This community study examines the guerrilla war in northeastern North Carolina during the American Civil War by reconstructing the events surrounding the death of one of the Confederate irregular soldiers who died in this local conflict. In December 1863, Daniel Bright, a citizen of Pasquotank County, North Carolina was executed for his involvement in an irregular resistance to Union army incursions along the coast of the state. The project traces the contours of divided political loyalties in the community focusing particular attention on the Unionist minority of Pasquotank. Ultimately, the project argues that guerrilla war reshaped this community and profoundly affected how loyalties manifested themselves during the war. It also contends that this community is further proof that guerrilla violence was not isolated to the highlands of Appalachia but that irregular wars stretched from one corner of North Carolina to the other.