Executing Daniel Bright Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence.pdf

Author(s): Barton A. Myers
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date: 2009-10-01 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN /ASIN: 0807134759
Pages: 193 OCR: Quality: ISBN13: 9780807134757

Until now, Civil War scholars considered Bright and the Union incursion that culminated in his gruesome death as only a historical footnote. In Executing Daniel Bright, Barton A. Myers uses these events as a window into the wider experience of local guerrilla conflict in North Carolina's Great Dismal Swamp region and as a representation of a larger pattern of retaliatory executions and murders meant to coerce appropriate political loyalty and military conduct on the Confederate homefront.