" This is an account of the seven military operations conducted by the Confederacy against deserters and disloyalists and the concomitant internal war between secessionists and those who opposed secession in the Quaker Belt of central North Carolina. "-- Provided by publisher.

The antislavery impulse and the Quaker belt -- The secession crisis and the militant unionists -- The inner Civil War -- The Copperhead insurgency, phase one: the peace movement -- General Hoke's great deserter hunt in late 1863 -- The Copperhead insurgency, phase two: the convention movement and the gubernatorial election of 1864 -- The 1864 election uprising and the Vance repression -- The last hunt and the conclusion of the inner Civil War.