Tales From a Civil War Plantation: Creekside

These are true tales of life on a southern plantation during the Civil War. Creekside was built by Colonel Thomas George Walton in 1836. The house was used as a headquarters by Stoneman's Raiders in 1864. Civil War letters and official documents embellish the pages of the book, including 60 photographs. The tales are told in the words of the people who lived the events through their letters, diaries, and family stories passed down through generations.

Author: Louisa Emmons
Publisher: Hollow Tree Press
Published: 11/01/2014
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780692323021

About the Author
Louisa Emmons is the great great granddaughter of Colonel Thomas George Walton who built Creekside in 1836. The book won the Robert Bruce Cooke Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians in 2014. Another book by Emmons, Civil War Voices from Western North Carolina: Tales from the Battlefield and the Homefront, won the Society's Willie Parker Peace History Book Award in 2015.

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