When the British Came: Revolution in the Cape Fear,
1765-1782
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780981460352 Hardcover $39.95/ 9780981460376 Paperback $29.95 • 354 pages)
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Just in time for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the story of a region seeped in conflict...
North Carolina played a pivotal role in the struggle for American independence, and the Cape Fear region was ground zero in the rebellion against British rule. Historians say the famous battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in the North, but the decisive battles were fought in the South. The Cape Fear region was a central theater of that fight for American independence. The Stamp Act Crisis... The Regulator Rebellion... The Battle at Moores Creek Bridge... The British Occupation of Wilmington... A vicious civil war was fought between neighbors, families, Continentals, and Redcoats in southeastern North Carolina, from Fayetteville to Wilmington, and everywhere in between. This is the story of that fight.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
.Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than thirty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
.Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than thirty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
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The Bestselling Collection of Cape Fear Ghost Stories!
Haunted Wilmington by Brooks Preik (9780978624828 • 161 pages • $12.95)
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The first, and arguably still the best, collection of spooky stories from Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear, Brooks Preik's classic Haunted Wilmington has been a fan favorite ever since it was first introduced by Banks Channel Books in 1995. Now Dram Tree Books is pleased to announce that we are bringing it back! With more than 15 spooky tales of ghosts and hauntings in Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear, this collection is sure to send shivers up your spine. Look for it by the end of March 2022!
Stories Include: • Spirit from the Sea • A Voice from the Grave • The Thespian Spirits of Thalian Hall • Mystery at Maco Station • The Return of the Harpist •The Night Mama Struggled with the Ghost • The Playful Ghost of the Price-Gause House • Captain Harper and the Phantoms of the River • The Last Battle • The Grieving Ghost of Bald Head Island plus many more! To Order Haunted Wilmington:
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The Day I Lost President Ford: Memoirs of a Born-and-Bred Carolina Tar Heel by Wilbur D. Jones, Jr. (9780984490028 • 6"x9" • 277 pages • $19.95)
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Native North Carolinian and UNC graduate Captain Wilbur Jones grew up in World War II Wilmington, incubating a lifelong devotion to country, the military, and history, launching rewarding careers in the Navy and federal service...assisting Presidents Nixon and Ford and 2 Congressmen...sports officiating...writing and speaking...and preserving WWII history. This lively, colorful, entertaining book about a multi-dimensional working-life's journey informs through character vignettes, storytelling, and lesser-known facts (inside the 1972 and 1976 presidential campaigns, and advancing Ford's trips). Attributing successfully reaching "mountaintops" to parental foundations in core values, commitment, and the credo: Never Give Up!, Jones recognizes his failures and foibles, often jesting. Achievements include: UNC varsity lacrosse and soccer player; 28 years of Navy duty, 41 with the Defense Department; author of 19 books; professional NCAA baseball umpire and basketball referee; leader of national WWII history preservation project; global WWII battlefield tour leader; director of Nixon's New Hampshire re-election campaign; and Ford's White House assistant and advance representative. Jones avoids esoteric world views, palace intrigue, overreaching judgments, and current national issues or politics. Let's just make this an enjoyable read, he says.
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Charles Towne on the Cape Fear: The Rise and Fall of the First Barbadian Settlement in Carolina
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780984490035 • 6”x9” • 238 pages • $19.95)
While South Carolina has the most famous Charles Towne in Carolina, the first one was along the banks of the Cape Fear River. Between 1664-1667, Barbadians led by John Vassall and Puritans from Massachusetts established plantations stretching as far as sixty miles along what was then called the Charles River, until neglect by the Lords Proprietors, distractions on the world stage, and competing settlement doomed the efforts of the hundreds of souls who worked to build the first English outpost below the Albemarle. This is their story.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
.Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
.Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
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The Big Book of the Cape Fear River
by Claude V. Jackson III; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (9780981460314 • 8.5”x 11” • 421 pages • $39.95)
In 1993 and 1994, the Underwater Archaeology Unit of the N.C. Department of Archives & History joined with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers to conduct a historical survey of the Cape Fear River. The scientists and historians involved were making a concerted effort to locate and identify the hundreds of historically relevent sites along North Carolina’s only river with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. The river’s history is impressive. From the days of the Spanish explorers, to hardy settlers from England, Barbados and New England, to the great planters, shipbuilders, soldiers and civilians whose lives and work forged the Cape Fear’s identity, the roughly thirty-eight mile stretch from Old Inlet to just above Wilmington has seen some of North Carolina’s richest history. This book, published here for general audiences for the first time, is a treasure trove of information about the fascinating history of North Carolina’s most historic river. With more than 250 historic photos and illustrations, as well as locator maps that identify where all of this great history happened, lovers of Cape Fear and North Carolina’s heritage will cherish this book!
