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978-0-89587-271-3
0-89587-217-X
$21.95 paperback
7 1/2" x 8 1/2"
488 pages
maps, black-and-white photographs, appendix, index
Other books in the Touring the Backroads™ series!
Touring the Backroads of North
Carolina's Lower Coast
Touring the Backroads of North
Carolina's Upper Coast
Touring the Backroads of North and
South Georgia
Touring the Carolinas' Civil War
Sites
Touring the East Tennessee
Backroads
Touring the Middle Tennessee Backroads
Touring South Carolina's
Revolutionary War Sites
Touring the
Shenandoah Valley Backroads
Touring Virginia's and West
Virginia's Civil War Sites
Touring the Western North Carolina
Backroads
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"The story of how
thirteen diverse colonies were able to defeat an invading army of the
best soldiers in the world serves to inspire people around the globe
more than two hundred years later," writes Daniel W. Barefoot.
No colony played a greater
role than North Carolina. In 1766, Cape Fear Patriots offered the first
armed resistance to Royal authority in the colonies. In Alamance County
in 1771, Regulators clashed with the governor's troops in what some
consider the Revolution's first battle. At Charlotte in 1775, citizens
crafted what was perhaps the colonies' first declaration of
independence. In 1776, the enactment of the Halifax Resolves made North
Carolina the first colony to instruct its Continental Congress delegates
to vote for independence. And the list goes on.
The fourteen tours in this
book tell the story of Revolutionary War North Carolina at the places
where events occurred--at the homes of participants, on the ground where
battles were fought, at the graves of men and women who sacrificed for
freedom.
From the coast to the
frontier, travelers will meet both the august--men like Nathanael
Greene, William R. Davie, and William Hooper--and the colorful--people
like Banastre Tarleton, Ben Cleveland, and "Jennie Bahn"
McNeill.
about the author
A longtime resident of Lincolnton, North Carolina, Daniel W.
Barefoot lives on the very street that was the site of the Battle of
Ramsour's Mill in June 1780. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate of the
University of North Carolina School of Law. He is also the author of Touring
South Carolina's Revolutionary War Sites, Touring
the Backroads of North Carolina's Lower Coast, and Touring
the Backroads of North Carolina's Upper Coast. |
