Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ambrose burnside, american heritage, eastern nc, the confessions of nat turner, william styron on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Born in 1850 on an eastern North Carolina plantation, my father’s mother was the proprietress of two slave girls who were her age, 12 or thereabouts, at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. Many years later, when she was an old lady in her 80s and I was 11 or 12, she told me at [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ambrose burnside, battle of fredericksburg, shelby foote, the civil war: a narrative, unc chapel hill alumni, walker percy on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Work goes slow and well, particularly on little-known events, like Roanoke Island, whose neglect I cannot understand…. Loss of that island lost the Confederacy the whole NC coast, both Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds and Norfolk to the north. “Also it began the career of Ambrose Burnside — so perhaps it was a Southern gain after [...]