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Chronicles of the Cape Fear River: 1660-1916
by James Sprunt (0972324054 • 6”x 9” • 732 pages • 34.95)
There was a time when the Cape Fear was North Carolina’s frontier. The Cape Fear has seen pirates and Indian wars, redcoats and patriot militias, and at least two civil wars. It has sired heroes and villains, as well as statesmen and scholars. Among them was James Sprunt, who as a young man braved the Union blockade as a purser aboard a sleek blockade runner. In later life Sprunt became a wealthy businessman whose cotton exporting business was at one time the largest in the world. He owned Orton Plantation, overlooking the river that played such a central role in his life. A philanthropist whose love of the Cape Fear ran as deep as his bones, James Sprunt also became recognized as one of North Carolina’s most respected historians. In what many consider to be the crowning achievement of a distinguished career, Chronicles of the Cape Fear River: 1660 - 1916 is the momumental histort of southeastern North Carolina that is the starting point for all reseaarch into the Cape Fear’s varied and colorful past. It is the one book that all lovers of Cape Fear history must have on their bookshelves, and that all historical researchers should turn to when exploring what came before us at the place where the river meets the sea.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James Sprunt was a cotton exporter, historian, and philanthropist who arrived in Wilmington, N.C. from his native Glasgow, Scotland in 1854. At age 14 he secured a berth as purser aboard ships running the Union blockade off Cape Fear during the Civil War. After the war, Sprunt's firm became the largest cotton exporters in the world. Sprunt owned Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and authored four books of N.C. history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James Sprunt was a cotton exporter, historian, and philanthropist who arrived in Wilmington, N.C. from his native Glasgow, Scotland in 1854. At age 14 he secured a berth as purser aboard ships running the Union blockade off Cape Fear during the Civil War. After the war, Sprunt's firm became the largest cotton exporters in the world. Sprunt owned Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and authored four books of N.C. history.
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Derelicts by James Sprunt (0972324097 • 6”x 9” • 188 pages • $17.95)
From the very beginning, the North Carolina coast has been feared by mariners because of its treacherous coastline and hidden shoals. The Cape Fear in particular has haunted the nightmares of those sailors who have had the bad luck to be on its waters when the whitecaps churn or when the cannons roared. James Sprunt served as purser aboard the blockade runner Lilian when just a teenager, during the American Civil War. During those years he became intimately acquainted with the daring men and fast ships that challenged the might of the Union navy and its blockade of North Carolina and Cape Fear ports. There were Captains John Newland Maffitt, John Wilkinson and Joseph Fry. Jim Billy Craig and others piloted the sleek steamers carrying the life blood of the Confederacy into the port at Wilmington with steady hands. Characters like Thomas Taylor, Daisy Lamb, and the Reb spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow all played parts in the drama that took place off the Cape Fear between 1861 and 1865. And then there were the men and ships of the U.S. Navy: Porter and Lee, Cushing and Braine, and all the enlisted sailors and Marines who stood watch on fog-slick decks, trying to plug a bottle with two openings. Too often they were unsuccessful, but if they could close the Cape Fear and the rest of the North Carolina coast, they just might end a long and costly war. These are their stories, told by a man who saw it all happen first-hand.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James Sprunt was a cotton exporter, historian, and philanthropist who arrived in Wilmington, N.C. from his native Glasgow, Scotland in 1854. At age 14 he secured a berth as purser aboard ships running the Union blockade off Cape Fear during the Civil War. After the war, Sprunt's firm became the largest cotton exporters in the world. Sprunt owned Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and authored four books of N.C. history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James Sprunt was a cotton exporter, historian, and philanthropist who arrived in Wilmington, N.C. from his native Glasgow, Scotland in 1854. At age 14 he secured a berth as purser aboard ships running the Union blockade off Cape Fear during the Civil War. After the war, Sprunt's firm became the largest cotton exporters in the world. Sprunt owned Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and authored four books of N.C. history.
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A James Sprunt Reader (two James Sprunt books, his ghost story "A Colonial Apparition, plus Dr. John Hampden Hill's essay, "Stories of the Old Plantations"!)
by James Sprunt (9780981460369 • 6”x 9” • 311 pages • $24.00)
Nobody tells the story of the Cape Fear the way James Sprunt does......Blockade runner, businessman, historian and philanthropist - James Sprunt led a remarkable life. When he made his home along the brown waters of the Cape Fear in southeastern North Carolina, he fell in love with the rich history of the only river in the state with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. That geographical fact made the Cape Fear and the towns that lined its banks the scenes of some of North Carolina’s most dramatic moments. James Sprunt witnessed much of that exciting history himself, and knew many of the characters who participated in those events. The things that happened before he came along, Sprunt learned of and embraced through his love of history. That love is evident in the pages of the books he wrote about the Cape Fear’s colorful past. When you read a James Sprunt book, you can’t help but feel the devotion he had to the people and places along his beloved river. It is our pleasure to bring together for the first time in one volume, two of James Sprunt’s most popular but hard to find books about the river he loved. We’ve also included a delightful ghost story by Sprunt that teaches about the Cape Fear’s colonial past while chilling your blood, and an essay by Dr. John Hampden Hill that delves into the history of the many plantations that once lined the Cape Fear. Nobody does Cape Fear history the way James Sprunt did!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James Sprunt was a cotton exporter, historian, and philanthropist who arrived in Wilmington, N.C. from his native Glasgow, Scotland in 1854. At age 14 he secured a berth as purser aboard ships running the Union blockade off Cape Fear during the Civil War. After the war, Sprunt's firm became the largest cotton exporters in the world. Sprunt owned Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and authored four books of N.C. history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James Sprunt was a cotton exporter, historian, and philanthropist who arrived in Wilmington, N.C. from his native Glasgow, Scotland in 1854. At age 14 he secured a berth as purser aboard ships running the Union blockade off Cape Fear during the Civil War. After the war, Sprunt's firm became the largest cotton exporters in the world. Sprunt owned Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, N.C., and authored four books of N.C. history.
