Part i: Introduction; Part ii: Secession and First North Carolina Enlistments and Casualties; Part iii: Political and Social Turmoil during the War; Part iv: Unionism and Violence in the Western Counties; Part v: Military Movements, Battles, and Outcomes in the State; Part vi: References
John G. Barrett, North Carolina as a Civil War Battleground, 1861-1865 (1960).
John S. Carbone, The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina (2001).
Walter Clark, ed., Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865 (5 vols., 1901).
Paul D. Escott, Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900 (1985).
John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War (2000).
William R. Trotter, The Civil War in North Carolina (3 vols., 1988-89).
Additional Resources:
North Carolina Museum of History: https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/civilwar/
NC Civil War: http://www.nccivilwar.com/
UNC, North Carolina Collection Civil War Image Portfolio: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/civilwar/
Civil War Sites in NC (Heritage Preservation Services): https://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/NCmap.htm
Civil War Trails: http://www.civilwartrails.org/
North Carolina Civil War Experience: http://civilwarexperience.ncdcr.gov/
Oshnock, Kevin. “The Isolation Factor: Differing Loyalties of Watauga and Buncombe Counties during the Civil War.” The North Carolina Historical Review 90, no. 4 (2013): 385–413. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23608754.