Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina
"A first-rate analysis of civil-military relations in eastern North Carolina and their subsequent impact on southerners' loyalties."--Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians"Browning does an excellent job of allowing soldiers, white southern men and women, freedmen, and members of northern benevolent societies to tell their own stories."--South Carolina Historical Magazine"Browning's work is an important study of the effects of Union occupation on myriad different social groups. . . . [He] should be commended for a well thought out and judicious account of the experience of Carteret and Craven counties during the American Civil War."--American Nineteenth Century History"[A] well written, carefully researched effort that explains how eastern North Carolina's rebellion began rather than ended in 1865."--Tennessee Historical Review"[A] well-researched and lively treatment of two coastal North Carolina counties."--Journal of Southern History"Browning skillfully weaves together stories of persons in the Carteret-Craven region to illustrate the shifting loyalties."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"A welcome addition to the literature on the occupied South during the Civil War."--Army History"An elegantly written and persuasive narrative."--The Historian"An excellent study that deserves a wide reading audience. It opens a window on a little-studied aspect of the Civil War."--Blue & Gray Magazine"[A] valuable study."--American Historical Review"A well-conceived and well-executed microstudy."--Journal of American History"Radically challenge[s] existing interpretations of the Civil War in eastern North Carolina." --The North Carolina Historical Review"Browning's explorations uncover a treasure trove of information."--America's Civil War"This study is a unique look into a so-called Unionist area in a Confederate state under Union occupation….Highly recommended to Civil War enthusiasts."--NewsOK.com"Browning provides useful insights into the nature of southern unionism and what directions it took under the considerable strain of long term occupation and post war reevaluation."--Civil War Books and Authors