by H. W. Brands
“From about the 1st of April”: Memoirs of Sherman, 249.
“All is quiet along my lines”: Sherman to Grant, April 5, 1862 (two messages), Official Records, 1:10(2):93.
“About 8 a.m.…rest of the day”: Sherman to Capt. J. A. Rawlins, April 10, 1862, Memoirs of Sherman, 256-58.
“I wish I could make a visit”: to Julia Dent Grant, April 3, 1862.
“Found all quiet”: to Halleck, April 5, 1862.
“I was intending”: Memoirs, 224.
“Heavy firing is heard up the river”: to Buell, April 6, 1862.
“The attack on my forces”: to Commanding Officer, Advance Forces near Pittsburg, April 6, 1862.
“It stood on the ridge”: Memoirs, 226-31.
“I haven’t despaired of whipping them yet”: Adam Badeau, “General Grant,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May-Oct. 1885, 156.
“The last time I was with him … the first fire”: Memoirs, 228.
“Staff officers were immediately dispatched … have been hoped for”: P. T. G. Beauregard, “The Campaign of Shiloh,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 1:590-91.
“I visited each division commander in person”: Memoirs, 234.
“It rained hard during the night”: Memoirs of Sherman, 259.
“Rain fell in torrents”: Memoirs, 234-35.
“Well, Grant”: Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant and Sherman (2005), 114.
“I saw Willich’s regiment”: Memoirs of Sherman, 259-60.
“My force was too much fatigued”: to Nathaniel McClean (for Halleck), April 9, 1862.
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“More Glorious News … and irregular fighting”: New York Times, April 9, 10 and 14, 1862.
“There was no more preparation”: Larry J. Daniel, Shiloh (1997), 304.
“I will go on and do my duty”: to Jesse Grant, April 26, 1862.
“The troops with me … by complete conquest”: Memoirs, 238-40, 246.
“I did not know Grant”: A. K. McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times (1892 ed.), 179-80.
“The soldiers of the great West”: Halleck, General Orders No. 16, April 13, 1862, Official Records, 1:10(2):105.
“I have felt my position as anomalous”: to Halleck, May 11, 1862.
“I am very much surprised, General”: Halleck to Grant, May 12, 1862, Official Records, 1:10(2), 182-83.
“I have a father, mother, wife”: to Washburne, May 14, 1862.
“I have been so shockingly abused”: to Julia Dent Grant, May 11, 1862.
“I was silenced so quickly”: Memoirs, 252.
“We found the enemy had gone”: to Julia Dent Grant, May 31, 1862.
“I rode from my camp … his true place”: Memoirs of Sherman, 275-76.
“I have just received your note”: Sherman to Grant, June 6, 1862, Papers of Grant, 5:141.
“I have never done half justice by him”: to Julia Dent Grant, June 9, 1862.
“In General Sherman”: to Julia Dent Grant, May 4, 1862.
“I prefer Lee to Johnston”: McClellan to Lincoln, April 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“Your call for Parrot guns”: Lincoln to McClellan, May 11, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“We are quietly closing in”: McClellan to Lincoln, May 26, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“I have lost this battle”: McClellan to Stanton, June 28, 1862, Official Records, 1:11(1):61.
“If we had a million men … and will bring it out”: Lincoln to McClellan, July 1 and 2, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“If not attacked today”: McClellan to Lincoln, July 7, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“Prisoners all state”: McClellan to Lincoln, July 11, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“I will start for Washington”: Halleck to Lincoln, July 11, 1862, Official Records, 1:11(3):315.
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“The day I started”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 93.
“I remember one of them”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 95.
“As we entered the encampment”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 102-03.
“With my staff and small escort … of Dr. Smith”: Memoirs, 259-60.
“His impudence was so sublime”: Memoirs, 262.
“There is a great disloyalty”: to Halleck, June 27, 1862.
“You will suspend the further publication”: Hillyer to Memphis Avalanche, July 1, 1862, Papers of Grant, 5:182n.
“Government collections … receive such treatment”: General Orders No. 60, July 3, 1862.
“The families now residing”: Special Orders Nos. 14 and 15, July 10 and 12, 1862, Papers of Grant, 5:192n.