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A History Lover's Guide to Wilmington &
The Lower Cape Fear
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (0972324011 • 8.5”x 11” • 137 pages • $17.95)
This book has been a bestseller ever since we first introduced it! For over four centuries, the Coastal Carolinas have been the scene of some of history’s most colorful and exciting events. Now, with one easy-to-use guide, you can see the best historical tourism stops along the southern North Carolina coast, learn about what makes them worth seeing, see which ones charge an admission, check out their hours of operation, find out what amenities are available, and see over 300 illustrations and photos of not just how thye look today, but also how they looked in the distant past. This is the one book that pares down all the info you need to satisfy your craving for local historical tourism from Topsail Island to the South Carolina border! Covering the five southern-most coastal counties (New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, Columbus, and Bladen), this book is super for history buffs, for new residents of the Carolina coast, or for tourists and beachgoers looking for something fun on those days when the sun doesn’t shine!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
The Coastal Chronicles Vol. I
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (0972324003 • 6”x 9” • 201 pages • $17.95)
Over more than four centuries, the coastal Carolinas have seen just about everything: Pirates, British redcoats, patriot militiamen, yellow fever, killer storms, blockade runners and mighty forts. We’ve been home to heroes and villains, spies and signers of the Declaration of Independence. We’ve fought Indian wars and built stately plantations. Perhaps in no other part of the country is the history of a people such a part of the regional identity. In the pages of Coastal Chronicles magazine, locals and tourists alike were treated to the stories that make up the rich historical fabric of the Carolina coast. Historically accurate, but told as a storyteller would, the tales in The Coastal Chronicles Volume I and Volume II are delightful stories that educate and entertain at the same time. Native coastal Carolinians read it because who we were is a big part of who we are. Newcomers read it to help in the assimilation process when they choose to make their homes by the Carolina shore. Visitors read it because it tells the stories they love in vivid, compelling detail. Teachers use it to teach local history. Dram Tree Books is pleased to offer in one volume these collection of stories for those who want to keep and preserve the history of one of the country’s most historic coastlines.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
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The Coastal Chronicles Vol. II
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (097232402X • 6”x 9” • 196 pages • $17.95)
In The Coastal Chronicles Volume I, lovers of Cape Fear and coastal North Carolina history were treated to a collection of true, factually accurate stories that entertained as well as educated and informed. In this latest volume, that tradition continues. The Coastal Chronicles Volume II offers up true tales of Blackbeard the Pirate, King Hancock and North Carolina’s most vicious Indian War, plus biographical sketches of home-grown heroes and a lady heroine from the Highlands of Scotland. There are stories here about the British invasion of Beaufort, the African Prince who served a governor, and the sleek blockade runners that braved the Yankee fleet. These stories and more make this second volume in the Coastal Chronicles series a must-have edition for locals, newcomers, and tourists alike.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
The Coastal Chronicles Vol. III
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780984490097 • 254 pages • $17.95)
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North Carolina and the Cape Fear have a vivid history that stretches for more than four centuries. Early explorers, Native America nations, pirates, Redcoats and Patriots, Billy Yanks and Johnny Rebs, U-Boats and Space Shuttle astronauts - the Tar Heel State can claim it all! In the pages of Carolina Chronicles Magazine (formerly Coastal Chronicles Magazine) , we tell those stories - true, factually accurate, and written as a storyteller would - to share the fascinating people and events of North Carolina's storied past. In this volume, you will find stories about: Tar Heel doughboys in World War I, the clash at Fort Dobbs in the French & Indian War, a floating theater that brought Broadway to secluded coastal communities, a firsthand account of the fall of Fort Fisher, what sharecropping was like in Depression-era North Carolina, and much, much more!
"...aficionados of local history should find it fascinating...Fryar rewards one's attention..." - Wilmington StarNews ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
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We Have Taken A City: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898
by H. Leon Prather, Sr. (097232402X • 6”x 9” • 196 pages • $17.95)
In November of 1898, North Carolina’s largest city exploded in violence that left local blacks disenfranchised, evicted, and in some cases dead. The riots in Wilmington marked the beginnings of Jim Crow in the South, and resulted in the only successful overthrow of a duly-elected government in the history of the United States. The events of those dark days remained shrouded in hearsay and innacuracies for more than a century. While in 2006 the state of North Carolina issued its “official” report on the riots, H. Leon Prather, Sr. wrote the first landmark account of what happened in Wilmington more than a decade before. Now back in print for the first time since 1998, We Have Taken A City remains one of the best sources for the real story of an event that changed not just the history of a city, but the history of the entire South for decades afterward.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
H. Leon Prather, Sr. (deceased) was a professor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. In addition to We Have Taken A City, Prather also authored Resurgent Politics and Progressivism in the New South: North Carolina, 1890-1913. Prather was a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Historical Association.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
H. Leon Prather, Sr. (deceased) was a professor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. In addition to We Have Taken A City, Prather also authored Resurgent Politics and Progressivism in the New South: North Carolina, 1890-1913. Prather was a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Historical Association.
