Collett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate

J. Timothy Cole is a librarian at Greensboro Public Library and an archivist at Guilford College. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bradley R. Foley is a librarian at Randolph County Public Library and is editor of The Guilford Genealogist. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface      1. English Roots: Ancestry, Youth and the 14th Foot, ca. 1600–1842      2. To America: Rutherfordton and the Quest for “Eldorado,” 1843–1861      3. “The Best Drilled Regiment,” 1861–1862      4. Pettigrew, Pennsylvania and Prison, 1863–1864      5. In the Service of His State, 1864–1865      6. Post-Bellum Years: Wanderings, Reconstruction Politics and the Seeker of Fortunes, 1865–1889      7. Epilog: A Confederate Hero’s Day, May 11, 1896      AppendicesI. The Leventhorpes of East London      II. Some Courts-Martial During Col. Leventhorpe’s Command of the 11th NC      III. Regimental Orders for Changes in the Cape Fear District Command, September, 1862      IV. Personal Effects of Four Men Killed at the Battle of White Hall, December 16, 1862      V. Poems by General Leventhorpe      VI. “General Collett Leventhorpe,” an Address by Col. Edmund Jones, Raleigh, May 11, 1896      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

“well researched and written, this book is the finest to date on Collett Leventhorpe. It contributes significantly to the scholarship on North Carolina during the Civil War...well worth reading”—The North Carolina Historical Review.