Revenge on the enemy is one thing. Murder of the innocent is another. Two colonels in the Confederate Army show no mercy in Madison County, conducting acts that outrage even their side’s most devoted leaders. (Volume 2, Part 5)
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Just 90 days after he passes his board exam, without any supervision, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood performs perhaps the most difficult act in medicine. (Volume 2, Part 4)
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Thomas Fanning Wood achieves a dream of becoming a doctor much sooner than he could have imagined. there is no time for an apprenticeship, not during the height of war. (Volume 2, Part 3)
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From battlefields to minstrel shows, music becomes a rallying cry of loyalty and motivation. But as deaths and hopelessness mount, the songs convey a haunting sense of loss (Volume 2, Part 2)
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Musicians attached to the 26th North Carolina regiment rouse patriotic spirit, bolster flagging morale in the face of gruesome casualties, and are vital to the regiment’s command and control system. (Volume 2, Part 1)
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The author of Our State‘s Civil War series talks about the series and the war itself in an exclusive interview on WFAE’s Charlotte Talks program.
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The war magnified the best and the worst of the human spirit and bequeathed us a legacy that, a century and a half later, we still ponder. In each installment, author and historian Philip Gerard explores the nuance of the Civil War and its affect on life in North Carolina.
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With millions of young men lost in — or lost to — battle, and economic calamity a relentless opponent, women are forced into new roles: farmers, mill workers, entrepreneurs, even rioters. Daily realities of survival, fear, danger, and desperation are just some of a war’s challenges that transcend class and social status. (Volume 1, Part 8 )
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The war reaches North Carolina, but pacifists in the Old North State secretly oppose the Confederacy. (Volume 1, Part 7)
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At first, soldiers from both North and South return to their regiments in prisoner-of-war exchanges. But when officials end the old system in hopes of diminishing the slaughter, captured soldiers face death in the prison camps. (Volume 1, Part 6)
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