This Hallowed Ground (76 page)
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Authors: Bruce Catton
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.
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.
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.
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.
1
Official Records
, Vol. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 288-89;
Under the Old Flag
, Vol. I, pp. 158-60;
The Web of Victory
, pp. 138-39.
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.
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.