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84. Grant, Memoirs, 1:191.
85. PUSG, 4:149. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, February 4, 1862.
86. Bunting, Ulysses S. Grant, 43.
87. Smith, Grant, 121.
88. Richardson, A Personal History, 201.
89. Chetlain, “Reminiscences of General Grant.”
90. PUSG, 32:160. Letter from Brig. Gen. Charles F. Smith to his wife, March 1863. [n.d.]
91. Ibid., 4:151. “Field Orders No. 1,” February 5, 1862.
92. White, “Civil War Diary of Patrick H. White.”
93. Catton, Terrible Swift Sword, 151.
94. Ibid.
95. Smith, Grant, 147.
96. McClellan, The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, 172.
97. Smith, Grant, 148.
98. McPherson, War on the Waters, 75–76.
99. Smith, Grant, 149.
100. McFeely, Grant, 98.
101. PUSG, 4:193–94. Letter from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, February 8, 1862.
102. Ibid., 193. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, February 11, 1862.
103. Ibid., 179. Letter to Mary Grant, February 9, 1862.
104. Grant, Memoirs, 1:197.
CHAPTER NINE: DYNAMO
1. PUSG, 4:273. Letter to Orvil L. Grant, February 22, 1862.
2. Grant, Memoirs, 1:196.
3. PUSG, 4:180. Letter to Mary Grant, February 9, 1862.
4. Ibid., 182. Letter from Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote, February 11, 1862.
5. McFeely, Grant, 99.
6. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 113.
7. PUSG, 4:195. Telegram to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, February 12, 1862.
8. Ibid., 203. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, February 13, 1862.
9. White, “Civil War Diary of Patrick H. White.”
10. Foote, The Civil War, 1:195.
11. Ibid., 203.
12. Grant, Memoirs, 1:203.
13. Ibid., 206.
14. New York Herald, July 24, 1878.
15. Grant, Memoirs, 1:204.
16. Catton, Grant Moves South, 165.
17. McFeely, Grant, 100.
18. Catton, Grant Moves South, 166.
19. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 115.
20. Girardi, The Civil War Generals, 65.
21. The New York Times, July 24, 1885.
22. Catton, Grant Moves South, 167.
23. Grant, Memoirs, 1:205.
24. Ibid., 206.
25. Catton, Grant Moves South, 173.
26. Simpson, “Butcher? Racist?”
27. McFeely, Grant, 104.
28. Smith, Grant, 161.
29. Foote, The Civil War, 1:211.
30. Catton, Grant Moves South, 174–75.
31. PUSG, 4:218. Letter to Brig. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, February 16, 1862.
32. “General Rawlins’ Address.” Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, 1877.
33. PUSG, 4:218. Letter from Brig. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, February 16, 1862.
34. USGH. “Interview with Simon Bolivar Buckner.” HGP.
35. Simon, “Grant at Belmont.”
36. Grant, Memoirs, 1:212.
37. USGH. “Interview with Simon Bolivar Buckner.” HGP.
38. Catton, Grant Moves South, 182.
39. New York Tribune, February 22, 1862.
40. Ibid., 229. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, February 16, 1862.
41. Ibid., 264. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, February 21, 1862.
42. Young, Around the World, 6
43. Waugh, U. S. Grant, 55.
44. Catton, Grant Moves South, 179–80.
45. The New York Times, February 25, 1862.
46. Foote, The Civil War, 1:214.
47. Ibid.
48. Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 381.
49. Parker, The Life of General Ely S. Parker, 136–37.
50. Taussig, “Personal Recollections of General Grant.”
51. PUSG, 4:222. Letter from Col. James B. McPherson, February 21, 1862.
52. Washburne, Biography, 101.
53. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 119.
54. Burlingame, With Lincoln in the White House, 69.
55. Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 427.
56. PUSG, 4:271. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, February 22, 1862.
57. Ibid., 284. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, February 24, 1862.
58. Keegan, The American Civil War, 161.
59. Grant, Memoirs, 1:214.
60. Girardi, The Civil War Generals, 68.
61. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 93.
