Edited by John R. Barden

Contains forty-four Civil War letters of Henry A. Clapp, a member of Company F, 44th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, which was part of the Federal army that occupied New Bern and much of eastern North Carolina.

Clapp's letters to family and friends describe life in the Union army and conditions among wartime North Carolinians, including planters, poor whites, and African Americans.

Includes a bibliography and twenty-three maps and illustrations.

Paperbound. Pp. xxxvii, 252. Illus. Index. (1998) (s)