by Jack Hurst
3 Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard, 1:311; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 139.
4 Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard, 1:342.
5 Daniel, Shiloh, 289–291; Cunningham, Joiner, and Smith, Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862, 367–368.
6 Lewis, Sherman, 229 (emphasis added).
CHAPTER 10
1 Grant, Personal Memoirs, 188.
2 Daniel, Shiloh, 249; Cunningham, Joiner, and Smith, Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862, 343; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 413.
3 Daniel, Shiloh, 289–291.
4 Grant, Personal Memoirs, 191; O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 2, 94.
5 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 413; O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 2, 97.
6 Marszalek, Sherman, 23; Lewis, Sherman, 97; O. R. (1), vol. 7, 595; Smith, Grant, 152; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 4:215n, 216n; Grant, Personal Memoirs, 169.
7 Marszalek, Sherman, 6–10, 23, 113–114.
8 Ibid., 6, 15–16, 7, 402, 114–116.
9 Ibid., 160–169, 171, 173. Richard L. Kiper, Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999), 56, 60, 29–30; Smith, Grant, 83; Bruce Catton, Grant Moves South, 1861–1863 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1960), 87–89; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 3:324, 360n, 361; ibid., 4:22–23, 114, 166.
CHAPTER 11
1 Daniel, Shiloh, 296.
2 Ibid., 295–296; O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 620, 640; ibid., pt. 2, 399.
3 Daniel, Shiloh, 296; O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 640.
4 O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 640; Daniel, Shiloh, 296–297; O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 263, 640; Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 78; Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest, 80–81; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 146–148. The official reports are O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 262–264, 639–641, 923–924.
5 Harvey Mathes, General Forrest (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902), 60; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 146–148; Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 78–81; Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest, 80–81.
6 For Terry’s Texas Rangers, see Patricia Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Harper & Row, 1986), 750.
7 O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 627, 923–924.
8 For Wharton’s and Harrison’s backgrounds, see Warner, Generals in Gray, 331–332, 127.
9 For example, at the battle of Dover, Tennessee, with Wharton and Major General Joseph Wheeler in February 1863 and with Major General Stephen Lee at Tupelo in July 1864.
10 Duke, The Civil War Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C. S. A., 348–349; Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 9–10.
11 Andrew Lytle, Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company (New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1931), 14–15; Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest , 35.
12 Albert T. Goodloe, Confederate Echoes (Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1907), 179.
CHAPTER 12
1 Daniel, Shiloh, 304.
2 Ibid., 304–305.
3 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 4:47, 102; Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822–1865 (New York: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2000), 44.
4 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 4:119, 73, 102, 78.
5 O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 292 ; Smith, The Untold Story of Shiloh, 27–28.
6 O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 1, 113–114.
7 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 3:324, 325–328, etc.; Daniel, Shiloh, 304–306; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:51n; Daniel, Shiloh, 306.
8 John Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry Halleck (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 122–123.
9 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:48–49n.
10 Ibid., 72, 102.
11 Daniel, Shiloh, 306–308; Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion,(Washington, DC: GPO, 1894), vol. 22, 280–281; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 4:115–116n.
12 William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 116.
CHAPTER 13
1 Simon, Papers of U.S. Grant, 5:105–106n.
2 Ibid., 114, 115n. For the Grant-Halleck exchanges in the wake of Fort Donelson, see Grant, Personal Memoirs, 174–176; Smith, Grant, 177, 178; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 4:344n, 318, 320, 327, 331, 331n, 344n, 353, 354n, 355.
3 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:116, 120.
4 Ibid., 110; Grant, Personal Memoirs, 203–204; Smith, Grant, 659n.
5 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:118; Grant, Personal Memoirs, 204; O. R. (1), vol. 10, pt. 2, 223, 225, 228.
6 Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies, 123–124.
7 Lew Wallace, An Autobiography (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906), 1:575–576.
8 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:117, 127, 130, 135, 103, 124; Smith, Grant, 94.
9 Lewis, Sherman, 235.
10 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:130, 103.
11 Ibid., 5:140, 141n.
12 Benson Bobrick, Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 114–115, 95, 36–37, 275.
13 Ibid., 4, 14, 15, 28–38, 42.
14 Ibid., 115. Bobrick views Thomas’s act as a self-sacrifice done out of “regard for Grant.” Jean Edward Smith, in his biography of Grant, Personal Memoirs , 266, pictures the two men more than a year later as stoic, kindred spirits who understood each other intuitively and were “bonding.” Both characterizations seem strained. But other sources indicate that there was a mutual Grant-Thomas coolness and that it dated from Thomas’s brief command of Grant’s army.
15 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:142–143.
CHAPTER 14
1 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 692–714.
2 Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard, 1:402; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 159, 159n. For John Scott, see David A. Powell, Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joseph Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign (New York: Savas Beatie, 2010), xxxv.
3 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 159.
4 T. Harry Williams, P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955), 156–157; Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard, 1:401–402; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 144, 146–147; Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 627; Duke, The Civil War Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C. S. A., 346.
