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Career of "Coleman's" Scouts, an article from Confederate Veteran magazine, Vol. VI, February 1898. Submitted by some surviving Scouts, this article contains valuable information on members of the unit.
The Coleman Scouts, a study and/or thesis by Mabel Baxter Pittard. First published in 1953, this document is perhaps the best "one stop" source for information on the organization, and contains material compiled from older source documents found on this site as well as original correspondence and research.
1911 Interview with William J. (Billy) Moore, taken from Frank H. Smith's History of Maury County. Details of the capture of Sam Davis, and Moore's own hair's-breadth escape from the same fate.
The Unsinkable Mary Kate by Marion Herndon Dunn. Undated profile of the amazing Mary Kate Patterson, perhaps the boldest and most succesful of all female Confederate spies.
Samuel Davis' Sister-in-Law, an article from Confederate Veteran magazine, Vol. IV, February 1896. A letter to the magazine from Mary Kate Patterson, with details of the last time she saw Sam Davis, and of some of her wartime activities.
About Samuel Davis, an article from Confederate Veteran magazine, Vol. IV, February 1896. Mr. John C. Kennedy's remarks to the Tennessee Historical Society concerning the death of Sam Davis, and the retrieval of his body for reinterment at his home.
"Mother, I do not hate to die" by James Cameron Phifer The Sam Davis story, from the February, 1967 issue of American Heritage. (Off-site link)