R. Matthew Poteat, an assistant professor of history at Central Virginia Community College, has written the first in-depth biography of Henry Toole Clark, a governor of North Carolina during the Civil War. The book has just been published by McFarland & Company, Inc, a leading publisher of scholarly and reference books in the United States. The biography explores Clark’s position as a member of the planter elite, his role during the war, his slave-holding business, and his career during Reconstruction.
Poteat has written a number of articles and reviews for scholarly journals, including The North Carolina Historical Review and Shenandoah: the Washington and Lee University Review. In 2007, he was awarded the Archie K. Davis Fellowship for his ongoing research on Governor Clark.
The book, Henry Toole Clark: Civil War Governor of North Carolina
The author lives in Staunton, Virginia, with his wife, Katherine Turner, an English professor at Mary Baldwin College.
