Hampton Newsome's splendid account of the fighting along North Carolina's coast in the spring of 1864 is with a prospective publisher. This excellent book depicts Pickett's lunge at New Bern in January, and Hoke's strike at Plymouth, Little Washington and New Bern in April and May. It has Hampton's usual excellent maps. Exhaustive research covers the political, economic, and sociological implications of the campaign. This book has everything: land battles, actions on water, the ironclads CSS Albemarle and Neuse--even a Federal armored train. I can hardly wait for it to go on sale..
Hampton is the author of Richmond Must Fall, a history of the October 1864 fighting around Petersburg. With John Selby and myself, he edited Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans. Hampton drew the maps for my Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864 and for my forthcoming Petersburg Regiment. We share the same birthday but we are not Siamese twins because I was born a few years earlier.
Hampton is the author of Richmond Must Fall, a history of the October 1864 fighting around Petersburg. With John Selby and myself, he edited Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans. Hampton drew the maps for my Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864 and for my forthcoming Petersburg Regiment. We share the same birthday but we are not Siamese twins because I was born a few years earlier.
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