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This Hallowed Ground - Bruce Catton [271]

By Root 1923 0
XVII, Part 2, pp. 274, 275, 278, for McClernand’s letters to Stanton. His confidential orders, signed by Stanton and dated October 20, 1862, are in the same volume, p. 282.

2 Ibid., pp. 300, 302.

3 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 426.

4 Ibid., pp. 427-28.

5 Official Records, Vol. XVII, Part 2, pp. 400, 401-2, 420.

6 Ibid., p. 425.

7 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, pp. 430-31. There is an appreciative discussion of the little game in Earl Schenck Miers’ The Web of Victory, pp. 34-35. Lloyd Lewis also examines it in his Sherman, Fighting Prophet.

8 Under the Old Flag, by James Harrison Wilson, Vol. I, p. 141.

9 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, pp. 434-35.

10 Lewis, op. cit., pp. 259-60.

11 Official Records, Vol. XVII, Part 2, p. 534.

12 Lewis, op. cit., p. 262.


Chapter Eight: SWING OF THE PENDULUM

The Hour of Darkness

1 Manuscript Letters of John W. Chase; War Letters of William Thompson Lusk, pp. 245, 256.

2 Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, pp. 153-54; Memoirs of the War, by Capt. Ephraim A. Wilson, pp. 151-52; Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, p. 118; Official Records, Vol. XX, Part 2, pp. 318, 323.

3 Gosnell, op. cit., p. 146; Story of the 83rd Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by Joseph Grecian, p. 22; Letters from the Army, p. 184.

4 Manuscript letters of Isaac Jackson, 83rd Ohio; manuscript letters of George L. Lang, 12th Wisconsin; History of the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 120, pasuim.

5 Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. V, pp. 741-88; Iowa and the Rebellion, by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, pp. 661-63.

6 Letters from the Army, p. 174; Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diarius of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 54.

7 Mr. Lincoln’s Army, p. 299.

8 “Some Recollections of Grant,” by S. H. M. Byers, from The Annals of War Written by Leading Participants, pp. 342-43.

9 Three Years with the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland, pp. 46, 48; Official Records, Vol. XX, Part 1, p. 197.

10 “Characteristics of the Armies,” by H. V. Redfield, from The Annals of the War, pp. 361-65. Note an eastern soldier’s comment: “In manners, in the conduct of soldiers and the discipline, these bundles of rags, these cough-racked, diseased and starved men [i.e., the Confederates] excel our well-fed, well-clothed, our best soldiers.” (Manuscript letters of James Gillette.)

11 Official Records, Vol. XXIV, Part 1, p. 222.

12 Glory Road, pp. 156-63; manuscript letters of John W. Chase.

13 Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, by Rufus R. Dawes, p. 125.

Stalemate in the Swamps

1 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 15.

2 See T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 275 if.

3 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, pp. 442-49; Under the Old Flag, Vol. I, pp. 154-55.

4 Ibid., p. 152.

5 B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 561-63.

6 Ibid., pp. 563-64; The Web of Victory, by Earl Schenck Miers, pp. 119-30.

The Face of the Enemy

1 Official Records, Vol. XVII, Part 2, p. 424.

2 The Web of Victory, pp. 54-55.

3 History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, by George W. Williams, pp. 106-7.

4 Ibid., p. 108.

5 Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, pp. 126, 166-67.

6 History of the 53rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pp. 102-3; George Williams, op. cit., p. 110.

7 The Negro in the Civil War, by Benjamin Quarles, pp. 8-9, 200-1.

8 Musket and Sword, by Edwin C. Bennett, p. 315.

9 Personal Recollections, by Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, p. 14.

10 Story of the Service of Company E and the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 188-90.

11 George Williams, op. cit., pp. 161-62, 166.

12 Quarles, op. cit., p. 201.

13 T. Harry Williams, op. cit., p. 291; Quarles, op. cit., p. 184.

End of a Campaign

1 B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 441-59.

2 The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman, p. 192.

3 Three Years with Grant, by Sylvanus Cadwallader, edited by Benjamin P. Thomas, pp. 61-62.

4 The Rise of U. S. Grant, pp.

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