This Hallowed Ground (77 page)
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Authors: Bruce Catton
2
See
R. E. Lee
, by Douglas Southall Freeman, Vol. III, pp. 18-19.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Half Dozen Roasted Acorns
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WE WILL NOT CEASE