Blood and War at My Doorstep

Between These Pages The Reader Will Learn That North Carolina Citizens Did Not Idly Standby As Their Soldiers Marched Off To War. The Women Worked Themselves Into Patrioticexhaustion Through Aid Societies. Civilians With Different Means Of Support From Thelower Class To The Plantation Mistress Wrote The Governor Complaining Of HoardingSpeculation The Tithe Bushwhackers Unionism Conscription And Exemptions.Never Before Had So Many Died Due To Guerilla Warfare. Unknown Before Starvingwomen With Weapons Stormed The Merchant Or Warehouses In Search For Food. Othersturned To Smuggling Spying Or Natures Oldest Profession.Information From Period Newspapers As Well As Mostly Unpublished Letters Tell Their Stories.