Henry Toole Clark: Civil War Governor of North Carolina

This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina’s second Civil War governor. In addition to his actions as a war leader, it explores Clark’s role as a member of the Old South’s planter elite and his change in status after the war, his slaveholding business, the constitutional crisis that made him governor, and his career during the years of Reconstruction.

R. Matthew Poteat is an assistant professor of history at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has written articles and reviews for a variety of scholarly journals and online publications, including The North Carolina Historical Review, Shenandoah: the Washington and Lee University Review, and H-Net Civil War.