springs, Burnsville, Morganton, Erwin, Waynesville, Blowing Rock and Lenoir. After the war, Kirk returned to North Carolina to suppress the KKK insurrection, which was fighting the corrupt Reconstruction government and cemented his place in history. Mayhem, bloodshed and controversy followed George Kirk wherever he went. This is his story.
Award Winner!
2001 AASLH Award
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My Face to the Enemy
Copyright 2001 by Matthew Bumgarner
My Face to the Enemy is a collection of the memories of the Confederate soldiers who served during the Civil War with the Sixth North Carolina State Troops, aka, The Bloody Sixth.
The Bloody Sixth was the pride of the Tarheel State. Read about the major battles from the hand of Neill Ray, Captain of Company D. Feel the loss of Colonel Issac Avery, who scrawled a dying thought, "Tell my father I died with my face to the enemy" to his boyhood friend and compatriot. Experience the bitter taste of Reconstruction through the letters of Captain Ray to his former colonel, Samuel McDowell Tate, and finally read perhaps the most stirring Confederate Memorial Address ever given, penned by Colonel Tate.
It is a sorrowful, mourning view of his fallen comrades and amazingly courageous given the prevailing political views of the day.
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