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39
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:56–57; O.R., V. 43, Part I, 431, 31.
40
Rosser,
Riding with Rosser
, 47; Greiner,
General Phil Sheridan
, 357; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:57–58; Longacre,
Custer
, 254.
41
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:58; Hergesheimer,
Sheridan
, 214; O.R., V. 43, Part I, 31, 447–448; Wert,
Custer
, 191.
42
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:301.
43
Rosser,
Riding with Rosser
, 49.
44
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 559.
45
Wert,
Custer
, 185; Longacre,
Custer
, 261–262; Simson,
Custer and the Front Royal Executions of 1864
, 87–88, 91.
46
O.R., V. 43, Part II, 920.
47
Sheridan Papers, Reel 1; Wert,
From Winchester
, 166–169; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 328–329; Stephen Dodson Ramseur,
The Bravest of the Brave: The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur
, ed. George G. Kundahl (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 284.
48
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 333–334; Wert,
From Winchester
, 174–175.
49
Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early,
Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States
(Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1912), 438.
50
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 334–335.
51
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 51.
52
Sheridan Papers, Reel 50, Box 55.
53
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 51.
9. MIRACLE AT CEDAR CREEK
1
Aldace F. Walker,
The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864
(Burlington, VT: Free Press Association, 1869), 148.
2
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:62–63.
3
Ibid., 63–65.
4
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 13; Wert,
From Winchester
, 170–171; Kidd,
Riding with Custer
, 406.
5
Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 205.
6
Early,
Memoir
, 103–105; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:567; Wert,
From Winchester
, 175–176; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 336–337.
7
Flinn,
Campaigning
, 212; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 337.
8
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 338.
9
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 133–134; Wert,
From Winchester
, 176.
10
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 136–137; De Forest,
A Volunteer's Adventures
, 208–209.
11
Wert,
From Winchester
, 183–186.
12
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 137.
13
Hayes,
Diaries and Letters
, 2:497, 511, 524, 528.
14
Wert,
From Winchester
, 186–191.
15
Early,
Memoir
, 106; Hergesheimer,
Sheridan
, 239.
16
Hergesheimer,
Sheridan
, 231; Captain S. E. Howard, “The Morning Surprise at Cedar Creek,” in
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Massachusetts Commandery
(Boston: The Commandery, 1900), 2:417; Wert,
From Winchester
, 190–191.
17
De Forest,
A Volunteer's Adventures
, 213, 220; Howard, “The Morning Surprise,” 417.
18
Wert,
From Winchester
, 192–195; Richard Bache Irwin,
History of the Nineteenth Corps
(New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), 420–423; De Forest,
A Volunteer's Adventures
, 213–217; Flinn,
Campaigning
, 218–223.
19
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 139.
20
Kidd,
Riding with Custer
, 414–416; Walker,
The Vermont Brigade,
133; Wert,
From Winchester
, 207–213.
21
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 359.
22
Ibid., 341–34.
23
Rosser,
Riding with Rosser
, 56–57.
24
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 561–562.
25
D. Augustus Dickert,
History of Kershaw's Brigade
(Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull Company, 1899), 449; Wert,
From Winchester
, 218; John Worsham,
One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry
(New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1912), 276.
26
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:66.
27
Ibid., 66–67; Wert,
From Winchester
, 221; Drake,
Little Phil
, 306.
28
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:78–79; Forsyth,
Thrilling Days
, 142–143; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:570.
29
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:312; Foote,
The Civil War,
3:570; Wert,
From Winchester,
223.
30
Flinn,
Campaigning
, 225–226.
31
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 147.
32
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:82–83.
33
Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 148.
34
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:82–84.
35
Stevens,
Three Years
, 222.
36
Wert,
From Winchester
, 223; Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 148.
37
Thomas Lewis,
The Guns of Cedar Creek
(New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988), 290–291; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:83–85.
38
Wert,
From Winchester
, 224; Irwin,
History of the Nineteenth Corps
, 431–432; Forsyth,
Thrilling Days
, 151; Hayes,
Diaries and Letters
, 2:527; Moses Granger, “The Battle of Cedar Creek,” in
Sketches of War History, 1861–1865: Papers Prepared for the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
, ed. Robert Hunter (Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clark & Company, 1890), 3:125–126; Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 155; Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 125; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:85.
39
Drake,
Little Phil
, 320; Granger, “The Battle of Cedar Creek,” 126; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:314; Jonathan A. Noyalas,
The Battle of Cedar Creek: Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
(Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009), 61–62.
