Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters, and Draft Dodgers

Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt: The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters, and Draft Dodgers. By William T. Auman. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2014. Pp. [viii], 267. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7864-7663-3.)

North Carolina's Civil War history, like that of other southern states, is a complex mixture of internal division, draft resistance, desertion, deprivation, and shifting allegiances. While northern political divisions have been well documented, there is still much to learn about the political activities of dissenters within the Confederacy. This work by the late William T. Auman offers rich and vital information about opposition to the Confederacy in North Carolina's Quaker Belt. Auman has authored several articles on North Carolina's internal war, but this much-anticipated book is an extensive and meticulous effort to understand the nature of dissent in the Quaker Belt. Auman goes beyond simply cataloging...