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(More customer reviews)This highlights a part General Pickett's expedition to recapture New Bern, NC in Feb.1864. It covers only the advance by General James Martin's Confederate forces sent to capture Newport Barracks and cut off help going to New Bern. Unforunately what happened at New Bern was not entered into during this book. There are no maps of the area of the advance and none of the battle itself which would have helped in following the fighting. Also it was printed in large fonts and double spaced between the sentences. These things aside reading the accounts and the events were very good for such a small battle which ended in a Confederate tactical victory after the main expedition had failed. Eric Lindblade seems to have done a lot of research for this side battle of the New Bern expedition into the casualties for the 2 Feb 1864 for both sides and afterwards follow up. It would have been a much better book if he had covered the entire expedition to round out the book.
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Fight As Long As Possible:The Battle of Newport Barracks, North Carolina, February 2, 1864 by Eric A. Lindblade tells the long overdue story of the largest battle fought during the Civil War in Carteret County, and the costliest in terms of killed and wounded. Often viewed as a mere historical footnote to the larger attempt by Confederate forces to recapture New Bern in 1864, this book places the fighting in and around Shepardsville, North Carolina (now known as Newport) in the proper context of the Civil War in eastern North Carolina, but also in the war as a whole.The Battle of Newport Barracks was the culmination of a brilliant operation commanded by Confederate Brigadier General James Green Martin and marked a Confederate victory in eastern North Carolina, a region of the state where the fortunes of war rarely favored Confederate forces. In the aftermath of the Battle of Newport Barracks, three members of the 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry would be awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military honor awarded by the United States for heroism on the field of battle, for their role in the valiant and determined defense by Union forces in the face of overwhelming odds.
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