The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina. by Spencer, Cornelia Phillips - 1866

New York: Watchman Publishing Company, 1866. First edition of the influential social historian's work on the position of North Carolina in the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. During the American Civil War, North Carolina joined the Confederacy with some reluctance, mainly due to the presence of Unionist sentiment within the state. Throughout the war, North Carolina remained a divided state. The population within the Appalachian Mountains in the western part of the state contained large pockets of Unionism. Even so, North Carolina would help contribute a significant amount of troops to the Confederacy, and channel many vital supplies through the major port of Wilmington, in defiance of the Union blockade.