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Annotated Bibliography Though few battles scarred North Carolina soil, the Tar Heel State's participation in the Civil War has been of great interest to historians. Civil War literature ranges from general reading and campaign narratives to children's books and scholarly texts. The following annotated list includes recent studies and classic readings. Politics / Coming of the War / General Women Home Front Soldier Life Campaigns and Battles Biography Medicine Navy First-Person Accounts Reference Slavery / Emancipation Medicine Cunningham, H. H. Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. Comprehensive review of Confederate medical operations. ———. "Edmund Burke Haywood and Raleigh's Confederate Hospitals." North Carolina Historical Review 34 (April 1958): 153–166. Chronicles the efforts of North Carolina medical officials to provide care to the state's sick and wounded soldiers. Straubing, Harold Elk. In Hospital and Camp. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1993. The Civil War through the eyes of its doctors and nurses.

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