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8 Drum Taps in Dixie: Memories of a Drummer Boy, 1861-1865, by Delavan S. Miller, p. 30; Civil War Papers Read before the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vol. II, p. 448; Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, written by One of the Boys, pp. 44-46.
9 Journal History of the 29th Ohio Veteran Volunteers, by J. Hamp SeCheverell, p. 21; History of the 9th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, p. 11; Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Letters and Diary of the Late Charles Wills, pp. 14, 21.
10 Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 48-50.
11 History of the 124th Regiment, N.Y.S.V., by Charles H. Weygant, p. 32; History of the 33rd Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by Isaac H. Elliott and Virgil G. Way, pp. 7-8; The Eagle Regiment: 8th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, by a “Non-Vet” of Company H, pp. 40-49, 75 et seq.
12 Military Essays and Recollections: Papers Read before the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vol. III, p. 402; A Soldier Boy’s Letters to his Father and Mother, 1861-65, by Chauncey H. Cooke, p. 3; Diary of an Ohio Volunteer, by A Musician, Co. H, 19th Regiment, p. 15; Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 84-85.
13 Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, Company D. 15th Illinois Infantry, p. 12; A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, p. 20; B. & L., Vol. I, pp. 94-95.
14 History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by William R. Hartpence, p. 36; J. S. Clark, op. cit., p. 56; Military History and Reminiscences of the 13th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, prepared by a committee of the regiment, p. 18. An eastern soldier remarked caustically: “The ignorance by our officers has become proverbial and patent to the men and hence the present low standard of discipline in the army”. (Manuscript letters of James Gillette, 4th Maryland Volunteers.)
15 An amusing account of Lincoln’s war experience is to be found in Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Vol. I, pp. 154-57, 386.
In Time of Revolution
1 An excellent study of the problem in respect to the border states is E. C. Smith, op. cit. There is a good brief discussion in Clement Eaton’s A History of the Southern Confederacy, pp. 34-40.
2 Life of General Nathaniel Lyon, by Ashbel Woodward, pp. 25-30, 204-31, 235, 242.
3 E. C. Smith, op. cit., pp. 122-30, 228-30; Official Records, Vol. I, pp. 654, 656-57 669-70; B. & L., Vol. I, pp. 119-20.
4 Official Records, Vol. I, p. 675; B. & L., Vol. I, p. 171; The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, by John Fiske, pp. 10-12.
5 Fiske, op. cit., pp. 14-18; Official Records, Vol. III, p. 4; E. C. Smith, op. cit., pp. 234-36; The Union Cause in St. Louis in 1861, by Robert J. Rombauer, pp. 218, 224. Mr. Rombauer doubts very much that Lyon visited the militia camp in woman’s dress. Aside from the inherent difficulty of dressing Nathaniel Lyon so that he would look at all feminine, Mr. Rombauer remarks that as a competent officer Lyon undoubtedly had other sources of information about doings in the southern camp.
6 Official Records, Vol. III, p. 5; Rombauer, op. cit., pp. 233-39; E. C. Smith, op. cit., pp. 236-38.
7 Ibid., pp. 240, 244-50; Woodward, op. cit., p. 261; Forty-six Years in the Army, by Lt. Gen. John M. Schofield, pp. 33-34.
8 B. & L., Vol. I, pp. 266-67; E. C. Smith, op. cit., p. 252.
The Important First Trick
1 Wooden Nutmegs at Bull Run, by Frinkle Fry, p. 31; Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment, by John L. Cunningham, p. 21; Rebellion Record, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 50; The Soldier Boy’s Diary Book; or, Memorandums