Mark A. Moore

LAST STAND IN THE CAROLINAS: THE BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE
By Mark L. Bradley

"On July 9, 1993, as a member of the Congressionally-mandated Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, I returned to Averasboro and Bentonville. Guided by [site manager] John Goode and members of his staff, and Mark Bradley and Mark Moore, we toured the battlefield, which is extensive, embracing more than 6,000 acres . . . . The Commissioners, while touring the site, were given copies of several handsome troop movement maps prepared and researched by Moore. We were impressed by what was said and what we saw, and urged that when completed the Bradley manuscript and Moore maps be published to call the public's attention to the Battle of Bentonville."

Edwin C. Bearss
Historian Emeritus, National Park Service
Legendary Civil War  Tour Guide

"The reader has one advantage that the soldier did not have, and it is a big one: the thirty-six exquisite battlefield maps by Mark A. Moore which depict the location of forces down to the regimental level and are among the best battlefield in any book."

Craig Symonds
United States Naval Academy
Author of Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography

"[Last Stand in the Carolinas] is a fine, fine book . . . The numerous maps [by Mark Moore] are especially helpful."

Richard M. McMurry
Author of Two Gret Rebel Armies and John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence

"The 36 maps by Mark A. Moore are superb. They go beyond complementing the text—one could practically follow the battle and understand all the action by using the maps alone."

America's Civil War Magazine
July 1997

"Critics have called attention not only to Bradley's thorough research and vivid battle descriptions but also to the 36 maps drawn by Mark Moore. [Bradley] and Moore were working separately on the battle when they were brought together by John Goode [former site manager at bentonville Battlefield]."

Goldsboro News-Argus
February 7, 1996

"An important addition are to [Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville] is the 36 maps by North Carolina cartographer Mark A. Moore. Moore is a long-time student of the battle and his maps are crucial to the reader's understanding of what happened in the closing days of the war in North Carolina. Moore's maps are such a significant part of the book that future writers would be wise to use his work as an example of the importance of maps in works of military history."

Star Banner — Ocala, Florida
June 1996

"On the dust jacket [of Last Stand in the Carolinas] one reviewer says 'the maps are helpful.' More than that: they are WONDERFUL! I can't understand why so many Civil War books have maps not worth the name or so poorly produced. Military history needs maps to be understood . . . I thank [Mark Moore] for his very fine job."

Albert Cattapan
Suresnes, France

"For the past 40 years I have been studying the Western campaigns and the soldiers who fought there. My personal library is overflowing with both campaign studies and personal narratives. But I can truly say that Mark Bradley's Bentonville book is the finest campaign and battle study I have ever read. In combination with cartographer Mark Moore, these two gentlemen have set a new standard in the field of Civil War literature . . . . [Moore's] maps are the best I've ever seen illuminate any Civil War book."

Stephen J. Adolphson
West Newbury, Massachusetts

LAST RAYS OF DEPARTING HOPE: THE WILMINGTON CAMPAIGN
By Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.

"More than 80 photographs and illustrations grace the book as do 32 maps drawn by Mark Moore, who [researched and drew] the maps in the 1996 study of the Battle of Bentonville, N.C., by Mark Bradly . . . How detailed is The Wilmington Campagn? One page is devoted to two line drawings [by Moore] of the USS Louisiana, the old ship loaded with more than 200 tons of black powder that the Federals tried to use as a gigantic bomb to blow down Fort Fisher in Deecember 1964. The two drawings show the distibution of powder and the fuse networks."

Civil War News
December 1997