“I feel it my duty to remark”: Thompson to Grant, July 14, 1862, Papers of Grant, 5:193n.
“But if it is to make him”: to Washburne, July 22, 1862.
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“I learned with great pleasure”: Washburne to Grant, July 25, 1862, Papers of Grant, 5:226n.
“I write plainly and slowly … for not shipping it”: Sherman to Chase, Aug. 11, 1862, Memoirs of Sherman, 286-90.
“I found so many Jews and speculators here”: Sherman to Rawlins (for Grant), July 30, 1862, Official Records, 1:17(2):140-41.
“Fugitive slaves may be employed”: General Orders No. 72, Aug. 11, 1862, Papers of Grant, 5:273n.
“I have no hobby of my own”: to Jesse Grant, Aug. 3, 1862.
“On the face of this wide earth”: Greeley to Lincoln, Aug. 19, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“I would save the Union”: Lincoln to Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“One morning he asked me … the end of the war”: David Homer Bates, “Lincoln in the Telegraph Office,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, May-Oct. 1907, 372-73.
“I said to the cabinet … to the government”: F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1867), 21-22.
“He said that nothing but foul play”: William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (1915), 1:128.
“A splendid army almost demoralized”: John J. Hennessey, Return to Bull Run (1999), 471.
“The President was in deep distress”: Bates note in Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:486n.
“The will of God prevails”: Lincoln note, undated (Sept. 2, 1862), Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:404.
“much weakened and demoralized”: Lee to Davis, Sept. 3, 1862, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, ed. A. L. Long (1886), 516.
“To the People of Maryland”: Lee proclamation, Sept. 8, 1862, in James D. McCabe Jr., Life and Campaigns of Robert E. Lee (1866), 239-40.
“When I say that they were hungry”: Mary Bedinger Mitchell, “A Woman’s Recollections of Antietam,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887), 2:687.
“My army is ruined by straggling”: McCabe, Life and Campaigns of Robert E. Lee, 31.
“Here is a paper”: Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan (1999), 282.
“I have all the plans of the rebels”: McClellan to Lincoln, Sept. 13, 1862, Lincoln Papers.
“God bless you”: Lincoln to McClellan, Sept. 15, 1862, Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:426.
“The thought of General Lee’s perilous position”: John G. Walker, “Sharpsburg,” Battles and Leaders, 2:675.
“The blue uniforms of the Federals”: James Longstreet, “The Invasion of Maryland,” Battles and Leaders, 2:667.
“Every stalk of corn”: Hooker report, Nov. 8, 1862, Official Records, 1:19(1):218.
“To those who have not been witnesses”: Walker, “Sharpsburg,” Battles and Leaders, 2:675-77.
“The line swayed forward and back”: Longstreet, “Invasion of Maryland,” Battles and Leaders, 2:668.
“No tongue can tell”: James M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (2002), 129.
“We awaited without apprehension”: Lee report, March 6, 1863, Reports of the Operations of the Army of Northern Virginia from June 1862 to and including the Battle at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862 (1864), 35-36.
“I concluded that the success of
an attack”: McClellan report, Aug. 4, 1863, Official Records, 1:19(1):65.
“As we could not look for a material increase”: Lee report, March 6, 1863, Reports of the Operations, 36.
“I was among the last”: Walker, “Sharpsburg,” Battles and Leaders, 2:682.
“The President directs”: Halleck to McClellan, Oct. 6, 1862, Official Records 1:19(1):10.
“The time has come now”: The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Journals, 1829-1872, ed. John Niven (1993), 394.
“Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy”: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Sept. 22, 1863, Collected Works of Lincoln, 5:433-34.
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“I am concentrated and strong … a rapid decline”: to Julia Dent Grant, Sept. 14, 1862.
“There is a large force”: to Julia Dent Grant, Sept. 15, 1862.
“Besides”: Memoirs, 275-76.
“You must engage the enemy”: to Ord, Sept. 20, 1862.
“We were in a country”: Memoirs, 278.
“It is now clear that Corinth is the point”: to Halleck, Oct. 1, 1862.
“The rebels are now massing”: to Halleck, Oct. 4, 1862.
