5 Mansfield Lovell to his daughter, October 22, 1862, CWTI, and to his wife, October 13, 1862, Lovell Papers, HL.
6 Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI; Pollard,Lost Cause, 337; Mobile Advertiser and Register and Atlanta Southern Confederacy, undated clippings in Solomon Scrapbook, DU; Daily Toledo Blade, October 22, 1862.
7 OR 17(1):788-89.
8 Earl Van Dorn to Emily Van Dorn, October 14, 1862, Van Dorn Papers, ADAH.
9 Hartje,Van Dorn, 247-48; OR i7(i):38i-82 and (2):726-28; Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI.
10 Earl Van Dorn to T. N. Waul, November 29, 1862, and to Emily Van Dorn, October 30, 1862, both in Van Dorn Papers, ADAH; Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI.
11 Hartje,Van Dorn, 248-49; OR i7(i):4i5-46.
12 OR I7(i):4i5~i6; Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI.
13 OR i7(i):4i8-2o.
14 OR i7(i):444~45, 458-59; Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI.
15 Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI; Hartje,Van Dorn, 250; Francis Vinson Greene,The Mississippi, 56-58.
16 Francis Vinson Greene,The Mississippi, 62; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 304-5; Hartje,Van Dorn, 250-51; Tunnard,Southern Record, 212; OR i7(2):9oi.
17 OR 17(2) 1902-3; Tunnard,Southern Record, 216; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 304-5; Francis Vinson Greene,The Mississippi, 62-64; Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI; Hartje,Van Dorn, 253.
18 William C. Davis, Jefferson Davis, 475-78; Hartje, Van Dorn, 254-55; Rose, Ross’ Texas Brigade, 131; Octavia Sulivane to her sister, February 5, 1863, Sulivane Letters, Smith Collection, USAMHI; Maury, “Recollections of Van Dorn,” 197.
19 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 168-69; Ducat, Memoirs, 28.
20 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 172; OR 17(1): 176.
21 OR 17(1): 172-73.
22 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 172-7-1,.
23 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:146-47, 166-67; Lamers, Edge of Glory, 172-73.
24 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 172-74; John W. Fuller to David Sloane Stanley, August 23, 1887, West-Stanley-Wright Family Papers, USAMHI; Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1:417-18; William Starke Rosecrans to his wife, September 20, 1874, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA; Sherman, Memoirs, 284.
25 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:163-66.
26 OR 17(2): 286-87.
27 Julia Dent Grant, Memoirs, 104.
28 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:182, 185.
29 Ibid., 6:185; Julia Dent Grant, Memoirs, 104-5; Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs, 1:420.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
1 Francis Vinson Greene, The Mississippi, 54; Sherman, Memoirs, 284; Stanley, Memoirs, 115; Chetlain, “Corinth,” 381-82.
2 Nelson Memoirs, 29, CWMC; Lamers, Edge of Glory, 178-79; Arthur C. Ducat to William Starke Rosecrans, April 24, 1885, Rosecrans Papers, UCLA.
3 “Correspondence of Wisconsin Volunteers,” 4:126, 128, Quiner Papers, WiHS; A. B. Monahan to his wife, October 12, 1862, Sixty-third Ohio Infantry File, SNMP; Clark, Downing’s Diary, 75-76; Hubert, Fiftieth Illinois, 164; Daniel Leib Ambrose, Seventh Illinois, 112-13; John S. Wilcox to his wife, October 16,. 1862, Wilcox Papers, ISHL.
4 Lamers, Edge of Glory, 168; Maury, “Campaign against Grant,” 304-5.
5 Connelly, Army of the Heartland, 238, 270.
6 Von Clausewitz, On War, 535.
7 Throne, “Iowa Doctor,” 99; OR 17(2): 270; Roberts, “Caring for the Wounded,” 328; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:145.
8 Trowbridge, “Saving a General,” 22; Simon, Grant Papers, 6:145.
9 Simon, Grant Papers, 6:143.
10 Trowbridge, “Saving a General,” 22-25.
11 Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 77-81.
12 Castel, Price and the War, 133-34, 139; Shalhope, Price, 225-32; Gottschalk, In Deadly Earnest, 176-77.
13 Hartje, Van Dorn, 262-65.
14 Ibid., 290, 296.
15 Pope, “War Reminiscences XII”; Hartje, Van Dorn, 308-9.
16 Ibid., 310-13; Van Dorn biographical sketch, Sigel Papers, WRHS; Sparks, War between the States, 226-27.
17 Hartje, Van Dorn, 318-19.
APPENDIX
1 Not shown in table of organization found in OR 17(1):374–75; however, Armstrong mentions this regiment as belonging to his brigade. See OR 17(2):675.
2 One section only.
3 Detachments of the 58th Illinois, the 8th Iowa, the 12th Iowa, and the 14th Iowa constituted the organization known as the Union Brigade.
4 Serving as infantry.
5 Serving as infantry.
6 Serving as infantry.
7 Not identified as such, but probable.
8 Serving as infantry.
9 Serving as infantry.
10 Serving as infantry.
11 Probably incomplete.
12 Probably incomplete.
13 Serving as infantry.
14 Serving as infantry.
15 Serving as infantry.
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