References

The primary sources came from Union soldiers, pro-Union newspapers, and Confederate citizens and newspapers in North Carolina.  The secondary sources come from three scholarly books and one article that focus on Sherman’s March through the South, and analyze Sherman’s March within North Carolina

Primary Sources

MANUSCRIPTS

Elizabeth Collier Diary, 1861-1865. The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. University of Chapel Hill.

Charlotte Grimes. "Sketches of My Life." The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. University of Chapel Hill.

PUBLISHED

Barrett, John and Buck W. Yearns, eds. North Carolina Civil War Documentary. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Bull, Rice. Soldiering: The Civil War Diary of Rice C. Bull, 123rd New York Volunteer Infantry. Edited by K. Jack Bauer. San Rafael: Presidio Press, 1977.

Clarke, Mary Bayard. Live Your Own Life: The Family Papers of Mary Bayard Clarke, 1854-1886. Edited by Terrell Crow and Mary Barden. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Edmondston, Catherine.  Journal of a Secesh Lady: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston . Edited by Beth Crabtree and James Patton. Raleigh, North Carolina: Division of Archives and History, 1979.

Hale Jr., Edward Jones. "Sherman's Bummers and Some of Their Work." Southern Historical Society Papers, 12 (July-August-September, 1884): 427-428.

Johnson, Bob and Charles S. Norwood, eds. History of Wayne County, North Carolina: A Collection of Historical Stories. Goldsboro, North Carolina: Wayne County Historical Association, 1979.

Jones, Katharine, ed. When Sherman Came: Southern Women and the “Great March.” Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Inc., 1964.

Nichols, George. The Story of the Great March: From the Diary of a Staff Officer.  Edited by Maurice Filler. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers, 1984.

Osborn, Thomas. The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last Campaign. Edited by Richard Harwell, William McFeely and Philip Racine. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

Sherman, William. Home Letters of General Sherman. Edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

Sherman, William. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman. Edited by Charles Royster. New York: Viking Press, 1990.

Sherman, William. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865.  Edited by Jean V. Berlin and Brooks D. Simpson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Spencer, Cornelia. The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina. New York: Watchman Publishing Company, 1866.

The War of Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Series I, Vol. XLVII, Part I. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.

The War of Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Series I, Vol. XLVII, Part II. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.

The War of Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Series I, Vol. XLVII, Part III. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.

NEWSPAPERS

"Famine at Fayettville." Hillsborough Recorder. March 22, 1865. State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina.

"From Fayetteville." Wadesboro North Carolina Argus. March 30, 1865. State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Sherman: Glorious News." Wilmington Herald of the Union. March 15, 1865. State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina.

“Sherman, the Raider." Wilmington Herald of the Union. March 11, 1865. State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina.

"Stealing Reduced to Science." Raleigh Daily Confederate. March 31, 1865. State Library of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Secondary Sources

Barrett, John. Sherman's March through the Carolinas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956.

Campbell, Jacqueline. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Gallagher, Gary. The Union War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Glatthaar, Joseph. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. New York: New York University Press, 1985.

Hart, B. H. Liddell. Strategy. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1960.

Manning, Chandra. “The Order of Nature Would Be Reversed: Slavery and the North Carolina Gubernatorial Election of 1864.” In North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, edited by Paul Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

McNeill, William. "A Survey of Confederate Soldier Morale During Sherman's Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas." Georgia Historical Quarterly 55, no. 1 (Spring 1971): 1-25.

McPherson, James. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

.