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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 Navy Donnelly, Ralph W. "Charlotte, North Carolina, Navy Yard, C.S.N." Civil War History 5 (March 1959): 72–79. After abandoning Norfolk Navy Yard to Federal forces, Confederate authorities moved remaining equipment and supplies to the inland safety of Charlotte. Elliott, Robert G. Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott's Albemarle. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Publishing Co., 1994. Detailed history of the Albemarle and biography of its builder. The Confederate ram successfully staved off Federal naval encroachment of the Roanoke River in 1864. Still, William N. Jr. "Career of the Confederate Ironclad ‘Neuse'." North Carolina Historical Review 43 (January 1966): 1–13. Named for the North Carolina river, the Neuse served merely to deter Federal riverine advances. Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. Wise recounts North Carolina's blockade-running enterprises as well as the use of the Tar Heel coast as an entrepôt for blockade runners.

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