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Buccaneers & Pirates of Our Coasts
by Frank R. Stockton; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (097862484X • 6" x 9" • 201 pages • $15.95)
From the very beginnings, America has been a fertile hunting ground for high seas rogues willing to take what they wanted when they found it. Even great men like Christopher Columbus and Sir Francis Drake took a turn as sea robbers. In later years, names like Blackbeard, Low, Bonnet and Kidd struck terror into the hearts of merchant captains, sailors and the civilian passengers they carried across the waves. North Carolina’s 300 miles of coastline, dotted with secluded coves and inlets, became a favorite haunt of pirates and buccaneers. In this book, first published in 1898, author Frank R. Stockton tells the stories of the villains who plundered the high seas and plagued America’s coastsduring our country’s early years. With original illustrations enhanced by additional maps and pictures, this new rendition of a classic book about the men and women who sailed under the Black Flag is sure to please!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Frank R. Stockton, (1834 – 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Though he continued to write some juvenile fiction, Stockton wrote mostly for adults after 1887, including Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (1898).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Frank R. Stockton, (1834 – 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Though he continued to write some juvenile fiction, Stockton wrote mostly for adults after 1887, including Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (1898).
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The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony
By David LaVere (9780984490011 • 6"x9" • $19.95)
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What if the survivors left Roanoke Island and found theirway to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series of engraved stones were found in the 1930’s. The first, found near the Chowan River in North Carolina, claimed that Eleanor Dare and a few other settlers had made their way inland after an Indian attack wiped out the rest of the colony - including Eleanor’s daughter, Virginia, and her husband Ananias. The rest, more than forty in number, told a fantastic tale of how the survivors made their way overland, first to South Carolina, and then to Georgia. If true, North Carolina stood to lose one of its most cherished historical
legends. If not, the stones would prove to be one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. Author David La Vere does a masterful job of weaving the story of the Dare Stones with that of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, in a tale that will fire your imagination and give you pause at the same time. The question: Was the greatest American mystery finally solved? ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David LaVere teaches American Indian History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is an award-winning author and public speaker. He came to the UNC-Wilmington Department of History in 1993 and has risen through the ranks to full Professor. La Vere has written six other books on American Indian History, and has also written numerous articles for Our State North Carolina magazine and has been a contributing author to two Our State Press publications. |
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Blue Tide Rising: A Memoir of the Union Army
in North Carolina
by MajGen Jacob D. Cox; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (9780978624835 • 6" x 9" • 125 pages • $12.95)
Major General Joseph Dolson Cox had plenty to do as a Union Army commander engaged in fighting along the Mississippi River, but when Ulysses S. Grant needed him and his men in North Carolina, he immediately headed east. By train and by ship, Cox’s command made an amazingly fast movement to the Cape Fear, where just weeks before Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines had fought a desperate battle for Fort Fisher, guarding the last open port of the Confederacy at Wilmington. Now the fort was in Yankee hands, but Fort Anderson still remained upriver as one final obstacle to the fall of the port Robert E. Lee depended on. It fell to Jacob D. Cox and Adelbert Ames to eliminate Fort Anderson as they led the western element of a two-pronged assault on Wilmington. From there, Cox either fought in or was close by every major clash of arms fought in North Carolina in 1865. Cox died before his memoir was published in 1900. When it was, his account of his Civil War service made for an important addition to the story of the war from someone who played a pivotal role in it. This well illustrated volume will be a welcome addition to any student of the Civil War and North Carolina’s role in our nation’s fiercest crucible by fire.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jacob Dolson Cox, was a statesman, lawyer, and Union Army general during the American Civil War, a Republican politician from Ohio, a Liberal Republican Party founder, as well as an author, and a recognized microbiologist. He served as the 28th Governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jacob Dolson Cox, was a statesman, lawyer, and Union Army general during the American Civil War, a Republican politician from Ohio, a Liberal Republican Party founder, as well as an author, and a recognized microbiologist. He served as the 28th Governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior.
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A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion
by William Dobein James; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (9780981460307 • 5" x 8" • 219 pages • $17.95)
He was the partisan who ran circles around the feared Banastre Tarleton, using guerilla tactics to cripple the British effort to subdue the Carolinas. Hiding out in the Low Country swamps, striking when and where he was least expected, Francis Marion was one of the most colorful heroes of the American Revolution. In this memoir, written by a man who served with Marion, you’ll meet the real Swamp Fox. So many stories about Francis Marion’s exploits have been embellished to the point of fiction. In this book, William Dobein James sets the record straight. Illustrated for the first time, James’ account of this icon of America’s war for independence is a classic that preserves the memory of a man who was small in stature, but who became a giant of his nation’s history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
William Dobein James, A.M., was a South Carolinian originally of Georgetown District who was born in 1764 and enlisted to serve with Francis Marion during the American Revolutionary War. James later became a judge, and moved to Sumter District, where he owned a 1,309-acre plantation that was his primary residence. James died there in 1804. James' account of Francis Marion is the only one to have been written by someone who served with the legendary "Swamp Fox."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
William Dobein James, A.M., was a South Carolinian originally of Georgetown District who was born in 1764 and enlisted to serve with Francis Marion during the American Revolutionary War. James later became a judge, and moved to Sumter District, where he owned a 1,309-acre plantation that was his primary residence. James died there in 1804. James' account of Francis Marion is the only one to have been written by someone who served with the legendary "Swamp Fox."
