1741 Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom, by Glenn Tucker (read 25 Sep 1982) This is a 1965 biography of Zebulon B. Vance, who was born 13 May 1830 twelve miles north of where Asheville, N.C., later was founded. He died on 14 April 1894. He served in the House of Representatives just before the Civil War, opposed secession until after the war started, served as Governor of N.C. from 1862 till after the war ended, then again as Governor from Jan 1, 1877, till he was elected Senator in 1879. Most of this book deals with Vance's time as Governor during the Civil War. It is not well-written, it finds no fault with Vance, and is not chronological. Yet, it was fairly interesting, and threw considerable light on events in North Carolina during the Civil War. I got the idea that North Carolina thought it was being discriminated against by Virginia during the war. I certainly did not like the scanty attention given in the book to Vance's Senate career. He is one of North Carolina's persons in Statutory hall. I guess I simply cannot resist reading biographies of Senators. ( )