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U.S. Army Military History Institute Civil War-Battles-1862 East 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021 29 Oct 2010 U.S. Army Military History Institute Civil War-Battles-1862 East 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021 29 Oct 2010 BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION (Jan-Mar 1862) A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources CONTENTS General Histories...p.1 Specific Engagements -Roanoke Island (8 Feb)...p.3 -New Bern (14 Mar)...p.3 -Dismal Swamp (19 Apr)...p.4 GENERAL HISTORIES Adams, William, editor. "Up the Beach and into Battle." Civil War Times Illustrated (Oct 1986): pp. 32-34 & 43-44. Per. Avery, William B. The Marine Artillery with the Burnside Expedition and the Battle of Camden, N.C. Providence, RI: N.B. Williams, 1880. 28 p. E464.M5.1991v33. Barrett, John G. The Civil War in North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: U NC, 1963. 484 p. E573.B3. See Chap. V. Branch, Paul. Fort Macon: A History. Charleston, SC: Nautical & Aviation, 1999. 292 p. F264.F67.B73. See Chap. 6 _____. The Siege of Fort Macon. n.p., 1982. 106 p. E473.B72. Burnside, Ambrose E. "The Burnside Expedition." In Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. 1. NY: Yoseloff, 1956. pp. 660-70. E470.B346v1. _____. The Burnside Expedition. Providence, RI: N.B. Williams, Williams, 1882. 33 p. E464.M5.1991v33. Chenery, William H. Reminiscences of the Burnside Expedition. Providence, RI: Soldiers & Sailors Historical Society of Rhode Island, 1905. 48 p. E464.M5.1991v38. Burnside Expedition, 1862 p.2 Denny, Joseph W. Wearing the Blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass. Volunteer Infantry, with Burnside's Coast Division. Worcester, MA: Putnam & Davis, 1879. 523 p. E513.5.25thD47. Edmands, Thomas F. "Operations in North Carolina, 1861-1862." In Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 9. Boston: By the Society, 1912. pp. 53-84. E470.M65v9. Hinds, John W. Invasion and Conquest of North Carolina: Anatomy of a Gunboat War. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street, 1998. 299 p. E591.H56. On coastal war after invasion. Kaufhold, Jack. "Old Burney's Shining Hour." America's Civil War (Jul 1990): pp. 26-33. Per. Long, David E. “Burnside when he was Brilliant: Ambrose Burnside and Union Combined Operations in Pamlico Sound.” In Union Combined Operations in the Civil War. NY: Fordham, 2010. pp. 10-22. E491.U54. McCarter, John G. How Rogers and I Made our First and Second Excursion to the Old "Tar Heel" State: 1862-1903. Boston: F. Wood, 1903. 38 p. E513.5.25thM3. Mallison, Fred M. The Civil War on the Outer Banks: A History of the Late Rebellion along the Coast of North Carolina From Carteret to Currituck. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998. 243 p. E524.M35. Sauers, Richard A. "General Ambrose E. Burnside's 1862 North Carolina Campaign: A Thesis in History." MA thesis, PA State, 1987. 600 p. E473.3.S28. _____. "Laurels for Burnside: The Invasion of North Carolina, January-July 1862." Blue & Gray (May 1988): 8-15, 17-21 & 44-62. Per. _____. “A Succession of Honorable Victories’: The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1996. 542 p. E473.3.S282. _____, & Gorges, William D. The Battle of New Bern and Related Sites in Craven County, N.C., 1861-1865. New Bern, NC: Griffin & Tilghman, 1994. 67 p. E473.34.S38. Skaggs, David C. “A Thorn, Not a Dagger: Strategic Implications of Ambrose Burnside’s North Carolina Campaign. In Union Combined Operations in the Civil War, cited above. pp. 23-31. E491.U54. Sprague, A.B.R. "The Burnside Expedition." In Civil War Papers (MOLLUS, MA, Vol. 2). Boston: For the Commandery, 1900. pp. 427-46. E464M5.1991v53. Stackpole, J. Lewis. "The Department of North Carolina under General Foster, July 1862 to July 1863." In Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 9. Boston: By the Society, 1912. pp. 85-110. E470.M65v9. Trudeau, Noah A. “Burnside’s Web-Footed Warriors.” MHQ (Summer 2000): pp. 76-84. Per. Burnside Expedition, 1862 p.3 ROANOKE ISLAND Andrew, Richard. “Disaster at Roanoke Island.” America’s Civil War (Feb 1995): pp. 49-55. Per. Buttgenbach, Walter J. "Attack on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 7 and 8, 1862." Journal of the United States Artillery (1913): pp. 47-58. Per. Click, Patricia. Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedman’s Colony, 1862-1867. Chapel Hill, NC: U NC, 2001. 302 p. F262.R4.C55. Daly, Robert W. "Burnside's Amphibious Division." Marine Corps Gazette (Dec 1951): pp. 30-37. Per. Luvaas, Jay. "Burnside's Roanoke Island Campaign." Civil War Times Illustrated (Dec 1968): pp. 4-11 & 43-48. Per. Morrill, Dan L. The Civil War in the Carolinas. Charleston, SC: Nautical & Aviation Pub, 2002. pp. 237-68. E524.M67. Robertson, James I., Jr. "The Roanoke Island Expedition: Observations of a Massachusetts Soldier." [James Glazier, 23d MA] Civil War History (Dec 1966): pp. 321-46. Per. Sauers, Richard A. "The Confederate Congress and the Loss of Roanoke Island." Civil War History (Jun 1994); pp.134-50. Per. Thomas, Emory M. "The Lost Confederates of Roanoke." Civil War Times Illustrated (May 1976): pp. 10-17. Per. Traver, Lorenzo. Burnside Expedition in North Carolina: Battles of Roanoke Island and Elizabeth City. Providence, RI: N.B. Williams, 1880. 31 p. E464M5.1991v33. Welch, William L. The Burnside Expedition and the Engagement at Roanoke Island. Providence, RI: Soldiers & Sailors Historical Society of Rhode Island, 1890. 48 p. E464.M5.1991v35. NEW BERN Berg, Gordon. “New Bern, North Carolina.” Civil War Times (Feb 2009): pp. 24-25. Per. “Field guide” to historic sites. Browne, F.W. "The Battle of Newbern, N.C." In G.A.R. War Papers. Cincinnati, OH: Fred C. Jones Post, 1891. pp. 30-34. E464.G72v1. Burnside Expedition, 1862 p.4 Curtis, William A. "A Journal of Reminiscences of the War: 1, Sketches of Company 'A,' 2nd Regiment of North Carolina Cavalry, from May 1st, 1816, to January 1st, 1862; 2, Battle of Newbern, March 14th, 1862." Our Living and Our Dead (1875): pp. 36- 44 & 281-90. E482.O93v2. Gaines, E.W. "Fayette Artillery: The Movement on New Berne Thirty-five Years Ago, a Richmond Battery's Part." Southern Historical Society Papers 25 (1897): pp. 288-297. E483.7.S76v25. Hopkins, George G. "The Battle of Newburn as I Saw It." In Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion (MOLLUS, NY, Vol. 2). NY: Putnam's, 1907. pp. 138-147. E464.M5.1991v21. Ward, Richard A. "An Amphibious Primer: Battle for New Bern." Marine Corps Gazette (Aug 1952): pp. 36-42. Per. DISMAL SWAMP von Deck, Joseph F. “Dismal Day at Dismal Swamp.” America’s Civil War (Jul 1996): pp. 38-44 & 82. Per. 9th New York Infantry. .
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