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.