David, I found these references on another forum, you may be interested in....

Auman and Scarboro, "The Heroes of America in Civil War North Carolina", _North Carolina Historical REview_, Oct., 1981.

Paul R. Dotson, "Sisson's Kingdom: Loyalty Divisions in Floyd County, Virginia, 1861-1865", master's thesis, Va. Poly Tech Inst.

Daniel Ellis, _Thrilling Adventures of Daniel Ellis, Overmountain Press, 1989.

Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton, "The Heroes of America", _Journal of the Southern History Association_, no date.

John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney, _The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War_. UNC Press, 2000.

Edmund Kirke, _On the Border_, Boston: Shepherd, 1867.

Ralph Mann, "Family Group, Family Migration, and the Civil War in the Sandy Basin of Virginia", _Appalachian Journal_, Summer, 1992.

Kenneth Noe, "Red String Scare: Civil War Southwest Virginia and the Heroes of America", _North Carolina Historical Review_, July, 1992.

Henry T. Shanks, "Disloyalty To the Confederacy In Southwestern Virginia, 1861-1865", _North Carolina Historical Review_, 1944.

Georgia Lee Tatum, _Disloyalty in the Confederacy_, UNC, 1934.

William R. Trotter, _Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina, Vol. 3: The Mountains_, Blair Publishing, 1988.

Thomas Wilson, _Sufferings Endured for a Free Government or A History of the Cruelties and Atrocities of the Rebellion; "Facts stranger than Fiction"_, 1864.