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One Good Man: Rev. John Lamb Prichard's life of faith, service, and sacrifice
by Rev. J.D. Hufham; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (0978624882 • 6" x 9" • 153 pages • $14.95)
Rev. John Lamb Prichard spent his life following the dictates of his faith. From his initial entry to the ministry when he was a young carpenter in Camden, N.C., to his days at Wake Forest seminary school, to shepherding his early congregations in Danville and Lynchburg, Virginia, Prichard strove mightily to be worthy of his calling. But his most challenging days were spent at Wilmington, N.C.’s First Baptist Church during the dark time when America was torn apart by Civil War, and when a silent killer struck the city like a Biblical plague. Most of those who could flee the yellow fever epidemic of 1862 did. Some few, including John Lamb Prichard, stayed to minister to the needs of the legions of sick and dying. It was a decision that would cost him his life, but earn him immortality as a shining example of how to put ones faith into action. Originally published as a memoir in 1867, just five years after Prichard’s death, this classic account of one Christian soldier is both a gripping account of a dark time in North Carolina history, and a blueprint of how to have the courage of ones convictions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Rev. J. D. Hufham, D.D., was a contemporary of John Lamb Prichard, who earned his Doctor of Divitnity from Wake Forest College in 1857. Hufham was a publisher of the Biblical Recorder until 1867, when he became minister of a series of North Carolina Baptist churches.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Rev. J. D. Hufham, D.D., was a contemporary of John Lamb Prichard, who earned his Doctor of Divitnity from Wake Forest College in 1857. Hufham was a publisher of the Biblical Recorder until 1867, when he became minister of a series of North Carolina Baptist churches.
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Rebel Gibraltar: Fort Fisher and Wilmington, C.S.A.
by James L. Walker, Jr. (0972324070 • 5.5" x 8.5" • 432 pages • $32.00)
Even before the rest of North Carolina joined her sister states in secession, the people of the Lower Cape Fear were filled with enthusiasm for the Southern Cause - so much so that they actually seized Forts Johnston and Caswell, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, weeks before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. When the state finally did secede, Wilmington became the most important port city of the Confederacy, keeping Robert E. Lee supplied with the munitions and supplies he needed to fight the war against the North. Dedicated soldiers like William Lamb and W.H.C. Whiting turned the sandy beaches of southern New Hanover and Brunswick Counties into a series of fortresses that kept the Union navy at bay for four years. The mighty Fort Fisher and a series of smaller forts offered safe haven for daring blockade runners that brought in the Confederacy’s much-needed supplies. In the process, they turned the quiet port of Wilmington into a boomtown. In this book that was fifteen years in the making, James L. Walker, Jr. has chronicled the story of the Lower Cape Fear and the forts and men that guarded it during America’s bloodiest conflict, from the early days of the war to the fall of Wilmington in February 1865.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James L. Walker, Jr. is a Wilmington native who now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. A Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, he is a graduate of UNC-Charlotte with a degree in history. Walker has been a student of the War Between the States all of his life, and a re-enactor since 1976. Since 1976, he has supervised the fund-raising and erection of eleven Confederate monuments, one World War II monument, and five Confederate soldier headstones, including that of George Benson, the last survivor of Fort Fisher.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
James L. Walker, Jr. is a Wilmington native who now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. A Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, he is a graduate of UNC-Charlotte with a degree in history. Walker has been a student of the War Between the States all of his life, and a re-enactor since 1976. Since 1976, he has supervised the fund-raising and erection of eleven Confederate monuments, one World War II monument, and five Confederate soldier headstones, including that of George Benson, the last survivor of Fort Fisher.
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The Story of Brunswick Town & Fort Anderson
by Franda D. Pedlow with additional material by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (0972324062 • 6" x 9" • 115 pages • $12.95)
In 1725, Maurice Moore convinced his friends and family from the Goose Creek section of South Carolina to relocate to North Carolina’s Cape Fear River and build their own settlement. The Moores quickly laid out a new town called Brunswick that would become the colony’s only port with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. Over the course of its existence, Brunswick was raided by Spanish privateers, sacked by British redcoats, and was home to some of the leading figures in colonial and Revolutionary War North Carolina. Two Royal Governors made their homes there, and one of the earliest rebellions against English rule in America was acted out at Brunswick. During the Civil War, Fort Anderson was built on the ruins of the colonial town. After the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865, Fort Anderson became the last obstacle to the Union occupation of the vital port at Wilmington, further up the Cape Fear River. In this book, Franda D. Pedlow and Jack E. Fryar, Jr. have put together a beginner’s primer that initiates history lovers into the rich past of one of North Carolina’s most significant historic sites.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
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Revolutionary Incidents: Sketches of Character,
Chiefly in the Old North State Vol. I
by Rev. E.W. Caruthers, D.D.; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (9780981460390 • 6" x 9" • 237 pages • $18.95)
In 1854, and again in 1856, Rev. Eli Washington Caruthers published a compilation of stories, gathered over the course of many years, that spotlighted the bravery, sacrifices and viciousness that was a part of life for North Carolinians during the Revolutionary War. From the actions of Governor William Tryon in suppressing the Regulator Rebellion, through the first Patriot victory against British forces at Moores Creek, to the depredations of Tory terror David Fanning, the Old North State was the scene of some of the most pivotal episodes in the struggle for American independence. Long out of print, this newly illustrated edition tells the stories of the men and women who paid for American liberty with their blood and sacrifice. Caruthers’ two volumes on the Revolutionary War in North Carolina are the stories of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. They are the stories of men like John Grady, John Ashe, Andrew Balfour and countless others who gave their all for the cause of freedom, and in doing so showed the character that has been a benchmark for patriotic sacrifice ever since.
