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JOIN US ON ZOOM as Mr. Newsome speaks about Confederate efforts to recapture key coastal positions in North Carolina during the first half of 1864. In launching these operations, Confederate leaders sought to secure vital supplies for Robert E. Lee’s army and dampen a growing peace movement in the state. The ensuing events - the New Bern Expedition, the Battle of Plymouth, among others -  involved complex joint army and navy operations, daring raids, and deadly ironclads.

Hampton Newsome is the author of The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864 (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2019), which was named the Emerging Civil War Book of the Year, the Richard Barksdale Harwell Award winner, and the Civil War Books and Authors Best Book of the Year. Mr. Newsome is also the author of Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 (Kent State Univ. Press, 2013), which was recognized as a best book of 2013 by Civil War Monitor magazine. He also co-edited Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans (UVA Press: 2012) with John Selby and John Horn. 

His book is available from University Press of Kansas: Click this link