Tar Heels in Gray: Life in the 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War (John B. Cameron - CA) averasboro Drawing on President Bush’s personal

Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries

a failed effort to hold the gaps through South Mountain

many of which were used in the film

Alexandra Sadler must live without her new husband as he goes off to fight for the Union

and that the probabilities were that the regiment I had enlisted in would be ordered home before I could get to it

Tar Heels in Gray: Life in the 30th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War (John B. Cameron - CA) averasboro Drawing on President Bush’s personalby John B. Cameron The 30th North Carolina Infantry was involved in most of the major battles in Virginia from the Seven Days through the surrender at Appomattox, and saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the American Civil War. Two thirds of these men volunteered early; the others were enlisted at the point of a bayonet. Their casualty rate was high, the rate of death from disease was higher and the desertion and AWOL rate was higher still. What was