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978-0-89587-087-2
0-89587-087-8
$16.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
338 pages
black-and-white photos, index
Also by William Trotter:
Silk Flags
and Cold Steel: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Piedmont
Ironclads and Columbiads:
The Civil War in North Carolina: The Coast
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Bushwhackers tells the
startling and little-known story of America's bloodiest war as it was
fought in the mountains of North Carolina. Much of the story of the war
remains alive in the generational memories and oral traditions of the
mountain people. Mountain families whose roots go back that far still
speak of the dark night on a backwoods road when great-great-grandfather
was cut down by bushwhackers, or of that raw morning when
great-great-grandmother stood on her front porch and watched a patrol of
Thomas's Highland Legion--full-blooded Cherokee warriors--ride by with
fresh Union scalps dangling from their saddle horns.
From the courageous exploits
of soldiers and citizens to the atrocities committed by pro-Union and
pro-Confederate factions, the mountain war in North Carolina represented
both the best and worst of the South. In the mountains, where sentiments
on both sides were strongly held, internecine warfare broke out. Bloody
skirmishes were fought between Unionist and Confederate guerrillas.
Family feuds erupted into ever-widening circles of violence and revenge.
And countless numbers of men, women, and children were caught in the
crossfire of conflicting loyalties.
Bushwhackers recounts
hundreds of incidents that brought the war home to the mountains of the
Old North State. Some are violent, some humorous; some are heroic, some
shameful. From the opening shots of the war to the vicious acts of
vengeance that continued for months and even years after the war ended, Bushwhackers
relates the tragic and rarely told tale of how the Civil War was fought
among the proud mountain people of North Carolina.
about the author
William R. Trotter is a senior writer for Signal Research
Corporation and an editor of Game Players Magazine. His other
books include two additional volumes covering the Civil War in North
Carolina--Silk Flags and Cold
Steel: The Piedmont and Ironclads
and Columbiads: The Coast. His other published works include Deadly
Kin, a book about the Newson/Klenner murders, and A Frozen Hell,
a history of the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40. He and his wife
and three children live in Greensboro, North Carolina. |
