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29th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
29th Infantry Regiment organized at Camp Patton, Asheville, North
Carolina, in September 1861 and contained men from Cherokee, Yancey, Buncombe, Jackson, Madison, Haywood, and Mitchell counties. The
unit was ordered to East Tennessee and was active in the Cumberland Gap operations. It was assigned to General
Rains' and Ector's Brigade and participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Stones River (commonly referred to as Murfreesboro) to Atlanta. The unit engaged in the defense of Vicksburg and marched with General Hood into Tennessee and ended the war
at Mobile. It lost twenty-two percent of the 250 engaged at Murfreesboro. The
regiment was attached to General Ector's Brigade at Chickamauga and had 110 killed, wounded, or missing. During the Atlanta Campaign, May 18 to September 5, it reported 6 killed, 58 wounded, and 87 missing. At
Allatoona, thirty-nine percent of
the 138 present were disabled. It surrendered in May 1865. The field officers were Colonels William B. Creasman and Robert
B. Vance (brother to Governor Zebulon Baird Vance); Lieutenant Colonels Thomas F. Gardner, James M. Lowry, Bacchus S. Profitt,
and William S. Walker; and Major Ezekiel H. Hampton.
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Advance to:
Recommended
Reading: Confederate Military
History Of North Carolina: North Carolina
In The Civil War, 1861-1865. Description:
The author, Prof. D. H. Hill, Jr., was the son of Lieutenant General Daniel Harvey Hill (North Carolina produced only two lieutenant generals and it was the second highest rank
in the army) and his mother was the sister to General “Stonewall” Jackson’s wife. In Confederate Military History Of North Carolina, Hill discusses North Carolina’s massive task of preparing
and mobilizing for the conflict; the many regiments and battalions recruited from the Old North State; as well as the state's numerous
contributions during the war. Continued below...
During Hill's
Tar
Heel State study, the reader begins with
interesting and thought-provoking statistical data regarding the 125,000 "Old
North State" soldiers that fought
during the course of the war and the 40,000 that perished. Hill advances with the Tar Heels to the first battle at Bethel, through numerous bloody campaigns and battles--including North Carolina’s
contributions at the "High Watermark" at Gettysburg--and concludes with Lee's surrender at
Appomattox.
Recommended Reading: War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla
Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869. Description: One of the most
divided regions of the Confederacy, East Tennessee was the site of fierce Unionist resistance
to secession, Confederate rule, and the Southern war effort. It was also the scene of unrelenting 'irregular,' or guerrilla,
warfare between Union and Confederate supporters, a conflict that permanently altered the region's political, economic, and
social landscape. In this study, Noel Fisher examines the military and political struggle for control of East
Tennessee from the secession crisis through the early years of Reconstruction, focusing particularly on the military
and political significance of the region's irregular activity. Continued below...
Fisher portrays in grim detail the brutality and ruthlessness employed not only by partisan
bands but also by Confederate and Union troops under constant threat of guerrilla attack and government officials frustrated
by unstinting dissent. He demonstrates that, generally, guerrillas were neither the romantic, daring figures of Civil War
legend nor mere thieves and murderers, but rather were ordinary men and women who fought to live under a government of their
choice and to drive out those who did not share their views.
Recommended Reading: North
Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Description:
Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily
involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the
issue of secession, and changes in race and gender relations brought new controversy. Blacks fought for freedom, women sought
greater independence, and their aspirations for change stimulated fierce resistance from more privileged groups. Republicans
and Democrats fought over power during Reconstruction and for decades thereafter disagreed over the meaning of the war and
Reconstruction. Continued below...
With contributions by well-known historians as well as talented younger
scholars, this volume offers new insights into all the key issues of the Civil War era that played out in pronounced ways
in the Tar Heel State. In nine fascinating essays composed specifically for this volume, contributors address themes
such as ambivalent whites, freed blacks, the political establishment, racial hopes and fears, postwar ideology, and North
Carolina women. These issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras were so powerful that they continue to agitate North
Carolinians today.
Recommended Viewing: The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns. Review: The
Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns is the most successful public-television miniseries in American history. The 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation,
reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When
people describe documentaries using the "Ken Burns approach," its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters
and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with
still images (photographs, paintings, maps, prints), anecdotal interviews, and romantic musical scores taken from the era
he depicts. Continued below...
The Civil War uses all of these devices to evoke atmosphere and resurrect an event that many knew
only from stale history books. While Burns is a historian, a researcher, and a documentarian, he's above all a gifted storyteller,
and it's his narrative powers that give this chronicle its beauty, overwhelming emotion, and devastating horror. Using the
words of old letters, eloquently read by a variety of celebrities, the stories of historians like Shelby Foote and rare, stained
photos, Burns allows us not only to relearn and finally understand our history, but also to feel and experience it. "Hailed
as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling." "[S]hould be a requirement for every
student."
Recommended Reading: The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (444
pages) (Louisiana State University Press) (Updated edition: November 2007) Description: The
Life of Johnny Reb does not merely describe the battles and skirmishes fought by the Confederate foot soldier. Rather,
it provides an intimate history of a soldier's daily life--the songs he sang, the foods he ate, the hopes and fears he experienced,
the reasons he fought. Wiley examined countless letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and official records to construct this
frequently poignant, sometimes humorous account of the life of Johnny Reb. In a new foreword for this updated edition, Civil
War expert James I. Robertson, Jr., explores the exemplary career of Bell Irvin Wiley, who championed the common folk, whom
he saw as ensnared in the great conflict of the 1860s. Continued below...
About Johnny Reb:
"A Civil War classic."--Florida Historical Quarterly
"This book deserves to be on the shelf of every Civil War modeler and enthusiast."--Model
Retailer
"[Wiley] has painted with skill a picture of the life of the Confederate
private. . . . It is a picture that is not only by far the most complete we have ever had but perhaps the best of its kind
we ever shall have."--Saturday Review of Literature
Sources: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Walter Clark,
Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-1865; National Park Service: American
Civil War; National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors System; Weymouth T. Jordan and Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops,
1861-1865; and D. H. Hill, Confederate Military History Of North Carolina: North Carolina In The Civil War, 1861-1865.
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