Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate by Brantley, Michael K.
Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate by Brantley, Michael K.

Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate

Every Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by...
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Author: Michael K. Brantley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate by Brantley, Michael K.

Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate

$375.82
Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate by Brantley, Michael K.

Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate

$375.82
Author: Michael K. Brantley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Every Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed slaveholding. He also opposed secession and war, yet he fought on both sides of the conflict. During his time in each uniform, Batchelor barely avoided death at the Battle of Gettysburg, was captured twice, and survived one of the war's most infamous prisoner-of-war camps. He escaped and, after walking hundreds of miles, rejoined his comrades at Petersburg, Virginia, just as the Union siege there began. Once the war ended, Batchelor returned on foot to his farm, where he took part in local politics, supported rights for freedmen, and was fatally involved in a bizarre hometown murder.

Michael K. Brantley's story of his great-great-grandfather's odyssey blends memory and Civil War history to look at how the complexities of loyalty and personal belief governed one man's actions--and still influence the ways Americans think about the conflict today.


Author: Michael K. Brantley
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 05/01/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781640121225

About the Author
Michael K. Brantley is the great-great-grandson of Wright Stephen Batchelor. He is an assistant professor of communications at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina, and a former newspaper editor. He has published creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry in numerous publications, including the First Day, Dunes Review, Broad River Review, WordRiver, and Broadkill Review. He is the author of Memory Cards: Portraits from a Rural Journey.
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