Paperback, 6" x 9", 297 pp., with maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, troop rosters, appendices & index, 2008.

Norris, who lives in Wilmington, has produced a thorough and extensively researched account of Union general Edward E. Potter's 1863 rampage through East Carolina.

Ovr 800 Yankees, led by Potter, attacked Greenville on July 19 and then made simultaneous attacks on Rocky Mount and Tarboro the next day. Confederate troops chased the Yanks and fought "sharp clashes" at Daniel's Schoolhouse near Tarboro; at Otter Creek Bridge near Falkland; near Hookerton, at Scuffleton and at Street's Ferry in Craven County. The raids, Norris reports, were front page news in the New York Times, but by the time he moved to Greenville, to attend ECU, they had been all but forgotten.

Norris's book fills in a long-ignored gap in both Civil War and regional history.