First up from prolific author Michael C. Hardy is Watauga County, North Carolina in the Civil War.
From the publisher: Some say that Watauga County's name comes from a word
meaning "beautiful waters," yet during the Civil War, events in this rugged
western North Carolina region were far from beautiful. Hundreds of the county's
sons left to fight gloriously for the Confederacy. This left the area open to
hordes of plundering rogues from East Tennessee, including George W. Kirk's
notorious band of thieves. While no large-scale battles took place there, Boone
was the scene of the beginning of Stoneman's 1865 raid. The infamous Keith and
Malinda Blalock called Watauga County home, leading escaped POWs and dissidents
from Blowing Rock to Banner Elk. The four brutal years of conflict, followed by
the more brutal Reconstruction, changed the county forever. Join Civil War
historian Michael C. Hardy as he reveals Watauga County's Civil War sacrifices
and heroism, both on and off the battlefield.
Mike Bunn is the executive director of the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the author of Civil War Eufaula
From the publisher: Told here for the first time is the compelling story of the Bluff City during the Civil War. Historian and preservationist Mike Bunn takes you from the pivotal role Eufaula played in Alabama's secession and early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause to its aborted attempt to become the state's capital and its ultimate capture by Union forces, chronicling the effects of the conflict on Eufaulans along the way. Civil War Eufaula draws on a wide range of firsthand individual perspectives, including those of husbands and wives, political leaders, businessmen, journalists, soldiers, students and slaves, to produce a mosaic of observations on shared experiences. Together, they communicate what it was like to live in this riverside trading town during a prolonged and cataclysmic war. It is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times
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