ABOUT THE EDITOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and currently teaches history in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE EDITOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and currently teaches history in Wilmington, N.C.
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Revolutionary Incidents: Sketches of Character,
Chiefly in the Old North State Vol. II
by Rev. E.W. Caruthers, D.D.; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (9780984490000 • 6" x 9" • 231 pages • $18.95)
In 1854, and again in 1856, Rev. Eli Washington Caruthers published a compilation of stories, gathered over the course of many years, that spotlighted the bravery, sacrifices and viciousness that was a part of life for North Carolinians during the Revolutionary War. From the actions of Governor William Tryon in suppressing the Regulator Rebellion, through the first Patriot victory against British forces at Moores Creek, to the depredations of Tory terror David Fanning, the Old North State was the scene of some of the most pivotal episodes in the struggle for American independence. Long out of print, this newly illustrated edition tells the stories of the men and women who paid for American liberty with their blood and sacrifice. Caruthers’ two volumes on the Revolutionary War in North Carolina are the stories of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. They are the stories of men like John Grady, John Ashe, Andrew Balfour and countless others who gave their all for the cause of freedom, and in doing so showed the character that has been a benchmark for patriotic sacrifice ever since.
ABOUT THE EDITOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and currently teaches history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE EDITOR..
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and currently teaches history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
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Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution
in the Carolinas & Georgia
by Benson J. Lossing; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (0972324046 • 8.5" x 11" • 264 pages • $19.95)
Every school child in America has heard the stories of Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill and Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River. That’s due in large part to the fact that most history books were written by authors who lived in the northern colonies. But how many people know the first victory for the Patriot cause came at a little creek in North Carolina? Or that the truly decisive battles of the American Revolution were fought south of Virginia? In 1848, New Yorker Benson J. Lossing embarked on a two year trek that covered thousands of miles through the original thirteen states and Canada. His mission was to collect and preserve the stories of the men and women who had fought to make the United States a reality. His original work was published in 1850, consisting of two illustrated volumes comprising over 2,000 pages of first-hand history. In this book, we have excerpted the chapters that deal with the war in the Carolinas and Georgia. It was here that the battles which beat the British were fought. It was in the South that America stood up to an empire that spanned the globe and won. Benson J. Lossing tells the stories of the heroes and villains of the war from the accounts of the people who were there. If a Redcoat and an American stood on opposite banks of a stream and threw rocks at each other, it’s probably in his book. It includes illustrations of the people and places that played such a big role in our nation’s founding, but that too often have been lost to the passing of time. Lossing’s account of his travels also present a wonderful picture of the Carolinas and Georgia as they were in the decade before America’s next great crucible, the Civil War.
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Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution
in Virginia & Maryland
by Benson J. Lossing; Jack E. Fryar, Jr. - editor (9780978624859 • 8.5" x 11" • 209 pages • $21.95)
It was by the placid waters of the Chesapeake Bay that some of the most dramatic scenes of the Revolutionary War were played out, paving the way for the birth of a new nation. In Virginia and Maryland, the struggle for independence from Great Britain was finally won at battlefields and towns that stretch from Annapolis to the Shenandoah Valley. In 1848, New Yorker Benson J. Lossing embarked on a two year trek that covered thousands of miles through the original thirteen states and Canada. His mission was to collect and preserve the stories of the men and women who had fought to make the United States a reality. His original work was published in 1850, consisting of two illustrated volumes comprising over 2,000 pages of first-hand history. In this book, we have excerpted the chapters that deal with the war in Virginia and Maryland (including Washington, D.C. and the Albemarle region of North Carolina).It was the scene of some of the war’s hardest fights. Benson J. Lossing tells the stories of the heroes and villains of the war from the accounts of the people who were there. If a Redcoat and an American stood on opposite banks of astream and threw rocks at each other, it’s probably in his book. It includes illustrations of the people and places that played such a big role in our nation’s founding, but that too often have been lost to the passing of time. Lossing’s account of his travels also present a wonderful picture of the original thirteen states as they were in the decade before America’s next great crucible, the Civil War. We hope you’ll enjoy this incredible account of the American.