62. PUSG, 4:257. Letter to Brig. Gen. George W. Cullum, February 21, 1862.
63. Ibid., 320. Letter from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, March 3, 1862.
64. Ibid. Letter from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, March 4, 1862.
65. Ibid. Telegram from Gen. George B. McClellan to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, March 3, 1862.
66. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 123.
67. PUSG, 11:231. Letter from Charles A. Dana to John A. Rawlins, July 13, 1864.
68. GPL. S2 B6 F14. From Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton.
69. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 150.
70. PUSG, 4:319. Telegram from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, March 4, 1862; Smith, Grant, 178.
71. Ibid., 331. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, March 7, 1862.
72. GPL. S2 B54 F18. “Interview with John M. Thayer.” HGP.
73. New York Herald, July 24, 1878.
74. Grant, Memoirs, 1:221.
75. PUSG, 4:338. Letter from Brig. Gen. John A. McClernand et al., March 9, 1862.
76. GPL. S2 B24 F15. “Interview with Mr. McDonald.” HGP.
77. Sherman, Memoirs, 966.
78. Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 375.
79. Sherman, “General Sherman’s Opinion of General Grant.”
80. GPL. S2 B4 F10. Letter from William T. Sherman to Col. John Eaton Tourtellotte, February 4, 1887.
81. McPherson, “The Bloody Partnership.”
82. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 462.
83. Ibid., 460.
84. Smith, Grant, 15.
85. New York Herald, July 24, 1878.
86. Cramer, Ulysses S. Grant, 193–94.
87. PUSG, 4:355. Telegram from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, March 13, 1862.
88. Ibid., 306. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 1, 1862.
CHAPTER TEN: A GLITTERING LIE
1. Grant, Memoirs, 1:222.
2. PUSG, 4:348–49. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 11, 1862.
3. Ibid., 375. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 15, 1862.
4. Grant, Memoirs, 1:221.
5. Wilson, Rawlins, 80.
6. Green, “Civil War Public Opinion of General Grant.”
7. Grant, Memoirs, 1:239.
8. PUSG, 4:400. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, March 21, 1862.
9. Foote, The Civil War, 1:325.
10. PUSG, 5:7. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, April 3, 1862.
11. Ibid., 9. Letter to Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman, April 4, 1862.
12. Grant, Memoirs, 1:224.
13. PUSG, 5:14. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, April 5, 1862.
14. Perret, Ulysses S. Grant, 187.
15. PUSG, 5:14. Letter from Brig. Gen. William T. Sherman, April 5, 1862.
16. Catton, Grant Moves South, 220–21.
17. Foote, The Civil War, 1:169.
18. Perret, Ulysses S. Grant, 187.
19. �
�General Rawlins’ Address.” Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, 1877.
20. Young, Around the World, 390.
21. Wilson, Rawlins, 90.
22. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 409.
23. GPL. S2 B4 F9. Letter from W. R. Rowley to E. Hempstead, April 19, 1862.
24. White, “Civil War Diary of Patrick H. White.”
25. Ibid.
26. GPL. S2 B4 F10. Letter from Mrs. W. H. Cherry to T. M. Hurst, December 6, 1892.
27. USGA Newsletter, January 1964.
28. PUSG, 6:275. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, November 7, 1862.
29. USGA Newsletter, January 1964.
30. Ibid.
31. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 131.
32. Catton, Grant Moves South, 230.
33. Grant, Memoirs, 1:228.
34. Sherman, Memoirs, 917.
35. PUSG, 7:29. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, December 14, 1862.
36. Wilson, Rawlins, 87.
37. PUSG, 18:193. Letter from Brig. Gen. Lewis Wallace, February 28, 1868.
38. Grant, Memoirs, 1:241.
39. Chetlain, “Reminiscences of General Grant.”
40. White, “Civil War Diary of Patrick H. White.”
41. Wilson, Rawlins, 88.
42. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 133.
43. “New York: High Honors Paid to Gen. Grant by the Lotos Club.” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 21, 1880.
44. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 412.
