Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 Contributor(s): Myers, Barton A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807143626 ISBN-13: 9780807143629 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
Dewey: 973.785 |
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 216 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: On December 18, 1863, just north of Elizabeth City in rural northeastern North Carolina, a large group of white Union officers and black enlisted troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward Augustus Wild executed a local citizen for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army incursions along the coast. Daniel Bright, by conflicting accounts either a Confederate soldier home on leave or a deserter and guerrilla fighter guilty of plundering farms and harassing local Unionists, was hanged inside an unfinished postal building. The initial fall was not mortal, and according to one Union soldier's account, Bright suffered a slow death by strangulation, his heart not ceasing to beat for twenty minutes. |