“We should attack if they do not”: to Rosecrans, Oct. 2, 1862.
“The combined force of the enemy”: to Hurlbut, Oct. 4, 1862.
“Make all dispatch”: to Hurlbut, Oct. 4, 1862.
“If the enemy fall back”: to Rosecrans, Oct. 4, 1862.
“We move at daylight in the morning”: from Rosecrans, Oct. 4, 1862, Papers of Grant, 6:115n.
“The enemy are in full retreat”: to Halleck, Oct. 5, 1862.
“Everything looks most favorable”: to Halleck, Oct. 5, 1862.
“Push the enemy to the wall”: to Rosecrans, Oct. 5, 1862.
“You will avail yourself”: to Rosecrans, Oct. 6, 1862.
“Although partial success might result”: to Halleck, Oct. 8, 1862.
“I congratulate you”: Lincoln to Grant, Oct. 8, 1862, Works of Lincoln, 5:453.
“About eight hundred rebels already buried”: to Lincoln, Oct. 10, 1862.
“The victory was most triumphant”: to John Kelton, Oct. 30, 1865.
“With small reinforcements at Memphis”: to Halleck, Oct. 26, 1862.
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“It is, however, a very grave question”: to Chase, July 31, 1862.
“The mania for sudden fortunes”: Dana to Stanton, Jan. 21, 1863, in Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1899), 18-19.
“A greater pack of knaves never went unhung”: Porter to Sherman, Oct. 29, 1863, Official Records, 1:25:521.
“Gold and silver will not be paid”: General Orders No. 64, July 25, 1862, Official Records, 1:17(2):123.
“There is an evident disposition”: Grant to Halleck, July 28, 1862.
“It is very desirable … into market”: Halleck to Grant, Aug. 2, 1862, Official Records, 1:17(2):150.
“embarrassment … none of their dangers”: Memoirs, 266-67.
“It will be regarded as evidence”: General Orders No. 8, Nov. 19, 1862, Official Records, 1:52(1):302-03.
“My plans are all complete”: to Mary Grant, Dec. 15, 1862.
“Examine the baggage”: to Quinby, July 26, 1862.
“Refuse all permits to come south”: to Hurlbut, Nov. 9, 1862.
“Give orders to all the conductors”: to Webster, Nov. 10, 1862, Official Records, 1:17(2):337.
“I have long since believed”: to Christopher Wolcott, Dec. 17, 1862.
“The Jews, as a class”: General Orders No. 11, Dec. 17, 1862.
“The order was issued”: to I. N. Morris, Sept. 14, 1868, printed in New York Times, Nov. 30, 1868.
“I would write you many particulars”: to Jesse Grant, Sept. 17, 1862.
“It will be immediately revoked”: Halleck to Grant, Jan. 4, 1863, Official Records, 1:17(2):530.
“It excluded a whole class”: Kelton to Grant, Jan. 5, 1863, Papers of Grant, 7:54n.
“The President has no objection”: Halleck to Grant, Jan. 21, 1863, Papers of Grant, 7:54n.
“It is a great annoyance”: to Edward C. Ord, Oct. 24, 1862.
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“Vicksburg is the key”: David D. Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1886), 95-96.
“At this stage of the campaign”: Memoirs, 285.
“As soon as possible”: to Sherman, Dec. 8, 1862.
“The surrender of Holly Springs”: Memoirs, 290.
“The women came with smiling faces”: Adam Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865 (1881-85), 1:140-41.
“I found there was not sufficient confidence”: to Halleck, Jan. 20, 1863.
“General McClernand was a politician”: Memoirs, 294-95.
“We are now on the brink of destruction”: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995), 402-03.
“The draft would be resisted”: Memoirs, 296.
“I propose running a canal through”: to Halleck, Jan. 20, 1863.
“Work on the canal is progressing”: to Halleck, Feb. 3, 1863.
“The continuous rise in the river”: to Halleck, Feb. 9, 1863.
“There is no question”: to Halleck, Feb. 4, 1863.
“With this we were able”: Memoirs, 299.
“Hurry up”: Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, 161.
“I am very well but much perplexed”: to Julia Dent Grant, March 27, 1863.
“When these gunboats once go below”: Porter to Grant, March 29, 1863, Official Records, 1:24:518.
