This Hallowed Ground - Bruce Catton [274]
1 Lewis, op. cit., p. 319.
2 The Life of Major General George H. Thomas, pp. 180-91.
3 Lewis, op. cit., pp. 320-21.
4 B. & L., Vol. III, p. 706.
5 History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 274.
6 Life of Major General George H. Thomas, pp. 191-92; Opdycke Tigers, pp. 164, 169, 172; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp. 180, 183; Lewis, op. cit., p. 323.
7 B. & L., Vol. III, p. 725.
8 Opdycke Tigers, p. 166; Life of Major General George H. Thomas, p. 197; B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 725-26; History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 275.
9 Ibid., pp. 276-78
10 Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 263; Lewis, op. cit., pp. 325-26.
11 A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, pp. 247-48; Cox, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 84-85; Footprints through Dixie, p. 70; Schofield, op. cit., p. 114.
12 Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, p. 187.
13 Life of Major General George H. Thomas, p. 213.
14 Ohio at Shiloh: Report of the Commission, p. 204.
Chapter Eleven: AND KEEP MOVING ON
Year of Jubilo
1 Official Records, Series 4, Vol. III, p. 130.
2 The Living Lincoln, p. 162; Official Records, Vol. XXIV, Part 3, p. 567.
3 General Grant’s Letters to a Friend, 1861-1880; Lewis, op. cit., p. 335.
4 Official Records, Vol. XVII, Part 2, p. 868; The Story of a Cavalry Regiment, pp. 186, 207, 216; Lewis, op. cit., pp. 332-33.
5 Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 249-50.
6 Official Records, Vol. LII, Part 2, pp. 586-92, 598-99, 606-9.
7 Ibid., Series 4, Vol. II, p. 345; Series 4, Vol. III, p. 86.
Vote of Confidence
1 See Ben Thomas’s Abraham Lincoln, pp. 405-8.
2 Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, p. 239.
3 Lewis, op. cit., p. 345.
4 The Life of John A. Rawlins, by Maj. Gen. James Harrison Wilson, pp. 426-27; The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. II, p. 201.
5 Official Records, Series 3, Vol. V, p. 650.
6 Drum Taps in Dixie, pp. 144-45.
7 Official Records, Series 3, Vol. V, pp. 649, 651; History of the 34th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 96; manuscript letters of John W. Chase; manuscript letters of George L. Lang; Cox, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 92; Downing’s War Diary, p. 177.
8 Official Records, Vol. XXXIII, p. 776.
9 Greene County Soldiers in the Late War, p. 68; Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, p. 197; Three Years with the Armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland, p. 66.
The Great Decision
1 Lewis, op. cit., p. 343.
2 The Road to Richmond, by Major Abner R. Small, pp. 130-31; Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac, by Frank Wilkeson, pp. 42-43.
3 R. E. Lee, by Douglas Southall Freeman, Vol. III, p. 287.
4 Manuscript letters of John W. Chase.
A Question of Time
1 Freeman, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 398.
2 See John C. Ropes, “The Failure to Take Petersburg on June 16-18, 1864,” in the Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. V; A Stillness at Appomattox, pp. 183-99.
3 Manuscript diary of Henry Mortimer Hempstead, 2nd Michigan Cavalry.
4 A Stillness at Appomattox, pp. 219-51.
5 The Living Lincoln, p. 616.
Chapter Twelve: WE WILL NOT CEASE
That Bright Particular Star
1 Official Records, Vol. XIX, Part 2, p. 505.
2 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp. 99, 133; Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp. 281-82.
3 Lewis, op. cit., pp. 357-58.
4 “Letters of C. C. Carpenter,” edited by Mildred Throne; from the Iowa Journal of History, January 1955, p. 84.
5 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp. 78, 95.
6 Lewis, op. cit., pp. 375-78.
7 Schofield, op. cit., pp. 131, 231-32.
8 The Life of Major General George H. Thomas, pp. 243-45.
9 Lewis, op. cit., p. 386.
10 Manuscript letter of General Sherman to Emily Hoffman of Baltimore. Family tradition regarding Miss Hoffman’s receipt of the news of McPherson’s death, and her reaction to it, related by her