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Potter's Raid: The Union Cavalry's Boldest Expedition in Eastern North Carolina
by David A. Norris (9780981460321 • 6" x 9" • 297 pages • $24.95)
As early as 1862, Union forces held a sizeable portion of eastern North Carolina’s northern coastal region. While blockade runners dashed in and out of the port at Wilmington, safe from Yankee interference thanks to the mighty guns of Fort Fisher, it was a different story just ninety miles to the north. In New Bern, it was the Union army that was in control. Confederate military leaders and civilians kept a wary eye on what was going on behind the Yankee lines occupied by John Gray Foster’s Billy Yanks, wondering what mischief the enemy might be up to, and when they might strike into the countryside. Their fears were realized when Union cavalry under the command of Brigadier General Edward Potter cut a swath through eastern North Carolina in what would be the war’s largest Union raid in the eastern part of the state. From Kinston and Goldsboro, to Greenville, Rocky Mount, and Tarboro, Federal and Confederate troops clashed on foot and horseback while civilians suffered and slaves took advantage of the confusion to make a dash for freedom. In this book, historian David A. Norris brings all of the suspense and drama of Potter’s raid to life with a narrative that will have you on the edge of your seat. For the Civil War buff, this book is a top-notch story about a little known episode of North Carolina’s wartime past. For the casual reader, it is a tale full of the drama, heroism, and tragedy that is the hallmark of a gripping story - one that happens to be true.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Freelance writer and artist David A. Norris was born in Charlotte, N.C. He has a BFA degree in art from East Carolina University, and lived in Greenville for a number of years after graduation. David has written over two hundred magazine and encyclopedia articles diverse publications like Our State, American Heritage, CNN.com, America’s Civil War, History Magazine, Civil War Times, American History, the North Carolina Historical Review, Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, South Carolina Magazine, True West, Mental Floss, and Learning Through History. In addition, he has contributed articles to the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, the Encyclopedia of New Jersey, the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina History, and the Mississippi Encyclopedia. Although the Civil War is a favorite subject, he has also written on topics ranging from the Roman Army to the celluloid collar and the derby hat. He lives in Wilmington with his wife Carol.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Freelance writer and artist David A. Norris was born in Charlotte, N.C. He has a BFA degree in art from East Carolina University, and lived in Greenville for a number of years after graduation. David has written over two hundred magazine and encyclopedia articles diverse publications like Our State, American Heritage, CNN.com, America’s Civil War, History Magazine, Civil War Times, American History, the North Carolina Historical Review, Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, South Carolina Magazine, True West, Mental Floss, and Learning Through History. In addition, he has contributed articles to the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, the Encyclopedia of New Jersey, the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina History, and the Mississippi Encyclopedia. Although the Civil War is a favorite subject, he has also written on topics ranging from the Roman Army to the celluloid collar and the derby hat. He lives in Wilmington with his wife Carol.
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Wild, Wicked, Wartime Wilmington: Being an account of murder, malice and other assorted mayhem in N.C.'s largest city during the Civil War
by Robert J. Cooke (9780981460345 • 6" x 9" • 291 pages • $24.00)
When America went to war with itself, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city. From the imposing grandeur of the Bellamy Mansion that overlooked a busy harbor, to the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, which at one time boasted the longest rail line in the world, the port city was a bustling example of Southern industry. But when conflict came, the city became a pivotal player in the Confederate government’s war efforts. Paddy’s Hollow boasted more than thirty saloons, while murders happened with alarming frequency. Prostitutes offered their services to the thousands of soldiers passing through town, while civilian and military authorities tried to keep a lid on it all. Local police were woefully inadequate to keep the peace against rioting soldiers who had witnessed the horrors of places like Chickamauga and Gettysburg. Doctors performed heroically to save lives, fighting disease, battlefield disfigurements, and death with too little of every kind of medicine and supplies. Civilians, railroads, and military officials all competed for too few resources, while offshore the Union blockade of what became the last open port of the Confederacy grew tighter with each passing day. Robert J. Cooke’s ten years of research has resulted in a picture of Wilmington that more closely resembles the Wild West’s Dodge City than it does some genteel antebellum city.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Robert J. Cooke is a New Yorker by birth and an avid historian by
nature. He graduated with a BA in History from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y. After retiring from the telecommunications industry in 1994, Bob relocated to Wilmington, N.C., where he and his wife Joan and “a couple of dogs” now reside. Robert J. Cooke has also contributed articles and stories to several journals and magazines. Wild, Wicked, Wartime Wilmington is his first book, the result of more than a decade of research.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Robert J. Cooke is a New Yorker by birth and an avid historian by
nature. He graduated with a BA in History from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y. After retiring from the telecommunications industry in 1994, Bob relocated to Wilmington, N.C., where he and his wife Joan and “a couple of dogs” now reside. Robert J. Cooke has also contributed articles and stories to several journals and magazines. Wild, Wicked, Wartime Wilmington is his first book, the result of more than a decade of research.
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THE YOUNG READER'S SERIES OF NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY
Dram Tree Books' Young Reader's Series of North Carolina History consists of short (32-64 pages on average), very visual and colorful books about the history of North Carolina, aimed at youths between ages 8-18. The idea is to introduce youngsters to the four centuries of great stories we have in North Carolina in a way that is fun, entertaining, and true. As an added bonus, as many adults enjoy the books as kids because they are a great way to learn about our history without having to commit to a thick "regular" history book!
1898: The Violent Taking of a Southern City
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780984490066 • 8.5" x 11" • $12.95)
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In 1898, Wilmington, N.C. was a shining example of what a Southern city could be, with a thriving majority-Black population made up of not just laborers, but also a strong professional and middle class. But when the Fusion movement of the 1890s delivered big wins for Republican candidates across the state, Democrats began plotting to retake power - even if it meant violence to do it. It all came to a head in an insurrection on November 10, 1898, when armed white supremacists took to the streets. When it was over, hundreds of Blacks had been dispossessed and run out of town, a legally elected government had been overthrown in the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, and African Americans had been killed in the streets in untold numbers. This is that story.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than thirty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history in Wilmington, N.C.