40
Forsyth,
Thrilling Days
, 152; Wert,
From Winchester
, 226–227; Noyalas,
The Battle of Cedar Creek
, 63; De Forest,
A Volunteer's Adventures
, 222.
41
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:86–87; Wert,
From Winchester
, 229–230.
42
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:88–89.
43
Forsyth,
Thrilling Days
, 160–161.
44
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:315; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 347–348.
45
Noyalas,
The Battle of Cedar Creek
, 65; Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 212; De Forest,
A Volunteer's Adventures
, 225, 223.
46
Greiner,
General Phil Sheridan
, 358; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:88–90; Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 152.
47
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 348–350; Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 214; Wert,
From Winchester
, 234.
48
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 350.
49
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 758–759; Wert,
From Winchester
, 236; Morris,
Sheridan,
216–218.
50
Lewis,
The Guns of Cedar Creek
, 289–290; Wert,
From Winchester
, 238.
51
Lewis,
The Guns of Cedar Creek
, 253–254; Wert,
From Winchester
, 234.
52
Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 215–216; Lewis,
The Guns of Cedar Creek
, 288; Forsyth,
Thrilling Days
, 160, 167; Sheridan Papers, Reel 1; Flinn,
Campaigning
, 230–231; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 331; Walker,
The Vermont Brigade
, 153.
53
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 32–33; Sheridan Papers, Reels 11, 1.
54
Grant Papers, 12:327–328.
55
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 59–60.
56
Drake,
Little Phil
, 331.
57
Morris,
Sheridan,
219; Lincoln,
Collected Works
, 8:58.
58
Noyalas,
The Battle of Cedar Creek
, 82; Morris,
Sheridan,
220; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:574. When Rienzi died in 1878, Sheridan had him stuffed. Rienzi today resides at the Smithsonian Institute. Noyalas,
The Battle of Cedar Creek
, 82.
59
David C. Whitney and Robin Vaughn Whitney,
The American Presidents
(New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1993), 140.
60
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:91–92; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:320; Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 29; Dana,
Recollections
, 248–249.
61
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 356–357, 364–365; Rosser,
Riding with Rosser
, 52; Stackpole,
Sheridan in the Shenandoah
, 364–365.
62
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 758; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:572; O.R., V. 43, Part I, 563.
63
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 560–564; Early,
Memoir
, 112–114.
64
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 758, from Jedediah Hotchkiss,
Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer
, ed. Archie P. McDonald (Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1973), 240–241.
65
William Tecumseh Sherman,
Home Letters of General Sherman,
ed. M. A. DeWolfe Howe (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), 314.
66
O.R., V. 43, Part II, 552–553.
67
O.R., V. 43, Part I, 54.
10. THE END OF JUBAL EARLY'S ARMY
1
Early,
Memoir
, 125–126.
2
O.R., V. 43, Part II, 671–672.
3
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:342–343; Grant Papers, 12:397.
4
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:99.
5
O.R., V. 43, Part II, 687.
6
Ibid., 730; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:348–349; Morris,
Sheridan,
229–230; Ramage,
Gray Ghost
, 232.
7
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:2–4; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 53–54.
8
Sheridan Papers, Reel 94; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:105; Hergesheimer,
Sheridan
, 287–288.
9
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:105–108; O'Connor,
Sheridan the Inevitable
, 237.
10
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 374–375; Wert,
From Winchester
, 250.
11
O.R., V. 43, Part II, 882–884.
12
Ibid., 740–744; Sheridan Papers, Reel 50; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:103–104; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:337–341; Denison,
Illustrated Life
, 124–125.
13
O.R., V. 43, Part II, 830–831; Heatwole,
The Burning
, 224, 229–230.
14
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:112–113.
15
Sheridan Papers, Reel 94.
16
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:114–115.
17
Wert,
Custer
, 205–206; Simson,
Crisis of Command
, 99–100; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:112.
18
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:109–112; Sheridan Papers, Reel 94.
19
Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 228; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:114.
20
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:371–374; Urwin,
Custer Victorious
, 228–230; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:116; Early,
Memoir
, 125–126.
21
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:118; Drake,
Little Phil
, 356.
22
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:118–120.
23
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:383; Early,
Memoir
, 129, appendix A; Wert,
From Winchester
, 248.
24
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:123; Drake,
Little Phil
, 358.
25
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:421; Morris,
Sheridan,
240; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 33, 36; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:130.
11. WATERLOO FOR THE CONFEDERACY

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