Research Catalog

Title

Touring the Carolinas' Civil War sites / Clint Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Clint, 1953-

Publication

Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair, Publisher, c2011.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xv, 360 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

History buffs and tourists have been following the signs to famous Civil War sites in the Carolinas for years, among them Fort Fisher in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Fort Sumter off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. However, many of the sites from the states rich Civil War heritage are off the beaten path.

Series Statement

Touring the backroads series

Uniform Title

Touring the backroads series.

Subjects

• Tours
• History
• Guidebooks
• South Carolina > Tours
• North Carolina > Tours
• Historic sites > South Carolina > Guidebooks
• Historic sites > North Carolina > Guidebooks
• South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Battlefields > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

• Guidebooks
• History
• Tours

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-347) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

South Carolina. The war ignites tour, part I : Charleston ; The war ignites tour, part II : Charleston, James Island, Sullivan's Island, Georgetown ; The Sea Islands tour : Hilton Head Island, Parris Island, Beaufort ; The Columbia burns tour : Columbia ; The Sherman's feint tour : Winnsboro, Chester, Union, Fort Mill ; The Sherman's exit tour : Camden, Sumter, Cheraw, Darlington, Florence ; The dead generals and gunpowder tour : Clemson, Pendleton, Abbeville, Cokesbury, Edgefield, Aiken, Augusta, Georgia, Barnwell, Ehrhardt, Orangeburg -- North Carolina. The coastal war tour : Roanoke Island and the Outer Banks ; The Union's base tour : New Bern ; The fall of Fort Macon tour : Morehead City and Beaufort ; The railroad defense tour : Creswell, Elizabeth City, Gatesville, Winton, Jackson, Weldon, Warrenton ; The river cities tour : Halifax, Tarboro, Hamilton, Plymouth, Washington, Chocowinity ; The Foster's raid tour : Kinston, Seven Springs, Goldsboro ; The mountain war tour : Cherokee, Waynesville, Flat Rock, Asheville, Marshall ; The mountain characters tour : Lenoir, Blowing Rock, Linville, Boone, Wilkesboro, Elkin, White Plains, Siloam ; The Ramseur tour : Morganton and Lincolnton ; The Piedmont invasion tour : Danbury, Pilot Mountain, Bethania, Winston-Salem, High Point, Jamestown, Greensboro, Milton ; The Salisbury to Statesville tour : Salisbury, Charlotte, Davidson, Statesville ; The Bentonville battle tour : Fayetteville, Averasboro Battlefield, Bentonville Battlefield ; The Wilmington forts tour : Wilmington, Fort Fisher, Southport, Fort Anderson ; The surrender tour : Raleigh, Hillsborough, Durham.

ISBN

• 9780895874030 (alk. paper)
• 0895874032 (alk. paper)
• 9780895874757 (ebook)
• 089587475X (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011011404

OCLC

• 710816198
• SCSB-10676725

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library