Excerpt from Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, Vol. 1 North Carolina, having exhausted counsel and entreaty upon those who were leaders on both sides in the great contention between the States, was at length made aware that peace had become impossible, and nothing was left but the choice of sides in a controversy not of her seeking. Very calmly and more in sorrow than wrath the flat went forth that was to convert her peaceful fields into one great military camp. There had been never much exceeding an hun dred thousand votes polled at any State election, and the whole sum of the white population was but six hundred thousand souls. How many of those of their own accord left the endearments of home, at what they felt was the call of duty, this work seeks to disclose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.