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17. Ibid., p. 154, Lincoln to Rosecrans, October 4, 1863.

18. Sarah Forbes Hughes (ed.), Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, 2 vols. (New York, 1990), vol. 2, p. 74, Forbes to Lincoln, September 8, 1863.

19. Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 2008), vol. 2, p. 573; Ronald White, Jr., Lincoln (New York, 2009), p. 604.

20. David H. Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995), p. 465.

21. The Times, December 4, 1863.

22. Michael Burlingame and R. Turner Ettlinger (eds.), Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale, Ill., 1997), pp. 112–13, November 18–19, 1863.

23. Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 576.

24. Nicolay and Hay (eds.), Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 9, pp. 209–10.

25. An Englishman in the American Civil War: The Diaries of Henry Yates Thompson, 1863, ed. Sir Christopher Chancellor (New York, 1971), pp. 141–42.

26. Sam Watkins, Company Aytch (New York, 1999), p. 91.

27. An Englishman in the American Civil War, p. 152.

28. “The Journal of Robert Neve,” p. 158.

29. An Englishman in the American Civil War, p. 153.

30. Cleburne realized that he had a volunteer of exceptional quality the moment Byrne presented himself at his headquarters. Cleburne requested a commission for him on November 8, writing: “This young gentleman is eminently deserving. He left England to volunteer his services in our cause. He has been on my staff. I have found him a brave and gallant officer, highly intelligent, and devoted to our cause. I am the more anxious he should be appointed, because he sacrificed the opportunity of being commissioned in the British Service. He passed the examination required to entitle him to be placed on the list of possible appointees, before he left England, which he did upon a limited leave of absence. His leave has now expired, and, as he understands, he had forfeited his chance of being subjected in that service.” Irving A. Buck, Cleburne and His Command (Wilmington, N.Y., 1995), p. 27.

31. “The Journal of Robert Neve,” p. 161.

32. Watkins, Company Aytch, p. 95.

33. An Englishman in the American Civil War, pp. 166–67.

34. Ibid., p. 18.

35. George Templeton Strong, Diary of the Civil War, 1860–1865, ed. Allan Nevins (New York, 1962), p. 375, November 27, 1863.

36. R. W. McFarland, The Surrender of Cumberland Gap (Columbus, Ohio, 1898), p. 29.

37. For a complete description of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and De Courcy’s career as its colonel, along with scanned documents, muster rolls, and much more, see http://www.mkwe.com/home.htm.

38. Ten years later, De Courcy’s cousin died. Thus, Kind Hearts and Coronets style, though De Courcy was the fourth child of a second son, he became the 31st Baron Kingsale, Ireland’s premier barony.

39. Jeffry D. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln (New York, 2006), p. 321.

40. British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE, GB 0097, Farr MSS, vol. 10, Henry Ezechiel to Mr. Murray, January 6, 1864.

41. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, p. 306, November 12, 1863.

PART III: IF ONLY WE ARE SPARED

Chapter 27: Buckling Under Pressure

1. W. C. Ford (ed.), A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861–1865, 2 vols. (Boston, 1920), vol. 2, p. 106, Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., November 27, 1863.

2. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 514, Stephen Mallory to Bulloch, October 22, 1863.

3. Fitzgerald Ross, Cities and Camps of the Confederate States, ed. Richard Barksdale Harwell (Champaign, Ill., 1997), p. 172.

4. Stephen Z. Starr, Colonel Grenfell’s Wars (Baton Rouge, La., 1971), pp. 106–7, Ross, Cities and Camps, pp. 172–73.

5. C. Vann Woodward (ed.), Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (New Haven, 1981), p. 337, January 12, 1864.

6. Illustrated London News, April 2, 1863, p. 313.

7. Raphael Semmes, My Adventures Afloat: A Personal Memoir of My Cruises and Services (1868; repr. Baltimore, 1987), p. 629.

8. They were Baron Maximilian von Meulnier of Bremen and Julius Schroeder of Hanover.

9. Norman C. Delaney, John McIntosh