Author : R. Matthew Poteat
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0786437286
Book Description
This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor. In addition to his actions as a war leader, it explores Clark's role as a member of the Old South's planter elite and his change in status after the war, his slaveholding business, the constitutional crisis that made him governor, and his career during the years of Reconstruction.