Henry Toole Clark
Subtitle: Civil War governor of North Carolina
By: R. Matthew Poteat ; foreword by Joe A. Mobley.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780786437283
Subjects: Clark, Henry T. -- 1808-1874; Governors -- North Carolina -- Biography; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865; North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865; North Carolina -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor. It explores Clark's role as a member of the Old South's planter elite and his change in status after the war, his slaveholding business, the constitutional crisis that made him governor, and his career during years of Reconstruction"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Frontier aristocrats; title: Coming into his own; title: "We rely upon his honesty"; title: "North Carolina has been neglected"; title: "With no man to protect us"; title: "That odious constitution".