This fully rewritten, deeply researched 5th Anniversary Edition of Henry tells the haunting, historically grounded story of Henry Berry Lowry—Lumbee folk hero, outlaw, and resistance leader—in his most complete and emotionally resonant portrayal yet. A People Under Siege In the backwoods of Robeson County, North Carolina, the Civil War wasn’t just a distant storm—it was a thief. It crept into kitchens and churches, stealing land, rights, and lives from the Lumbee people and their Black neighbors. When Allen Lowry and his son William are executed without trial in 1865, a fire is lit in Henry Berry Lowry, their youngest son. What begins as mourning becomes resistance. The Lowry Gang Rises Over the next seven years, Henry leads one of the most remarkable campaigns of defiance in Southern history. With his brothers, cousins, and friends—Tom and Steve Lowry, Calvin and Henderson Oxendine, Andrew and Boss Strong—he strikes back against the Confederate Home Guard, corrupt Reconstruction officers, and local elites. They become known as The Lowry Gang. But this isn’t just an outlaw tale. It’s a family saga—fueled by love, betrayal, survival, and legacy. The Women Who Endured Told through the eyes of not just Henry, but also the women who held the home together—Rhoda Strong Lowry, his wife and fiercest advocate; Mama Cumbo, matriarch of the Lowry clan; and the next generation born into chaos—Henry reveals the human cost of rebellion and the emotional stakes of justice in a nation that never made room for Indigenous autonomy. Based on Real Events Spanning 1864 to the early 1900s, this edition weaves in real historical events: • The murder of James P. Barnes • The executions of Allen and William Lowry • Henry’s wedding and immediate arrest • His infamous Whiteville jailbreak • The nighttime raids of redistribution • The capture of a Union spy posing as a schoolteacher • And the legendary disappearance of Henry after the 1872 Pope & McLeod safe robbery Blending historical accuracy with poetic storytelling, Henry brings readers into the pine forests, swamps, and kitchen fires of a people who refused to disappear. It brings you closer to the truth—and to the beating heart—of a legacy that shaped the Lumbee Tribe and still echoes in the winds of Robeson County. When the state took their land, their rights, their voices— Henry Berry Lowry gave them something else: A name the state could fear. A name the people could hold. A name that never died.