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While “Lincoln’s pockets” sounds like an interesting name for a band, it’s actually the result of a couple of articles I recently read about what the 16th president had on him the night he was assassinated. On that fateful night, April 14, 1865, when Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theatre, he…
There were a lot of interesting things I ran across while researching Galvanized that either didn’t get much coverage in the book, had to be cut or edited, or just simply weren’t relevant. The story of the Immortal 600 got brief mention in Chapter 13 “Statues of Limitation” because there is a statue in Washington,…
“As the author’s research reveals the journey of his great-great-grandfather across Nash County and battlefields of the Civil War, Michael K. Brantley discovers that exploring the past reveals the explored but changes the explorer. A worthy literary effort!” —Wade G. Dudley, author of Remembering North Carolina and Splintering the Wooden Wall I was honored to get this quote…
At last, at last. I’ve been waiting anxiously to share the cover design for Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate since the fine folks at the University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books sent it to me over a month ago. I’m thrilled with how they included the book’s main character, Nash County native Wright…
By Michael K. Brantley I couldn’t get everything about eastern North Carolina into the story that makes up my forthcoming book about the Civil War in the area (Spring 2020). The research trail could have gone on for another decade and been incomplete. One thing I’ve run across is information about the Confederate hospital in…