A World on Fire_ Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman [521]
21. OR, ser. 1, vol. 39/3, p. 162, Sherman to Grant, October 9, 1864; OR, ser. 1, vol. 39/3, p. 377, Sherman to Thomas, October 20, 1864.
22. Frank E. Vandiver (ed.), The Civil War Diary of General Josiah Gorgas (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1947), p. 157, December 20, 1864.
23. Thomas Taylor, Running the Blockade (Annapolis, Md., repr. 1995), p. 140.
24. The Times, February 7, 1865.
25. Taylor, Running the Blockade, p. 141.
26. John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Urbane, Ill., 1958), p. 467, December 27, 1864.
27. ORN, ser 2, vol. 3, pp. 1253–56, Benjamin to Mason and Slidell, December 27, 1864.
28. Craig A. Bauer, “The Last Effort: The Secret Mission of the Confederate Diplomat, Duncan F. Kenner,” Louisiana History, 22 (1981).
29. The Times, March 8, 1865.
30. South Carolina Historical Society, Feilden-Smythe MSS, Feilden to Julia Feilden, December 21, 1865.
31. “It does seem strange,” he wrote on January 4, 1865, in a letter to William Porcher Miles, the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. He had served three different generals and been recommended for promotion on three separate occasions, without success. “I expect I know more of the localities and the organization of the troops than any other AA general in the office.” NARA, Feilden military records, Feilden to Porcher Miles, January 4, 1865.
32. South Carolina Historical Society, Feilden-Smythe MSS, Feilden to Julia Feilden, January 5, 1865.
33. James Ford Rhodes, “Who Burned Columbia?,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 35 (1901), p. 268.
34. South Carolina Historical Society, Feilden-Smythe MSS, Feilden to Julia Feilden, January 5, 1865.
35. The Hon. Maurice Berkeley Portman, third son of Viscount Portman, and an old friend of Lord Wharncliffe’s, had recently arrived from Canada to serve under General Wade Hampton. He told Wharncliffe that the wife of one acquaintance had allegedly been bayoneted to the wall and her house set on fire, another had been “violated,” and a third stripped and forced to dance for the soldiers. Sheffield Archives, WHM 461 (18), identified by the author as Maurice B. Portman, January 10, 1865. Portman’s judgment of the situation was utterly absurd. Despite having witnessed the first battle for Fort Fisher, and visited Lee’s headquarters in Petersburg, he still wrote as though the South was going to win.
36. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, p. 485, January 23, 1865.
37. Bauer, “The Last Effort,” p. 80.
38. National Archives of Canada, Burley, Extradition MSS, Sec. C-1, RG 13, vol. 987, Robert Harrison to John Macdonald, February 4, 1865.
39. Stephen Z. Starr, Colonel Grenfell’s Wars (Baton Rouge, La., 1971), p. 210.
40. See ibid., p. 212, and PRO FO, 5/1155, on the Grenfell correspondence.
41. Starr, Colonel Grenfell’s Wars, p. 212.
42. Buckinghamshire, D11/1/3.c, memorandum by Joseph Wheeler.
43. Diary of Gideon Welles, 3 vols. (Boston, 1911), vol. 2, p. 229, January 21, 1865. The source for the footnote is OR, ser. 1, vol. 46, 3, p. 38, Grant to Seward, March 19, 1864.
44. “Bright-Sumner Letters,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 46 (1913), p. 132, Bright to Sumner, January 26, 1865.
45. Bauer, “The Last Effort,” p. 86.
Chapter 36: “Richmond Tomorrow”
1. West Sussex RO, Lyons MSS, box 299, Malet to Lyons, February 24, 1865.
2. PRO 30/22/38, Lyons to Russell, December 27, 1864.
3. Arthur Irwin Dasent, John Thadeus Delane, Editor of “The Times,” 2 vols. (London, 1908), vol. 2, p. 135, Delane to Dasent, December 25, 1864; p. 136, Delane to Dasent, December 26, 1864.
4. Sheffield, WHM461/6, Spence to Wharncliffe, January 5, 1865.
5. The controversy rescued the year-old