Civil War in Western North Carolina

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CIVIL WAR

In Western North Carolina

Asheville Armory, 1862-1863 (See Noe, Kenneth, ed.)
Battle of Asheville
Civil War Camps
Civil War Battles
Confederate Guerrillas
Desertion
Shelton Laurel Massacre
Thomas' Legion
Unionist Guerrillas

Bibliography:

Inscoe, John C. and Gordon B McKinney.

The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Noe, Kenneth W. and Shannon H.Wilson, eds.

The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

O'Brian, Sean Michael.

Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865. Westport, CN & London: Praeger, 1999.

Stringfield, William W.,

"North Carolina Cherokees," The North Carolina Booklet, Vol. 3, No. 2, July 1903.

Trotter, William R..

Bushwhackers!: The Civil War in North Carolina, Vol. II, The Mountains, Greensboro: Signal Research ,Inc., 1988.

Early discussion of a Military Academy at Asheville is included in this exchange in the Legislative Acts or Legal Proceedings in the National Advocate, Volume: IV;Issue: 956; Page: [2], January 6, 1816.

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