Jim White is a noted author, having published a number of books on Portsmouth Island and New Bern, North Carolina. Among his works are Paradise Lost: An Oral History of Portsmouth Island, Portsmouth Island: Walk in the Past and Portsmouth Divided: The Civil War on Portsmouth Island. Other books include Fifty Years of Light: A History of Grantham Masonic Lodge and Years of Light: Volume 3, a History of St. John's #3 Masonic Lodge. He is the winner of the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award and the Claude Hunter Moore Journal Award presented by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Jim is a retired educator, principal and college professor and lives in New Bern, North Carolina, with his wife, Nancy. They have three sons and five grandchildren.
James White's well-composed descriptive accounts of the several
attempts by Confederate forces to retake the strategically
important port city of New Bern comprise a very welcome and largely
satisfying attempt to fill in long-standing gaps in the North
Carolina military history of the mid to late Civil War period.
Recommended. Civil War Books and Authors
Local history enthusiasts will find a wealth of information in New
Bern and the Civil War. Throughout the main narrative, White
provides substantial detail for the units, commanders, and men who
fought in the region. The book is interspersed with pictures,
paintings, and engravings of the actors and events White portrays.
There are also several maps and diagrams of the forts and
landscapes to orient the reader and prevent the scores of place
names from becoming overwhelming. Civil War Monitor
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