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5. Kincaid, The Wilderness Road, p. 271.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Frank E. Vandiver (ed.), The Civil War Diary of Josiah Gorgas (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1947), p. 62, September 17, 1863.
9. NARA, M552, roll 26, Compiled Military Service Record, De Courcy to Colonel Richmond, September 18, 1863.
10. http://www.mkwe.com/ohio/pages/linn-03.htm, 16th Ohio Volunteers, Diary and Letters of Thomas Buchannan Linn, September 21, 1863.
11. NARA, RG9, Loring to Burnside, September 18, 1863.
12. OR, ser. 1, vol. 30/3, doc. 52, p. 943, General Field Orders No. 15.
13. Hudson Strode, Jefferson Davis: Confederate President, 3 vols. (New York, 1959), vol. 2, p. 475.
14. Francis W. Dawson, Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861–1865, ed. Bell I. Wiley (Baton Rouge, La., 1980), p. 100.
15. Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie, ed. Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (New York, 1906), p. 241.
16. Brian Holden Reid, The American Civil War, p. 132.
17. Sam Watkins, Company Aytch (New York, 1999), p. 88.
18. Ibid., p. 89.
19. Illustrated London News, December 26, 1863.
20. Dawson, Reminiscences, p. 102.
21. Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, ed. Gary Gallagher (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1989), p. 301. Vizetelly’s brother claimed that he offered to deliver a message for Longstreet during the battle, since all the other couriers had been picked off by Federal sharpshooters. “Upon his return to the General’s headquarters, Longstreet commissioned him an ‘honorary captain’ in the Confederate States Army.” William Stanley Hoole, p. 104. It is possible that Vizetelly delivered messages, but not during a battle that he missed.
22. Dawson, Reminiscences, p. 102.
23. Emory University, Gregory MSS, Lawley to Gregory, September 16, 1863.
24. Julia Miele Rodas, “More Than a Civil (War) Friendship: Anthony Trollope and Frank Lawley,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, 60/1 (1998), pp. 39–60, at p. 48, Morris to Lawley, September 24, 1863.
25. Emory University, Gregory MSS, box 24, Lawley to Gregory, September 16, 1863.
26. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals (New York, 2005), p. 556.
27. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger (eds.), Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale, Ill., 1997), p. 84, September 11, 1863.
28. Frederic William Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (New York, 1906), p. 119.
29. It should be noted that Seward already suspected that the ships had been detained. Leslie Stephen dismissed Seward as a lightweight after he confused John Stuart Mill with Richard Monckton Milnes. Yet Seward was not so different than the MP who remarked to an American visitor that Lee would presumably follow up his Gettysburg victory by taking Washington and New Orleans, since “New Orleans is about 100 miles from Washington, I think?” J. G. Randall, Lincoln the President, 4 vols.; vol. 3: Midstream (New York, 1953), p. 317.
30. Maitland, Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, p. 122.
31. An Englishman in the American Civil War: The Diaries of Henry Yates Thompson, 1863, ed. Sir Christopher Chancellor (New York, 1971), p. 86.
32. Ibid., p. 98.
33. Randall, Lincoln the President, p. 370.
34. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes (eds.), Private and Confidential: Letters from British Ministers in Washington to the Foreign Secretaries (Selinsgrove, Pa., 1993), p. 335.
35. Philip Van Doren Stern, When the Guns Roared: World Aspects of the American Civil War (New York, 1965), p. 234.
36. “I never was in such a town or place in all my life,” Milne wrote admiringly. He believed that below the surface of hostility was a deep bond between the two countries that it was his duty to nurture. Somerset RO, Somerset MSS, D/RA/A/2a/34/32, Milne to