45. PUSG, 5:111. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 4, 1862.
46. Foreman, A World on Fire, 245.
47. Grant, Memoirs, 1:234.
48. Grant, “My Father as I Knew Him.”
49. Smith, Grant, 201.
50. Richardson, A Personal History, 243.
51. Sherman, Memoirs, 259–60.
52. Grant, Memoirs, 1:235.
53. Waugh, U. S. Grant, 58.
54. Foote, The Civil War, 1:350.
55. LoC. USGP. Container 10.2, Reel 3. Letter from William S. Hillyer to his wife, April 11, 1862.
56. Grant, Memoirs, 1:238.
57. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 413.
58. Faust, This Republic of Suffering, 36.
59. PUSG, 5:119–20. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, May 14, 1862.
60. Curtis, The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, 2:210. Letter from Dr. O. W. Holmes to John Lothrop Motley, October 10, 1865.
61. Young, Around the World, 393.
62. Foreman, A World on Fire, 247.
63. Foote, The Civil War, 1:372.
64. Ibid.
65. PUSG, 5:103. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, April 30, 1862.
66. GPL. S2 B4 F9. Letter from L. S. Felt to Elihu B. Washburne, April 12, 1862.
67. Catton, Grant Moves South, 259.
68. Stevens, Grant in St. Louis, 89.
69. GPL. S2 B21 F17. Letter from William R. Rowley to Elihu B. Washburne, April 19, 1862. LLP.
70. Ibid. S2 B10 F66. Letter from John A. Rawlins to his aunt, June 15, 1862.
71. Ibid. S2 B24 F18. “Interview with Gen. James Harrison Wilson.” HGP.
72. Ibid. S2 B54 F10. “Interview with Benjamin Johnson.” HGP.
73. Ibid. S2 B54 F3. “Interview with R. C. Rankin.” HGP.
74. Simon, “From Galena to Appomattox.”
75. Washburne, Memoirs, 132.
76. Catton, Grant Moves South, 260.
77. GPL. S2 B4 F11. Letter from Col. Clark B. Lagow to E. B. Washburne.
78. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 99; Catton, Grant Moves South, 260.
79. McPherson, Tried by War, 84–85.
80. Richardson, A Personal History, 336.
81. PUSG, 9:522. Letter from Elihu B. Washburne, January 24, 1864.
82. Green, “Civil War Public Opinion of General Grant.”
83. Nevins and Thomas, The Diary of George Templeton Strong, 3:216. Diary entry for April 9, 1862.
84. Catton, Grant Moves South, 272.
85. PUSG, 4:413. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 23, 1862.
86. PUSG, 5:119. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, May 14, 1862.
87. USGH. “Interview with W. W. Smith.” HGP.
88. Richardson, A Personal History, 254.
89. PUSG, 5:79. Letter from William S. Hillyer to Jesse Root Grant, April 21, 1862.
90. Ibid., 82. Letter from Jesse Root Grant to Gov. David Tod, July 11, 1862.
91. Ibid., 264. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, August 3, 1862.
92. Ibid., 6:61–62. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, September 17, 1862.
93. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 122–23.
94. Ibid., 83. Letter to Mrs. Charles F. Smith, April 26, 1862.
95. Fry, “An Acquaintance with Grant.”
96. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 122.
97. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 136.
98. Catton, Grant Moves South, 272.
99. Borchgrave and Cullen, Villard, 194.
100. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 142.
101. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 124.
102. PUSG, 5:134. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 31, 1862.
103. Ibid., 118. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 13, 1862.
104. Grant, Memoirs, 1:251.
105. PUSG, 5:114. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, May 11, 1862.
106. Ibid., 130. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 24, 1862.
107. Sherman, Memoirs, 275.
108. Ibid., 276.
109. Newsham, “The Turning Point of the War.”
110. Sherman, Memoirs, 276.
111. Newsham, “The Turning Point of the War.”
112. Chetlain, “Reminiscences of General Grant.”
113. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 126.
