Calthorpe, Somerset John Gough (1856), Letters from Headquarters: Or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea, by an Officer on the Staff, London: John Murray, p. 337, OCLC3613905. The letters have a modern reprint as Cadogan's Crimea, Atheneum Books, 1980
"Not only was he was ever ready to minister to the pressing necessities of the married men but many officers were in the moment of difficulty succoured by his lordship".Ryan (1855b), pp. 19–20 Ryan, George (1855b), Was Lord Cardigan a Hero at Balaklava?, London: James Field & Co., OCLC45091011
George Ryan's assessment of casualties, in a deliberate contradiction of Cardigan's claims of "two-thirds ... destroyed" was: Officers and men killed 80; wounded 142; prisoners 57. Ryan (1855b), p. 30 Ryan, George (1855b), Was Lord Cardigan a Hero at Balaklava?, London: James Field & Co., OCLC45091011
Woodford, Alexander (1856), Report of the Board of General Officers Appointed to Inquire into the Statements Contained in the Reports of Sir John McNeill and Colonel Tulloch, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, pp. 26–30, OCLC62431432
Brudenell, James Thomas (1855), Eight months on active service, or, A diary of a general officer of cavalry, in 1854, London: W. Clowes & Sons, p. 114, OCLC367558095
Ryan (1855a), p. 43. Ryan, George (1855a), Our Heroes of the Crimea, Being Biographical Sketches of Our Military Officers, from the General Commanding-in-Chief to the Subaltern, London: Routledge, OCLC85103360
