 A prolific writer, he wrote many materials between the period of 1908 and 1935 on the subjects of North Carolina history, the Civil War, and the post-war South.Perhaps Captain Ashe's most renowned publication is his booklet on the war published in 1935 and titled "A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65", in which he addressed the subject of the constitutionality of the South's secession from the United States and other similar topics pertaining to the Confederacy, Abraham Lincoln, and the war.The contents of "A Southern View..." are as follows