Many thanks to Joyce Harrison, Kelly Chrisman Jacques, Derek Helms, and the rest of the staff at University Press of Kansas. I really enjoyed this project about a little-known chapter of the Gettysburg Campaign - it was a great opportunity to dig deep into some new ground.
My new book, Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond, is available for preorder from University Press of Kansas (and elsewhere).
"Gettysburg’s Southern Front by Hampton Newsome illuminates Union efforts to threaten Richmond while Robert E. Lee was invading Pennsylvania. It does so with commendably thorough research, clear writing, and useful analysis about why and how this sideshow was planned and executed and why its results fell short of what was expected. It is a model study of a small, unknown operation of the Civil War.”" —Earl J. Hess, author of Pickett’s Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg
As we approach the anniversary of the New Bern Expedition and the Kinston Hangings (both covered in detail in The Fight For the Old Nort...
