Cape Fear Confederates
Subtitle: the 18th North Carolina regiment in the Civil War
By: James Gillispie
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780786448470
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 18th; Campaigns; Registers; Soldiers; Regimental histories; History
Description: "The 18th North Carolina was a part of two famous Confederate military machines. This history chronicles the regiment's exploits from its origins through combat to its surrender at Appomattox Court House. A roster of those surrendering officers and enlisted men and brief biographical sketches of those who fought with the regiment complete this account"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The 18th North Carolina's road to war; title: Secession and the formation of the 18th North Carolina; title: Seeing the elephant: Hanover Court House, Gaines's Mill, and Frayser's Farm; title: Stonewall salutes the 18th: the Battle of Cedar Mountain; title: Battling the "miscreant" Pope: Second Manassas and Chantilly/Ox Hill; title: More hard marching: the Maryland Campaign; title: A difficult way to end a year: fall and winter of 1862; title: The regiment loses its colonel and its colors: the bloody Battle of Chancellorsville; title: Difficult days: the Gettysburg Campaign and the winter of 1863-1864; title: Desperate and relentless fighting: Wilderness to Cold Harbor; title: Petersburg: the final campaign.