The Old North State At War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas

By Mark Anderson Moore with Jessica A. Bandel and Michael Hill

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One hundred highly-detailed maps, many spanning a full 17” x 11” page, were created for this landmark study of the impact of the Civil War in the Tar Heel State. Every significant Civil War military engagement in the state is highlighted in this lavishly illustrated, full-color, 200-page, large-size (17” x 11”) hardbound volume.

The North Carolina Civil War Atlas is a comprehensive full-color study of the impact of the war on the Tar Heel State, incorporating 99 original maps. The only state-level atlas of its kind, the book is a sesquicentennial project of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. The large format (11” x 17”) volume highlights every significant military engagement and analyzes the war’s social, economic, and political consequences through tables, charts, and text. Manuscripts, election returns, newspapers, census records, and other sources were used to prepare the narrative and compile the tabulated data.

From the capture of Hatteras Island and the Burnside Expedition through the fall of Fort Fisher and the Carolinas Campaign of 1865, the state’s Civil War history is examined in a new light. Groundbreaking information includes updated casualty statistics, General Sherman’s route of march, and the role of U.S. Colored Troops. Historic road networks are based on wartime maps created by engineer Jeremy F. Gilmer matched against the earliest modern road surveys. For areas not covered by Gilmer, a variety of primary manuscript map resources were used from the State Archives and the University of North Carolina. Thanks to GIS technology, wartime places and landmarks, identified with their contemporary spellings, are presented in their correct geospatial orientation. Rare photographs complete the package.


SHERMAN'S MARCH THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA

The book features detailed maps showing the route of march of Gen. William T. Sherman’s Union army through North Carolina in the spring of 1865 (and Confederate counter maneuvers). Historic road networks and wartime communities are presented with unprecedented spatial accuracy:

Incursion into North Carolina

Route from Cheraw, S.C., to Fayetteville, N.C.

Wartime city of Fayetteville

Cox’s March from New Bern toward Kinston

Battle of Wyse Fork—(3 maps)

Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads—(2 maps)

Battle of Averasboro—(3 maps)

Route from Fayetteville toward Goldsboro and Bentonville

Cox’s March from New Bern to Goldsboro

Battle of Bentonville—(6 maps)

Route from Goldsboro to Raleigh

Occupation of Raleigh and Vicinity

Johnston’s Surrender near Durham Station.

FULL LIST OF MAPS:

Stagville Plantation (plan)

Somerset Place Plantation (plan)

United States on the Eve of the Civil War

Fall of Hatteras Island, July-December 1861

Burnside Expedition, February-July 1862

Battle of Roanoke Island, February 7-8, 1862—(2 maps)

Battle of New Bern, March 14, 1862

Engagement at South Mills, April 19, 1862 (with inset)

Fort Macon (structure)

Siege of Fort Macon, February 23-April 26, 1862

Foster’s Raid, December 11-20, 1862

Skirmishes at Southwest Creek, December 13-14, 1862

Engagement at Kinston, December 14, 1862

Engagement at White Hall, December 16, 1862

Engagement at Goldsboro Bridge, December 17, 1862—(2 maps)

Raids and Counterattacks, August-December 1862

Congressional Districts (Congress of the Confederate States), 1861-1865

Raids and Counterattacks, January-June 1863

Raids and Counterattacks, July-December 1863

Expedition against New Bern, March 8-16, 1863

Potter’s Raid, July 18-14, 1863

Raid on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, July 3-7, 1863

Siege of Washington, March 30-April 20, 1963—(2 maps)

Raid on Weldon, July 25-August 3, 1863

Wild’s African Brigade, December 5-24, 1863

Bushwhackers and the Union Military Threat from East Tennessee, February 1862-December 1863

Divided Allegiances, February-December 1863

Confederate Resurgence, January-May 1864

Pickett’s Attack on New Bern, January 30-February 3, 1864

Defenses of New Bern (Union), 1864

Martin’s Attack on the Atlantic & N.C. Railroad, January 30-February 4, 1864

Battle of Plymouth, April 17-20, 1864 (including CSS Albemarle ironclad warship, structure)

Naval Engagement in the Roanoke River, April 19, 1864

Union Evacuation of Washington and Hoke’s Advance on New Bern, April 26-May 8, 1864

Naval Engagement in Albemarle Sound, May 5, 1864

Union Reoccupation, June-December 1864

Union Recapture of Plymouth, October 27-31, 1864

Joint Union Expedition to Rainbow Bluff, December 9-21, 1864

Fort Branch (structure and area)

Kirk’s Raid on Camp Vance, June 13-July 15, 1864—(2 maps)

Conventional Operations and Guerrilla Warfare, 1864

CSS Neuse, ironclad warship (structure)

Union Blockade, 1864-1865 (with inset)

City of Wilmington

Cape Fear Estuary and Approaches to Wilmington

Battery Buchanan and Fort Fisher Cross Sections (structure)

Fort Fisher (structure)

Fort Holmes (structure)

Fort Campbell and Battery Shaw (structures)

Fort Caswell (structure)

