Civil War Charlotte: Last Capital of the Confederacy (North Carolina) (The History Press)
North Carolina's 2010 Historian of the Year, Michael C. Hardy is the author of numerous books, articles and blog posts about the Tar Heels and the Civil War. The books includeNorth Carolina in the Civil War(2011),North Carolina Remembers Gettysburg(2011),The Fifty-eighth North Carolina Troops(2010),Remembering North Carolina's Confederates(2006),The Battle of Hanover Court House(2006) and theThirty-seventh North Carolina Troops(2003). This study of Charlotte is his sixteenth book. Michael lives with his family in western North Carolina, not far from the famous Grandfather Mountain. He spends time traveling about the state sharing his love of mid-nineteenth-century military history.