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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
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First-Person Accounts
Reference
Slavery / Emancipation
Taylor, Michael W., ed. The Cry is War,
War, War: The Civil War Correspondence of Lts. Burwell Thomas Cotton and
George Job Huntley, Thirty-fourth Regiment North Carolina Troops, Pender-Scales
Brigade of the Light Division, Stonewall Jackson's and A. P. Hill's Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, 1994.
- Junior officers in the Thirty-fourth North
Carolina describe army life and the effects of war on soldiers.
———. To Drive the Enemy from Southern Soil:
The Letters of Col. Francis Marion Parker and the History of the Thirtieth
Regiment North Carolina Troops. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, 1998.
- The stoic colonel described army life to his
wife, frequently invoking a strong sense of duty to the Confederacy.
Speer, Allen Paul, ed. Voices from Cemetery
Hill: The Civil War Diary, Reports, and Letters of Colonel William Henry
Asbury Speer (1861–1864). Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press,
1997.
- Colonel Speer of Yadkin County served in eastern
North Carolina and northern Virginia and in 1862 was a prisoner of war.
Wellman, Manly Wade. Rebel Boast: First
at Bethel—Last at Appomattox. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1956.
- Diaries and correspondence of five cousins
in the Forty-third Regiment North Carolina Troops served as primary sources
for this lively narrative.
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