Tar Heels in Gray: Life in the 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War (John B. Cameron - CA) instrument and personalities of the Corps’

and personalities of the Corps’ formative early years into a single compelling account

The Civil War had just begun

Although the brunt of Stonewall Jackson’s flank attack fell upon the men of the XI Corps

The book includes a comprehensive geographical guide to French's public work

Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth D

Tar Heels in Gray: Life in the 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War (John B. Cameron - CA) instrument and personalities of the Corps’by John B. Cameron The 30th North Carolina Infantry was involved in most of the major battles in Virginia from the Seven Days through the surrender at Appomattox, and saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War. Two thirds of these men volunteered early; the others were enlisted at the point of a bayonet. Their casualty rate was high, the rate of death from disease was higher and the desertion and AWOL rate was higher still. What was