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’s reply is p. 500.

2 Ibid., p. 421.

3 Ibid., Vol. XVII, Part 2, p. 222.

4 Mr. Lincoln’s Army, pp. 167-69.

5 A first-rate study of the Antietam campaign is to be found in The Antietam and Fredericksburg, by Francis W. Palfrey.

6 B. & L., Vol. II, p. 627.

7 For a good brief account of Antietam, see Jacob Cox in B. & L., Vol. II, pp. 630-60.


Chapter Seven: I SEE NO END

The Best There Was in the Ranch

1 Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Jacob Cox, Vol. I, pp. 358-61.

2 The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, pp. 164-65.

3 Ibid., pp. 166, 185.

4 B. & L., p. 43. This volume contains an extensive discussion of the Kentucky campaign, written by General Buell. Buell was in many ways an unfortunate man; in no way more unfortunate than in the fact that his lengthy, well-reasoned explanations of the things he did during the war have a stodgy, pedestrian quality which makes them all but literally unreadable. See also The Story of a Thousand, by Albion W. Tourgee, p. 70 ff.

5 History of the 10th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, pp. 171-172; Official Records, Vol. XVI, Part 1, pp. 662, 693.

6 Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 185-95; Co. Aytch: Maury Gray’s First Tennessee Regiment, by Sam R. Watkins, p. 81; Manuscript diary of Henry Mortimer Hempstead, 2nd Michigan Cavalry.

7 Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 197-99, 205; Official Records, Vol. XVI, Part 2, pp. 622, 626-27.

8 B. & L., Vol. II, pp. 737-57; History of Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, pp. 86, 89.

9 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 420.

There Was No Patience

1 History of the 38th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 66.

2 A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, pp. 174-75.

3 Three Years in the Army: The Story of the 13th Massachusetts Volunteers, by Charles E. Davis, Jr., pp. 24-26.

4 Army Letters, 1861-1865, by Oliver Willcox Norton, p. 27.

5 History of the 10th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 170; Mr. Lincoln’s Army, p. 199.

6 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, compiled by a committee, p. 26; History of the 24th Michigan of the Iron Brigade, by O. B. Curtis, p. 65.

7 History of Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, p. 67.

8 Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, p. 91; A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, p. 147; Downing’s War Diary, pp. 80, 92; History of the 16th Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, p. 35.

9 The Story of a Cavalry Regiment, p. 404.

10 History of the 38th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 18; History of the 15th Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 85; The Story of a Cavalry Regiment, pp. 54-55.

11 The Wild Riders of the First Kentucky Cavalry, pp. 162, 164.

12 Official Records, Vol. XX, Part 2, p. 69.

13 The Living Lincoln, pp. 519-20, 522; Official Records, Series 3, Vol. II, pp. 892-97.

Thin Moon and Cold Mist

1 For an extended discussion of the difficulty in regard to the pontoons, see Glory Road, pp. 34-39.

2 Any reader who wants source references for Fredericksburg will find a tabulation in the “Notes” section of the afore-mentioned Glory Road.

3 For various glimpses of Rosecrans, see History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by William Wirt Calkins, p. 44; Greene County Soldiers in the Late War, by Ira S. Owens, p. 27; Cox, op. cit. Vol. I, pp. 111-12, 127, 133.

4 The Life of Major General George H. Thomas, pp. 75-76, 84-89.

5 Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 228-29; History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 176.

6 Ibid., pp. 194-95; History of the 34th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Edwin W. Payne, pp. 43-44.

7 Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 234-38; B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 620-29.

8 Official Records, Vol. XX, Part 1, p. 234.

9 The Life of Major General George H. Thomas, p. 97.

10 With the Rank and File, p. 9; History of the 38th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, pp. 61-63; Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, by Michael H. Fitch, pp. 105-8; Greene County Soldiers in the Late War, pp. 33-35.

Down the River

1 Official Records, Vol.

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