Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) - Softcover

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Barton A. Myers is assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University.

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"... thoroughly researched and prize-winning study of violence in the no-man's-land of northeastern coastal North Carolina..." -- Civil War Book Review

"Myers adds significantly to the increasingly diverse mosaic of community studies that have helped scholars understand the deep social impact of the Civil War." -- Journal of Southern History

Daniel Bright was executed in 1863 for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army incursions along the coast of North Carolina. In Executing Daniel Bright, Barton A. Myers uses Bright's life and death to exemplify a larger pattern of retaliatory executions and public murders meant to enforce a message of political loyalty and military conduct on the Confederate home front. Myers contends that Bright's execution provides a tangible illustration of the collapse of social order on the southern home front that ultimately led to the downfall of the Confederacy.

Barton A. Myers is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. Fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the North Caroliniana Society are among his other honors.