Suggested Reading List
North Carolina Quakers and the Civil War
*All items listed below are available for consultation in the Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC. Many are also available in other libraries and some are still in print and available for purchase. This is only a selected list of recommended sources. For additional information, see the Friends Historical Collection Web site at www.guilford.edu/fhc or contact us.
- Brock, Peter. Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2002 [Quaker] UB342.U5 L53 2002
Cartland, Fernando G. Southern Heroes; or, Friends in War Time. Riverside Press, 1895. [Quaker] E540.F8 C3 - Hinshaw, Seth B. Mary Barker Hinshaw, Quaker: A Story of Carolina Friends in Civil War Times. Friends United Press and North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1982. [Quaker] BX 7791.H4 1982
- Hilty, Hiram. By Land and By Sea: Quakers Confront Slavery and Its Aftermath in North Carolina. North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1993. [Quaker] E445.N8 H54 1993
- Junk, Cheryl Fradette. ""Good Soldiers of Christ:" A Case Study of North Carolina Quaker Resistance to the Civil War," The Southern Friend 15 (Spring 1993), 21 - 57. [Quaker Periodicals]
- North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends. An Account of the Sufferings of Friends of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, in Support of Their Testimony Against War, from 1861 to 1865. Press of W. K. Boyle, 1868. [Quaker] E540.F8 F73
- Weeks, Stephen B. Southern Quakers and Slavery: A Study in Institutional History. Johns Hopkins Press, 1896. [Quaker] E 441 .W4
- Wright, Edward Needles. Conscientious Objectors in the Civil War. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1931. [Quaker] UB342.U5 W7
- Zuber, Richard L. "Conscientious Objectors in the Confederacy: The Quakers in North Carolina," Quaker History 67 (Spring 1978), 1 - 19.
