Driven from Home: North Carolina's Civil War Refugee CrisisExamining refugees of Civil War era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life. In North Carolina, writes David Silkenat, the relative security of the Piedmont and mountains drew pro Confederate elements from across the region. Early in the war, Union