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This Hallowed Ground - Bruce Catton [273]

By Root 1905 0
letters of George L. Lang.

13 B. & L., Vol. III, p. 492.

14 Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, p. 194.


Chapter Ten: LAST OF THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEENS

Pursuit in Tennessee

1 The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman, p. 213.

2 For a suggestive discussion of the connection between Vallandigham’s visit and the Morgan raid, see Howard Swiggett, The Rebel Raider: John Hunt Morgan, pp. 120-26.

3 Official Records, Vol. XXIII, Part 1, p. 640. General Wheeler’s report, emphasizing that Morgan disobeyed orders by crossing the Ohio, is in the same volume, pp. 817-18.

4 History of the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 185; History of the 16th Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, pp. 86-88.

5 History of the 53rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, p. 108.

6 Lewis, op. cit., p. 309; Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. I, p. 578 ff.

7 The Negro in the Civil War, pp. 1-11, 13-18.

8 Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, p. 121; History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 203; History of the 38th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, pp. 68-71.

9 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. II, p. 20; Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 298-99.

10 History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 202.

11 Official Records, Vol. XXIII, Part 1, p. 408; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 97; History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, pp. 210-11.

12 Opdycke Tigers: 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Charles T. Clark, p. 81; Official Records, Vol. XXIII, Part 1, p. 407; History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 215.

13 History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 98.

14 Ibid., pp. 101, 111.

Ghoul-Haunted Woodland

1 Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 317, 320, 322-23, 327.

2 B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 641-45.

3 Ibid., pp. 638-39.

4 History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 118; Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, pp. 134-36. Note the remark of the author of The History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 225: “There was not even a private in the ranks who did not realize the fact that we had a big contract on our hands.”

5 The Army of Tennessee, p. 263. This book, incidentally, contains one of the best of all the accounts of the battle of Chickamauga.

6 History of the 38th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, pp. 89-91.

7 History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp. 134-35; Van Horne, Vol. I, pp. 342-43, 345-47.

8 Ibid., p. 347; B. & L., Vol. III, p. 663; Cox, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 160-61.

9 History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 239; Opdycke Tigers, pp. 106-8, 117, 123-24; Three Years with the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland, p. 54.

10 History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 242.

The Pride of Soldiers

1 Memoirs of the War, pp. 208-9; Three Years with the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland, pp. 57-58; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 159.

2 History of the 34th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 78.

3 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. II, p. 26; Cox, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 16.

4 B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 684-85. This volume contains an amusing account of the building of the river steamer, pp. 676 ff.

5 Cox, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 17-19.

6 Footprints through Dixie: Everyday Life of the Man under a Musket, by J. W. Gaskill, pp. 60-62, 64.

7 History of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, by W. L. Sanford, p. 63; Cox, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 84.

8 B. & L., Vol. III, p. 693 n.

9 Ibid., p. 694.

10 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. II, pp. 42-43.

11 Civil War Papers read before the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vol. I, p. 250; History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p. 233 n; Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 218; History of the 33rd Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, pp. 47-48.

A Half Dozen

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