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In 1725, Maurice Moore convinced his friends and family from the
Goose Creek section of South Carolina to relocate to North
Carolina's Cape Fear River and build their own settlement. The
Moores quickly laid out a new town called Brunswick that would
become the colony's only port with direct access to the Atlantic
Ocean. Over the course of its existence, Brunswick was raided by
Spanish privateers, sacked by British redcoats, and was home to
some of the leading figures in colonial and Revolutionary War North
Carolina. Two Royal Governors made their home there, and one of the
earliest rebellions against English rule were acted out at
Brunswick. During the Civil War, Fort Anderson was built on the
ruins of the colonial town. After the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865,
Fort Anderson became the last obstacle to the Union occupation of
the port of Wilmington, further up the Cape Fear River. In this
book, Franda D. Predlow and Jack E. Fryar, Jr. have put together a
beginner's primer that initiates history lovers into the rich past
of one of North Carolina's most significant historic sites.
In 1848 Benson J. Lossing set out on an 8,000 mile journey that
took him to all of the thirteen original colonies and Canada. His
mission was to see and record the stories of the American
Revolution before they were lost to time and the rapid growth of
the still young United States. Two years later, he published his
Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution. The two volume set each
contained over a thousand pages with illustrations from the author.
It chronicles virtually every fight and skirmish of the war, the
stories often gleaned from eyewitnesses or their children. If an
American and a Briton stood on opposite banks of a stream and threw
rocks at each other, chances are it's recounted in Lossing's fine
work. Additionally, Lossing's book serves as a time capsule
travelogue of what America was like in the years just prior to the
Civil War. In this edition, editor Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has
reproduced the chapters of Lossing's work that pertain specifically
to North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Lavishly illustrated
by Lossing's wonderful drawings and with meticulous end notes that
read like a book in themselves, this seminal work is a super
addition to any history collection of the Revolutionary War in the
South, especially as it happened in the Carolinas or Georgia.
This is Volume II of the classic work that tells the story of the
Revolutionary War in North Carolina. In 1854, and again in 1856,
Rev. Eli Washington Caruthers published a compilation of stories,
gathered over the course of many years, that spotlighted the
bravery, sacrifices and viciousness that were a part of life for
North Carolinians during the Revolutionary War. From the actions of
Governor William Tryon in suppressing the Regulator rebellion,
through the first Patriot victory against British forces at Moores
Creek, to the depredations of Tory terror David Fanning and the
climactic battle at Guilford Courthouse, the Old North State was
the scene of some of the most pivotal episodes in the struggle for
American independence. Long out of print, this newly illustrated
edition tells the stories of the men and women who paid for
American liberty with their blood and sacrifice. Caruthers' two
volumes on the Revolutionary War in North Carolina are the stories
of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. They are the
stories of men like John Grady, John Ashe, Andrew Balfour and
countless others who gave their all for the cause of freedom, and
in doing so showed the character that has been a benchmark for
patriotic sacrifice ever since.
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Derelicts (Paperback)
James Sprunt; Edited by Jack E. Fryar Jr
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Discovery Miles 4 310
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From the very beginning, the North Carolina coast has been feard by
mariners because of its treacherous coastline and hidden shoals.The
Cape Fear in particular has haunted the nightmares of those sailors
who have had the bad luck to be on its waters when the whitecaps
churn or the cannons roared. James Sprunt served as purser aboard
the blockade runner Lilian when just a teenager during the American
Civil War. During those years he became inimately acquainted with
the daring men and fast ships that challenged the might of the
Union navy and its blockade of North Carolina and Cape Fear ports.
There were Captains John Newland Maffitt, John Wilkinson, and
Joseph Fry. Jim Billy Craig and others piloted the sleek steamers
carrying the lifeblood of the Confederacy into the port at
Wilmington with steady hands. Characters like Thomas Taylor, Daisy
Lamb and the rebel spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow all played their parts
in the drama that took place off the Cape Fear between 1861 and
1865. There were the men and ships of the U.S. Navy: Porter and
Lee, Cushing and Braine, and all of the enlisted sailors and
marines who stood watch on fog-slicked decks, trying to plug a
bottle with two openings. Too often they were unsuccessful, but if
they could close the Cape Fear and the rest of the North Carolina
coast, they just might end a long and costly war. These are their
stories, told by a man who saw it all happen first-hand.
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