Dismal Freedom : A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp ( J. Brent Morris -BH) Section- Ralph peters Carman had the advantage of

Carman had the advantage of not only participating in the battle as a colonel in the Union army

that cemented them together into a fighting machine that consistently won despite often overwhelming odds against them

Colley’s postwar reflections on the war reveal his struggle to earn a living and maintain his integrity while remaining somewhat unreconciled to his condition

But here Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver weave a far richer story

Gunpowder Girls: Three Civil War Tragedies

Dismal Freedom : A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp ( J. Brent Morris -BH) Section- Ralph peters Carman had the advantage ofby J. Brent Morris The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroonspeople who had