114. McFeely, Grant, 117.
115. PUSG, 5:138. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, June 3, 1862.
116. USGH. “Interview with W. W. Smith.”
117. Washburne, Biography, 148.
118. Ibid.
119. Green, “Civil War Public Opinion of General Grant.”
120. Grant, Memoirs, 1:259.
121. Ibid., 261.
122. PUSG, 5:165. Letter to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, June 27, 1862.
123. Ibid., 207. Telegram from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, July 11, 1862.
124. Donald, Lincoln, 369.
125. McPherson, Tried by War, 101.
126. PUSG, 5:226. Letter to Elihu B. Washburne, July 22, 1862.
127. Sheridan, Memoirs, 1:181.
128. McPherson, Tried by War, 121.
129. Ibid., 119.
130. GPL. S2 B6 F14. Diary entry of Gideon Welles, November 4, 1862.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: EXODUS
1. PUSG, 5:226. Letter from Elihu Washburne, July 25, 1862.
2. Ibid., 244. Letter from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, August 2, 1862.
3. Grant, Memoirs, 1:265.
4. Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 165.
5. PUSG, 5:310. Letter to Mary Grant, August 19, 1862.
6. Ibid., 124. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, May 16, 1862.
7. Catton, Never Call Retreat, 115.
8. PUSG, 5:272. Letter from Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman to Maj. John A. Rawlins, August 14, 1862.
9. Ibid., 226. Letter from Elihu Washburne, July 25, 1862.
10. Ibid., 311. Letter to Mary Grant, August 19, 1862.
11. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant, 153.
12. PUSG, 6:67. Telegram to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, Sep
tember 19, 1862.
13. Ibid., 71. Telegram to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, September 20, 1862.
14. The New York Times, October 5, 1862.
15. PUSG, 6:87. Letter from Franklin A. Dick to Attorney General Edward Bates, September 28, 1862.
16. Julia Grant, Memoirs, 104.
17. PUSG, 6:143. Telegram from President Abraham Lincoln, October 8, 1862.
18. Ibid., 155. Letter to Mary Grant, October 16, 1862.
19. Foote, The Civil War, 1:725.
20. Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, 20.
21. PUSG, 6:266. “Special Field Orders No. 1,” November 7, 1862.
22. Young, Around the World, 312-13.
23. Baltimore American, September 12, 1862.
24. Foote, The Civil War, 1:704.
25. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 559.
26. Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, 2.
27. PUSG, 6:315. Telegram to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, November 15, 1862.
28. Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, 2 and 5.
29. Ibid., 6.
30. Ibid., 12.
31. Ibid., 15.
32. Grant, Memoirs, 1:285.
33. Ibid.
34. Douglass, “U. S. Grant and the Colored People.”
35. Foner, Fiery Trial, 234.
36. Young, Around the World, 299.
37. LoC. USGP. Series 4, Vol. 9. “Memoirs,” 291. Original manuscript of Grant’s Memoirs.
38. Stahr, Seward, 356.
39. Foote, The Civil War, 2:116.
40. GPL. S2 B10 F66. Letter from John A. Rawlins to “Enos,” December 20, 1862.
41. LoC. JHWP. Box 50. Letter from John A. Rawlins to Mary Sheean, December 14, 1862.
42. PUSG, 5:244. Letter from Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, August 2, 1862.
43. Sarna, When General Grant Expelled the Jews, 43–44.
44. Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, 22.
45. PUSG, 5:240. Letter from Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman to John A. Rawlins, July 30, 1862.
46. Ibid., 6:394. Letter to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, December 5, 1862.
47. Ibid., 7:50. “General Orders No. 11,” December 17, 1862.
48. Ibid., 56–57. Letter to Christopher P. Wolcott, December 17, 1862.
49. Ibid., 4:326–27. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 5, 1862.
50. Ibid., 412. Letter to Julia Dent Grant, March 23, 1862.
51. Ibid., 6:344. Letter to Jesse Root Grant, November 23, 1862.
52. Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, December 26, 1886.
53. PUSG, 19:21. Letter from William S. Hillyer to the editor of the New York World, January 29, 1869.