R. Matthew Poteat

Henry Toole Clark

Civil War Governor of North Carolina

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor. In addition to his actions as a war leader, it explores Clark's role as a member of the Old South's planter elite and his change in status after the war, his slaveholding business, the constitutional crisis that made him governor, and his career during the years of Reconstruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780786437283
• ISBN-10: 0786437286
• Artikelnr.: 25602071

Autorenporträt

R. Matthew Poteat is an assistant professor of history at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has written articles and reviews for a variety of scholarly journals and online publications, including The North Carolina Historical Review, Shenandoah: the Washington and Lee University Review, and H-Net Civil War.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Joe A. Mobley     
Chronology     
Introduction     
1. Frontier Aristocrats     
2. Coming Into His Own     
3. "We rely upon his honesty"     
4. "North Carolina has been neglected"     
5. "With no man to protect us"     
6. "That Odious Constitution"     
Epilogue     
Appendix A. The James West Clark Letters (1822-1827)     
Appendix B. "On the English Character," Clark's University Oration     
Appendix C. A Poem Describing Members of the North Carolina Senate, 1861
     
Appendix D. Maps     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index