Record #:

6415

Author(s):

Johnson, Clint

Abstract:

No major Civil War battles were fought in the North Carolina mountains; however, many mountain people did declare either for the North or the South, and evidence remains of the encounters that took placed there. Johnson recounts several of these, including stories of a Confederate Cherokee regiment led by a crazed white man, women bushwhackers who posed as men to join the army, and Union Captain Miles Keough, who captured the town of Boone and later died with Custer at the Little Big Horn.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 9, Feb 2004, p68-70, 72, 75, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865