Michael K. Brantley

Galvanized (eBook, PDF)

The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate

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Produktbeschreibung

Galvanized is a thought-provoking work well suited to the contemplative general reader.-Kathryn A. McKee, North Carolina Historical ReviewEvery Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed slaveholding. He also opposed secession and war, yet he fought on both sides of the conflict. During his time in each uniform, Batchelor barely avoided death at the Battle of Gettysburg, was captured twice, and survived one of the war's most infamous prisoner-of-war camps. He escaped and, after walking hundreds of miles, rejoined his comrades at Petersburg, Virginia, just as the Union siege there began. Once the war ended, Batchelor returned on foot to his farm, where he took part in local politics, supported rights for freedmen, and was fatally involved in a bizarre hometown murder.Michael K. Brantley's story of his great-great-grandfather's odyssey blends memory and Civil War history to look at how the complexities of loyalty and personal belief governed one man's actions-and still influence the ways Americans think about the conflict today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640123168
• Artikelnr.: 72308320

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