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5 Lewis, op. cit., pp. 270-71.
6 Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, p. 179; A Soldier Boy’s Letters to his Father and Mother, pp. 46, 54.
7 Muskets and Medicine, pp. 73-74, 84; Downing’s War Diary, p. 113.
8 Under the Old Flag, Vol. I, pp. 168-69; History of the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp. 132-33.
9 Under the Old Flag, Vol. I, p. 164; Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, pp. 463-64.
10 Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction, p. 160.
11 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 488. For a first-rate account of the Grierson raid and an appealing sketch of Grierson himself, the reader is referred to D. Alexander Brown’s excellent book, Grierson’s Raid.
12 Reunion of the 33rd Illinois Regiment; Report of Proceedings, p. 13; B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 499, 501.
13 Lewis, op. cit., p. 273.
14 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 480: “I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equalled since.… I was on dry ground on the same side of the river with the enemy.”
15 The Story of a Cavalry Regiment, p. 84; Three Years with Grant, pp. 74-75.
16 History of the 33rd Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 39.
17 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 526.
Chapter Nine: THE TREES AND THE RIVER
Final Miscalculation
1 The Campaign of Chancellorsville, by John Bigelow, Jr., p. 221. A list of sources for the Chancellorsville portion of this chapter will be found in Glory Road, pp. 386-90.
2 See R. E. Lee, by Douglas Southall Freeman, Vol. III, pp. 18-19.
Moment of Truth
1 The Road to Richmond, by Major Abner R. Small, p. 94; The History of the Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, by Daniel George MacNamara, p. 299.
2 The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, by Col. George Meade, Vol. I, p. 372.
3 History of the 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, by Capt. A. W. Bartlett, p. 114; Three Years Campaign of the Ninth N.Y.S.M. during the Southern Rebellion, by John W. Jaques, p. 149; The Story of the 15th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, by Andrew E. Ford, p. 256; The Twentieth Connecticut: A Regimental History, by John W. Storrs, p. 70; History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, by R. I. Holcombe, p. 330.
4 In Glory Road, this author somehow identified the tune that took the first brigade into battle as “The Girl I Left Behind Me.” A courteous letter from the grandson of the Gen. Rufus Dawes who commanded the 6th Wisconsin of that brigade at Gettysburg has provided the necessary correction. Mr. Dawes recalls that as a small boy he often saw his father or one of his uncles come into the parlor where the old soldier was sitting and pick “The Campbells Are Coming” out on the piano, one-finger fashion, “just to see the old man’s beard bristle.”
5 Manuscript letters of John W. Chase.
Unvexed to the Sea
1 B. & L., Vol. III, p. 517; Three Years with Grant, p. 89.
2 B. & L., Vol. III, p. 518; History of the 33rd Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 44.
3 Under the Old Flag, Vol. I, pp. 180-83; Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 531.
4 Manuscript letters of Abram S. Funk, 35th Iowa; manuscript letters of George L. Lang, 12th Wisconsin.
5 History of the 16th Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, pp. 73, 75.
6 Three Years with Grant, pp. 103-9. For a highly critical analysis of the Cadwallader memoirs, see Kenneth Williams in American Heritage, Vol. VII, No. 5.
7 Lewis, op. cit., pp. 282-84; Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, pp. 546-47.
8 Manuscript letters of George L. Lang, Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, p. 196.
9 Forty-six Years in the Army, by Lt. Gen. John M. Schofield, p. 145.
10 Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 202-4; History of the 33rd Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, pp. 84-85.
11 Downing’s War Diary, p. 124.
12 B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 530-34, 536; manuscript