Civil War Resources
Civil War Collection at North Carolina Digital Collections (NC Archives)
New Bern mentioned in Civil War Era Poems and Songs from the Library of Congress:
Adjutant Stearns by William A. Stearns (book about a Massachusetts soldier killed at the Battle of New Bern, published 1862)
Civil War Sketchbook of Cpl. Joseph Shadek, Co. A, 8th Connecticut (includes scenes of Eastern NC, Burnside's Expedition).
Eugene Goodwin Diary (soldier with the 99th NY Infantry, stationed in Eastern North Carolina from October 1863 to June 1864)
Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, 1861-1864 by Alexander Davis Betts
The Fate of a Coward (drawing from NY Historical Society)
Herbert E. Valentine Collection at Wake Forest University
Horace K. Ford Papers, 1862-1863, written from New Bern and Beaufort.
Life of a Confederate Soldier by John B. Ernul
Massachusetts memorial to her soldiers and sailors who died in the Department of No. Carolina, 1861-1865 by James Browne Gardner (1909); also available at the Internet Archive
Newbern as it was, and is, 1862
North Carolina Revisited by William Garrison Reed, 44th Massachusetts (1884 account with photographs of Eastern North Carolina).
Report of state commission for erection of monument to Ninth New Jersey volunteers at New Berne, North Carolina. Dedication (1905); also available at the Internet Archive