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Executing Daniel Bright : race, loyalty, and guerrilla violence in a coastal Carolina community, 1861-1865 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Barton A., 1980-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2009]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
Pasquotank County (N.C.) > History, Military > 19th century.
Bright, Daniel, > -1863.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Underground movements.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Underground movements.
Guerrillas > North Carolina > Pasquotank County > History > 19th century.
Executions and executioners > North Carolina > Pasquotank County > History > 19th century.
Wild, Edward Augustus, > 1825-1891.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Table of Contents:
  • The roots of Civil War loyalty : black labor and Whig politics in Pasquotank County
  • "The work of evil minded citizens" : divided loyalties and the origins of guerrilla war in the North Carolina no-man's-land
  • "An Elysium and an asylum to the buffaloes and Union men" : Edward Wild's raid and the execution of Daniel Bright
  • "Without aid or protection from any source" : negotiating neutrality for Pasquotank County
  • Epilogue : the problem of verifying loyalty in the no-man's-land.