Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments So many people read all or parts of this manuscript at different times and offered valuable comments and criticisms that I fear I cannot thank them all enough. John Inscoe read every chapter minutely and always gave sound advice and extraordinary encouragement; he is both a mentor and a good friend. James C. Cobb, Kathleen Clark, Peter Charles Hoffer, Thomas G. Dyer, Ronald E. Butchart, David Perry, Solomon K. Smith, Bruce Stewart, and Tim Silver each provided direction, suggestions, and constructive criticisms that greatly improved the final product. Jane Turner Censer and Robert Kenzer commented on part of this manuscript when it was a paper delivered at the Southern Historical Association, while George Rable and Susannah Ural did the same for various paper presentations at Society for Military History conferences. I thank Steve Batterson, a gifted writer in another genre, who constantly challenged me to become a better writer. I also thank the two anonymous readers for the Universityof North Carolina Press for offering significant commentary that helped me revise, refine, and polish the manuscript. This book could not have been written without much financial aid to fund many research trips. I would particularly like to thank the University of Georgia (UGA) for a Presidential Fellowship and a Dean’s Award in Humanities; the North Caroliniana Society foran Archie K. Davis Scholarship ; the Southern Historical Collection for a J. Carlyle Sitterson Research Grant; the Colonial Dames for an American History Scholarship; the U.S. Center for Military History for its generous fellowship; Appalachian State University for a University Research Council Grant; the UGA History Department for a Warner-Fite Scholarship, and especially Dr. Robert Pratt, who, as UGA’s History Department chair, granted me several individual travel funds to aid me in my research. The research for this project required me to go many places up and down the eastern seaboard, and I have been fortunate to be helped by numerous xii Acknowledgments friendlyand knowledgeable archivists along theway. I thank the staffs at the American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, Beverly Historical Society, Worcester Historical Museum, Baker Library of the Harvard Business School, National Archives (both in Washington, D.C., and in College Park, Maryland), Library of Congress, U.S. Army Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, North Carolina State Archives, Southern Historical Collection and North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Duke University Special Collections, Emory University Special Collections, East Carolina University Special Collections, and Carteret County Historical Society.The Connecticut Historical Society and the Simsbury Historical Society in Simsbury , Connecticut, greatly assisted me by photocopying and mailing me documents. Certain members of these repositories require special mention. John White, Richard Schrader, and Laura Clark Brown of the Southern Historical Collection have offered invaluable help during my numerous visits over theyears. JasonTomberlin provided mewith companionship and, of course, expert assistance while at the North Carolina State Archives, then later in his new position at UNC’s North Carolina Collection. I wager that no one knows the collections at the North Carolina State Archives better than the recently retired George Stevenson, who was an immense help to me there, as was A. Christopher Meekins, who always cheerfully led me in the right direction, especially when I thought I had encountered dead ends. Keith Longiotti guided me through the North Carolina Collection’s photographs and provided reproductions for this book; Kim Cumberdid great detective work to find some elusive images from the North Carolina State Archives, and David Montgomery provided assistance and a photograph from the Carteret County Historical Society in Morehead City. I am indebted to many friends who allowed me to stay with them, some on multiple occasions and some for weeks at a time, while on these research junkets. Mike and Corliss Bradley graciously hosted my wife and me in Beaufort. Lindy Aldrich generously let me stay two weeks with her in Medford, Massachusetts, during a brutal heat wave in the summer of 2003. Jessica Anders provided lodging at her apartment in Washington, D.C., and much encouragement during my visits. Ms. Beverly Kelchner (“Aunt Bev”) opened her home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to me fora week. Michael Thomas Smith deserves special mention for letting me stay with him at Penn State while traveling on research, for joining me on weekend excur- Acknowledgments xiii sions to Civil War battlefields, for not suing me when I accidentally lined a softball...