New Book Review in Civil War News: The Fight for the Old North State

"Hampton Newsome's recommended book tells the chain of events - the highs and lows, the bumbling and the courageous, from January to May, 1864 in the Old North State. It's all here."

The August issue of Civil War News (subscription) has a nice review by Joan Wenner of The Fight for the Old North State. As noted in the review, Wenner lives in eastern North Carolina and has visited many of the places discussed in the book.

Among other things, Wenner describes the book as a "detailed, fact-filled journey through joint land and water operations" in North Carolina during 1864 and notes that the "social and political climate in the state is expertly relayed." The piece even includes an 1863 quote that Wenner unearthed in her own work from a judge in Greenville ("North Carolina was not left with enough troops to protect a potato patch"). This Civil War News review follows on the heels of two other recent highly favorable write-ups at Civil War Books and Authors and Random Thoughts on History.