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Plantations: Living and Working on North Carolina's Great Estates
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780978624804 • 8.5" x 11" • $11.95)
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In the South, the plantation was recognizable as something unique to the lands below the Mason-Dixon Line. In popular imagination, great estates like Orton Plantation on the Cape Fear River, or Drayton Hall in Lowcountry South Carolina, remind modern people of Tara, the grand house of Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With the Wind." Southern plantations were their own ecosystems, producing virtually everything they needed themselves. In most instances, the work of the plantation was done by the hands of the enslaved until the Civil War brought that institution to an end. Nevertheless, plantations hold a fascination for modern Americans, and the estates of North Carolina offer prime examples of life in a society built on agriculture made possible by chattel slavery. In this book, we introduce readers to what life was like for those who lived it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
Pirates of the North Carolina Coast: Being an account of Blackbeard, Bonnet, Low, Lowther, Bellamy, Bonny, Rackham, Vane, Worley, Read, and the villains who sailed with them
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780978624897 • 8.5" x 11" • $12.95)
In the Golden Age of Piracy, swashbuckling sea robbers were a terror to merchant ships loaded with the riches of the New World. Men like Henry Morgan, Edward Low, George Lowther, Stede Bonnet, and women like Anne Bonny and Mary Read rampaged through the islands of the Caribbean and along the coast of the American colonies. North Carolina had more than their fair share of dealings with pirates, because North Carolina’s 300-mile coastline was a perfect place for buccaneers to hide. And in many cases, the people of the Carolinas welcomed them! This book tells the story of the those colorful rogues who robbed and pillaged at will, including Blackbeard, that most famous of sea robbers. You’ll also learn what the life of a pirate was really like, and how these thieves of the high seas were nothing like the happy rovers usually seen in the movies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
The Battles for Fort Fisher: The story of the South's largest fort and the terrible struggles to defeat it
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (0978624807 • 8.5" x 11" • $10.95)
In the Civil War, there was no fort more important than Fort Fisher. Guarding the Cape Fear River and the port at Wilmington, the fort was the largest in the Confederacy. As long as it stood guard over the blockade runners bringing much needed supplies to the South, America’s bloodiest war could drag on and on. By 1864, the Northern generals knew Fort Fisher had to go. This is the story of their attempts to capture the fort, and the story of the brave men on both sides who fought to defend their homes and nations on the sandy beaches of the Cape Fear. The outcome of the battles at Fort Fisher would decide the fate of the nation. Would the Union troops fail, and as a result see the country forever split? Or would they succeed, and finally see North and South once again together as the United States? The answers are inside!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
The Yellow Death: Wilmington & The Epidemic of 1862
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780978624873 • 8.5" x 11" • $10.95)
Before the coming of modern medicine, people living near the swampy coastal areas of North Carolina were frequently plagued by diseases that left many sick and dead. One of the worst of these was yellow fever. Carried by mosquitoes, the disease was a mystery to doctors until 1898. That was 36 years too late to save the hundreds of Wilmington residents who perished in the deadly outbreak of 1862. While the Civil War raged throughout the country, and Union warships stood offshore to stop the blockade runners making for the Confederate port at Wilmington, the city was full of soldiers and speculators, sailors, slaves and citizens. Before the yellow fever epidemic ended in November, a full third of Wilmington’s population would be dead. This is the story of a baffling illness that killed more often than not, and of the people who came together to weather the storm of death it brought.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
Under Three Flags: The Fort Johnston Story
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780978624828 • 8.5" x 11" • $10.95)
There is one place in North Carolina with a history of active service that stretches from our earliest colonial days right up through the War on Terror. Fort Johnston, named after one of North Carolina’s five royal governors, has guarded the Cape Fear since 1748. It has seen service in virtually every war America has fought for more than two and a half centuries, and witnessed everything from Spanish pirates to British redcoats, Confederate soldiers wearing butternut and gray, to modern soldiers supplying the munitions American soldiers need to defend our nation on battlefields across the world. The names of the men associated with Fort Johnston reads like a Who’s Who list of people who played important roles in the history of North Carolina and the nation: Josiah Martin, Major General Robert Howe, Col. James Moore, President James Monroe, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Gen. Nelson Miles, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, Abner Doubleday - all have ties to this one-of-a-kind piece of North Carolina’s colorful past. This is Fort Johnston’s story, one that spans more than 250 years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
"King George and Broadswords!" The Story of the Battle at Widow Moores Creek
by Jack E. Fryar, Jr. (9780978624828 • 8.5" x 11" • $11.95)
In 1776, America was a country at war with itself. British soldiers had shot colonial militia at Lexington and Concord, only to be shot in return by Massachusetts farmers and Minutemen on the long march back to Boston. In North Carolina, people were divided between those who wanted to remain loyal to King George III, and those who were ready to break away from Great Britain to form their own nation. North Carolina’s Royal Governor, Josiah Martin, had fled from New Bern’s fabulous Tryon Palace to the safety of a British warship anchored in the Cape Fear River. From there, he made a plan to put down the rebellion in the South with an army of Highlanders. Patriots who wanted a break with England wanted to stop that army. In February 1776, the two sides came together in a brief, fierce clash at a small creek in modern Pender County. It would be the first patriot victory against the British in the South, and the battle’s outcome would shake governments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This is the story of that clash.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history. His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Masters degree in History and another Masters in Teaching, and taught history at E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, N.C.
Stellar Civil War History by Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.!
Dram Tree Books is delighted to be able to add great Civil War history titles by renowned historian Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. to our list of titles! Fonvielle has made a reputation as one of the most respected authorities on the Civil War, especially as it happened at Fort Fisher and in the Cape Fear region. While we do not have is signature work, The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope, as one of our offerings yet, we are happy to offer four more examples of Dr. Fonvielle's work for your reading pleasure!
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