Fort Johnston/Pender (structure)

Fort Anderson (structure)

Powder Vessel—USS Louisiana (structure)

Joint Expedition to Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865

Fort Fisher, First Attack, December 24-25, 1864—(2 maps)

Fort Fisher, Second Attack, January 13-15, 1865—(4 maps)

Wilmington Campaign, February 11-22, 1865

Engagement at Sugar Loaf, February 11, 1865

Engagement at Fort Anderson, February 14-19, 1865

Bombardment of Fort Anderson, February 18, 1865

Engagements at Town Creek and Forks Road, February 19-21, 1865

Bombardment of River Batteries below Wilmington, February 20-21, 1865 (with 2 insets)

Fall of Wilmington, February 22, 1865

Sherman’s March through South Carolina, February 1-March 7, 1865

Incursion into North Carolina, February 26-March 6, 1865

Sherman’s March to Fayetteville, March 6-11, 1865

City of Fayetteville, March 11-14, 1865

Cox’s March from New Bern toward Goldsboro, March 6-7, 1965

Battle of Wyse Fork, March 8-10, 1865—(3 maps)

Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, March 10, 1865—(2 maps)

Battle of Averasboro, March 15-16, 1865—(3 maps with 2 insets)

Sherman’s March from Fayetteville toward Goldsboro, March 13-21, 1865

Cox’s March to Goldsboro, March 1-21, 1865

Battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865—(6 maps with 1 inset)

Stoneman’s Raid, March 28-April 27, 1865

Engagement at Grant’s Creek, April 12, 1865

Final Actions in the Western Highlands, February-May 1865

Salisbury Prison (plan)

Sherman’s March from Goldsboro to Raleigh, April 10-14, 1865

Union Occupation of Raleigh, April 13-30, 1865

Bennett Place (plan)

Johnston’s Surrender near Durham Station, April 14-26, 1865


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Maps

Foreword — by Craig Symonds

Introduction

Chapter 1: “To Arms! To Arms!”: North Carolina and the Coming of the War
     Road to Secession
          Plantation Life: Stagville and Somerset
     Mobilizing and Outfitting the Troops
          Manufacturing for War

Chapter 2: “The Old North State Forever”: North Carolina at War, 1861-1862
     Native Sons Serving outside North Carolina
          Henry Lawson Wyatt
     The Home Front, 1861–1862
     Invasion of the Coast, July 1861– July 1862
     The Burnside Expedition
          One Soldier’s Lasting Memory of Battle Injuries 
          Commendation for Courage
          Seeking Freedom: Vincent Colyer and Refugee Slaves
     Early Raids on the Eastern Interior, August–December 1862

Chapter 3: “With My Face to the Enemy”: North Carolina and the High Tide of the Confederacy, 1863
     Native Sons Serving outside North Carolina
          The Eighteenth North Carolina Infantry and the Death of Stonewall Jackson
          A Dying Son’s Last Words: Col. Isaac E. Avery at Gettysburg
     The Home Front, 1863
          The Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island
     Occupation and Containment
          D. H. Hill: Beleaguered Commander
          Governor Evades Capture 
          Wild’s African Brigade
     Unionist Dissent: The War in the Western Highlands
          Shelton Laurel Massacre
          Hoke Hunts Deserters
     North Carolina’s Union Volunteers

Chapter 4: “This Cruel, Cruel War”: Dissent and Destruction, 1864
     Native Sons Serving outside North Carolina
          Native Sons in Blue: Olustee and New Market Heights
     The Home Front, 1864
          The Bread Riots
          Quakers and Conscientious Objection to the War
     Resistance in the East, 1864
          Gen. James G. Martin
          Brig. Gen. Collett Leventhorpe
     Guerillas and Bushwhackers: The War in the Western Highlands, 1864
          Thomas’s Legion

Chapter 5: Running the Blockade: The War at Sea
     Native Sons in Confederate Naval Service
          John Newland Maffitt
          Capt. James I. Waddell and the CSS Shenandoah
     Wartime Wilmington
     Confederate Defenses of the Cape Fear

Chapter 6: “One Final Push”: Hard Fighting, 1865
     Native Sons Serving outside North Carolina
     The Home Front, 1865
     First Expedition against Fort Fisher, December 1864
     Second Expedition against Fort Fisher, January 1865
          Fort Fisher: Then and Now
     The Fall of Wilmington, January–February 1865
          Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
     Sherman’s March: The Road to Bentonville, February–March 1865
          Gen. William T. Sherman
     The Battle of Bentonville, March 19–21, 1865
          Bentonville: Then and Now
     Stoneman’s Raid and the End of the War in Western North Carolina
          Gen. George Stoneman
          Salisbury Prison
     Sherman’s Final Campaign: Goldsboro to Raleigh, April 1865
     Surrender, April–May 1865

Chapter 7: “To Further the Great Ends of Peace”: Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory
     The War’s Lasting Legacies
     Freedom
          Parker Robbins
     Sacrifice
          North Carolina’s Civil War Dead
     Memory

Selected Bibliography

Index