Note from Moderator: I recently visited Richard Phillips’s blog, “N.C. Buffalo Soldiers,” and wanted to share it with readers Vikki Bynum http://ncbuffaloes.wordpress.com/1st-and-2nd-north-carolina-union-veterans/ N.C. Buffalo Soldiers: 1st and 2nd North Carolina Union Volunteers […]
The Inner Civil War in Montgomery Co., N.C.
By Victoria Bynum. Quoted passages are from Thoburn Freeman, grandson of Sarah Ann Hulin Moore and great-nephew of Caroline Moore Hulin. Determining what made fierce Unionists of some southerners is not always easy. Was […]
Where is Welch Landing located?
A few days ago, one of my new Myspace friends, Sheri Welch Hilbun, expressed an interest in knowing more about her Welch ancestors. Specifically, she asked me if I knew where Welch […]
Women Confront Confederate Forces in North Carolina
The full title of this essay, which will appear in my next book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War, is “Occupied At Home: Women Confront Confederate Forces in North Carolina’s Quaker Belt.” […]
Guerrilla Wars: Plain Folk Resistance to the Confederacy
This essay from my upcoming Long Shadow of the Civil War profiles the leaders of three guerrilla bands from three regions of the South known for Unionism and resistance to the Confederacy: the Randolph County area of […]
Renegade Women
I first discovered Southern Unionists while doing research on women in pre-Civil War North Carolina. Women, I soon realized, were central to the ties of kinship that bound together people who opposed the new Confederate nation. When […]
Rebels Against the Confederacy: Mississippi’s Free State of Jones
By Vikki Bynum When I decided in 1976 to pursue a degree in U.S. history, studying the American Civil War was the furthest thought from my mind. All that changed, however, during […]
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