Michael K Brantley

Galvanized

The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of an ordinary North Carolina farmer reluctantly drawn into the Civil War and thrown into a fight for survival that included serving both the Union and the Confederacy, dodging certain death at Gettysburg, surviving a prisoner-of-war camp, and a hometown murder.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781640121225
• ISBN-10: 1640121226
• Artikelnr.: 58016391

Autorenporträt

Michael K. Brantley is the great-great-grandson of Wright Stephen Batchelor. He is an assistant professor of communications at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina, and a former newspaper editor. He has published creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in numerous publications, including the First Day, Dunes Review, Broad River Review, WordRiver, and Broadkill Review. He is the author of Memory Cards: Portraits from a Rural Journey.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Homecoming
2. A Name in a Book
3. The Rip Van Winkle State
4. A New Life in the Face of an Approaching National Storm
5. My Civil War Past
6. Wright’s Enlistment and Early Campaigns
7. Bloodbaths at Gettysburg and Bristoe Station
8. The Home Front
9. POW Life Leads to Being Galvanized . . . and a Great Escape
10. Return and Reconstruction
11. Trouble about a “Yaller” Dog
12. On the Research Trail
13. Statues of Limitations
14. The Future of the Past
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index