“The Mississippi at Milliken’s Bend … of that aristocracy”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1899), 28-29.
“He received me cordially”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 30.
“Grant’s staff is a curious mixture”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 72-73.
“A very brilliant man”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 57, 76.
“Grant was an uncommon fellow”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 61-62.
“It was an ugly place … and twenty-five discharges”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 36-37.
“The sight was magnificent”: Memoirs, 307-08.
“Our experiment of running the batteries”: to Halleck, April 19, 1863.
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“I move my headquarters to Carthage”: to Halleck, April 21, 1863.
“In company with Admiral Porter”: to Sherman, April 24, 1863.
“I am now embarking troops”: to Halleck, April 27, 1863.
“virtual possession of Vicksburg”: to Julia Dent Grant, April 28, 1863.
“From a tug out in the stream”: Grant report, July 6, 1863, Official Records, 1:19(1):48.
“The gunboats made another vigorous attack”: to Halleck, May 3, 1863.
“When this was effected”: Memoirs, 321.
“The march immediately commenced … in our possession”: to Halleck, May 3, 1863.
“Stop all troops”: Sherman to Grant, May 9, 1863, Official Records, 1:24(3):285.
“I do not calculate”: to Sherman, May 9, 1863.
“I shall communicate with Grand Gulf”: to Halleck, May 11, 1863.
“The enemy would have strengthened”: Memoirs, 328.
“The enemy is badly beaten”: to Sherman, May 3, 1863.
“Every day’s delay”: to William Hillyer, May 5, 1863.
“Two days more, or Tuesday next”: to Julia Dent Grant, May 9, 1863.
“Move your command tonight”: to McPherson, May 11, 1863.
“The enemy was driven at all points”: to McClernand, May 12, 1863.
“So I finally decided”: Memoirs, 332.
“Move one division of your corps”: to McClernand, May 13, 1863.
“Move directly towards Jackson”: to Sherman, May 13, 1863.
“Send me word”: to McPherson, May 14, 1863.
“He set about his work”: Adam Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865 (1881-8
5), 1:250.
“Just as I was leaving Jackson”: Sherman, Memoirs of Sherman, 347-48.
“I am concentrating my forces”: to Halleck, May 15, 1863.
“An intercepted message”: Badeau, Military History of Grant, 1:252n.
“I have just received information”: to McClernand, May 16, 1863.
“Great celerity should be shown”: to Sherman, May 16, 1863.
“It is one of the highest points”: Memoirs, 342.
“Had I known the ground”: Memoirs, 347.
“The enemy were driven”: to Sherman, May 16, 1863.
“While a battle is raging”: Memoirs, 348.
“The enemy were found”: Grant report, July 6, 1863.
“If possible, the forces”: from Halleck, May 11, 1863, Official Records, 1:24(3):36.
“I immediately mounted my horse”: Memoirs, 350.
“Notwithstanding the level ground”: Grant report, July 6, 1863.
“My men are now investing”: to Porter, May 19, 1862.
“Until this moment”: John S. C. Abbott, The Life of General Ulysses S. Grant (1868), 137.
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“If Haynes’ Bluff is untenable”: Johnston to Pemberton, May 17, 1863, Official Records, 1:24(3):888.
“The opinion was unanimously expressed”: Pemberton to Johnston, May 18, 1863, Official Records, 1:24(3):889-90.
“Johnston was in my rear”: Memoirs, 355.
“The assault was gallant”: Grant report, July 6, 1863.
“I don’t believe a word of it”: Memoirs of Sherman, 352.
“This last attack only served”: Memoirs, 356.
“The enemy has placed … but very palatable”: Pemberton report, Aug. 25, 1863, Official Records, 1:24(1):279-81.
“Even the very animals … young innocent life”: My Cave Life in Vicksburg, by “A Lady” (Mary Ann Webster Loughborough) (1864), 78-80.
“Unless the siege of Vicksburg … a yet indefinite period”: Pemberton report, Aug. 25, 1863, Official Records, 1:24(1):281-83.
“It was a glorious sight”: Memoirs, 375.
“The useless effusion of blood”: to Pemberton, July 3, 1863.