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17 Memoirs of the War, by Capt. Ephraim A. Wilson, p. 112; Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 43.
Springtime of Promise
1 Official Records, Vol. X, Part 1, p. 396.
2 Ibid., Vol. VI, p. 432.
3 Ibid., p. 832.
4 B. & L., Vol. II, pp. 25-29.
5 Official Records, Vol. VI, p. 889.
6 There are excellent accounts of the running of the forts in B. & L., Vol. II, pp. 33-91.
7 B. & L., Vol. II, p. 20.
8 Ohio at Shiloh: Report of the Commission, pp. 79-80.
9 The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, pp. 143-45.
10 Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, pp. 62-63.
11 History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by C. C. Briant, pp. 130-31.
12 Ibid., p. 138.
13 Official Records, Vol. X, Part 2, pp. 166, 172, 214.
14 Ibid., p. 548.
15 Ibid., p. 252.
16 For a discussion of this point, see Van Horne, Vol. I, p. 129.
Invitation to General Lee
1 Mr. Lincoln’s Army, pp. 109-12.
2 B. & L., Vol. I, pp. 693-700. Americans often speak of Merrimac as the world’s first ironclad warship; actually when Merrimac was rebuilt the British navy had two ironclads in commission and the French had one.
3 Ibid., pp. 701-3, 719-50.
4 The point is stressed by Col. John Taylor Wood, CSA, in B. & L., Vol. I, p. 711.
5 By all odds the best account of the whole valley operation is the one contained in Col. G. F. R. Henderson’s classic biography, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War.
Delusion and Defeat
1 The point is discussed in detail in Mr. Lincoln’s Army, pp. 131-33.
2 Cox, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 253; Official Records, Vol. XI, Part 3, p. 340.
3 Ibid., pp. 250-51.
4 B. & L., Vol. II, p. 337.
5 Official Records, Vol. XI, Part 3, p. 266.
6 B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 394-95.
Chapter Six: TURNING POINT
Kill, Confiscate or Destroy
1 Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and General, pp. 284-88, 315; Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 130-32.
2 Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, pp. 306-14, 330.
3 The Nineteenth Illinois, by J. Henry Haynie, pp. 131-39, 144-46, 159, 165, 167; Three Years with the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland, by Angus L. Waddle, p. 17; Cox, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 436; Official Records, Vol. X, Part 2, pp. 212-13. Details about Turchin’s court-martial can be found in Official Records, Vol. XVI, Part 2, pp. 273-78.
4 The Nineteenth Illinois, p. 171.
5 Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Letters and Diary of the Late Charles W. Wills, pp. 132, 134.
6 Ibid., p. 74.
7 Official Records, Vol. XVII, Part 2, p. 81; The History of Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, p. 50.
8 History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, pp. 26-27, 31; Letters from the Army, by B. F. Stevenson, p. 247; With the Rank and File, by Thomas J. Ford, p. 120. Some mention should be made of the Union brigadier in Louisiana who solemnly warned his troops not to catch any chickens or geese in such a clumsy way as to get bitten (History of the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry).
9 Official Records, Vol. XVI, Part 1, p. 640. Perfectly typical of the Union soldier’s attitude is the blunt remark, “We thought anything belonging to a secessionist was for plunder,” in the manuscript letters of Elmer J. Barker, 5th New York Cavalry.
10 Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 125-26.
11 Official Records, Vol. XVI, Part 1, p. 644.
12 Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and Youngest Sister, edited by Jesse Grant Cramer, pp. 69, 88; General Grant’s Letters to a Friend, with Introduction and Notes by James Grant Wilson, p. 27.
13 Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, pp. 317-19; Memoirs of a Volunteer, pp. 96, 103.
14 Mr. Lincoln’s Army, pp. 155-56.
Cheers in the Starlight
1 Official Records, Vol. XI, Part 3, pp. 337-38.
2 Pope’s weird account of this campaign and battle is in B. & L., Vol. II, pp. 449-94.
3 The Living Lincoln, pp. 492, 493-94.
4 Mr. Lincoln’s Army, pp. 51-54.
High-Water Mark
1 Official Records, Vol. XVI, Part 2, p. 497. For a similar query sent by Lincoln to Gen. Horatio G. Wright at Cincinnati, see p. 496; Buell