5 Mathes, General Forrest, 63.
6 Kate Cumming, A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War (Louisville, KY, 1866), 12–19.
7 Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard, 1:402.
8 Ibid.; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 159–161; Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest, 83, 85.
9 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 722–723.
10 Ibid., 102.
11 Ibid., pt. 1, 711.
12 Ibid., 775.
13 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 173n.
14 John C. Spence, Annals of Rutherford County (Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1991), 2:170.
15 Spence, Annals, 2:167; Henry Down Jamison and Marguerite McTigue, Letters and Recollections of a Confederate Soldier, 1860–1865 (Nashville, 1964), 17; John C. Spence, A Diary of the Civil War (Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1993), 40, 41; Spence, Annals, 2:167; Spence, Diary, 35.
16 Charles W. Bennett, “Historical Sketches of the Ninth Michigan Infantry,” quoted in a July 1937 newspaper clipping on file at Oaklands Museum, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 794, 808, 801.
17 Spence, Diary, 38–39; Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 90–91; Henry, “First with the Mo
st” Forrest, 482n.
18 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 83, 93.
19 Ibid., pt. 1, 35.
20 Ibid., 794–795.
21 Ibid., 810.
22 Ibid.; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 162–163; Lytle, Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, 91.
23 “Forrest’s Birthday Party,” a 1937 newspaper clipping on file at Oaklands Museum, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
24 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 801; Mathes, General Forrest, 65; O. R (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 810; H. W. Graber, The Life Record of H. W. Graber, a Terry Texas Ranger, 1861–1865 (H. W. Graber, 1916), 66.
25 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 164; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 810.
26 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 798.
27 “Forrest’s Birthday Party,” a 1937 newspaper clipping on file at Oaklands Museum, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 798.
28 “Forrest’s Birthday Party” clipping; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 802.
29 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 804, 802, 795, 805; Spence, Diary, 44; Graber, Life Record, 66; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 165n; John Randolph Poole, Cracker Cavaliers: The Second Georgia Cavalry Under Wheeler and Forrest (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000), 22.
30 Graber, Life Record, 66–67.
31 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 166; Graber, Life Record, 67.
32 Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 90.
33 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 799; Graber, Life Record, 68.
34 Graber, Life Record, 67.
35 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 810. The Georgians were with the Second Georgia.
36 Spence, Diary, 44; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 796. These Georgians apparently were from both the First and Second Georgia regiments. The Texans were a detachment accompanying the Georgians on the first assault on the square.
37 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 805; Spence, Diary, 45.
38 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 810; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 168; Spence, Diary, 45. Here Forrest’s official report apparently misidentifies Morrison as being with the Second Georgia.
39 Spence, Diary, 45; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 801, 796.
40 Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 91.
41 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 169.
42 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 799.
43 Ibid., 810, 799; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 169; Lytle, Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, 96.
44 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 800; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 170; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 810.
45 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 805.
46 Ibid., 807.
47 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 171; for remembering Donelson and Shiloh, see Lytle, Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, 97.
48 Graber, Life Record, 68–69; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 802.
49 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 805.
50 Ibid., 806.
51 Ibid., 805, 806; “Forrest’s Birthday Party,” a 1937 newspaper clipping on file at Oaklands Museum, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
52 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 171; Graber, Life Record, 69.
53 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 805–806.
54 Ibid., 799, 808, 807.
55 Ibid., 799. Forrest’s report says only that he summoned both camps to surrender.
56 Lytle, Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company, 98; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 811, 808, 802.
57 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 807–808, 792, 799–800.
58 Ibid., 808, 809, 811.
59 “Forrest’s Birthday Party,” a 1937 newspaper clipping on file at Oaklands Museum, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 175; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 806–807.60. Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 170; Graber, Life Record, 70. Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 92; Brian Steel Wills, A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest (New York: Harper-Collins, 1992), 77.
CHAPTER 15
1 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:204, 207n.
2 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 793.
3 Smith, Grant, 213–214; Grant, Personal Memoirs, 211–212.
4 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:182n, 190n, 192n.
5 Ibid., 225; Grant, Personal Memoirs, 207.
6 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:226n.
7 Ibid., 218, 264.
8 Ibid., 311.
9 Ibid.
10 Kiper, Major General John Alexander McClernand, 129–131.
11 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:168n, 168, 169, 169n.
12 Ibid., 227, 250, 251n, 278.
13 Ibid., 338, 340.
14 Ibid., 51.
15 Ibid., 340.
16 Ibid., 250; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 783.
17 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 5:169, 169n.
18 O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 52–55.
19 Ibid., 60–65.
20 Ibid., 61–62.
21 Ibid., 65.
22 Ibid., 65–66; ibid., pt. 2, 222.
23 Ibid., pt. 1, 65, 118, 66.
24 Ibid., 66–67, 118–119.
25 Ibid., 123, 119.
26 Ibid., 90, 94; The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War (New York: Crown, 1978), plate 25, no. 2; O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 99, 97, 91, 107, 108, 95–96, 88, 92, 104, 109–110.
27 O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 67.
28 Ibid., 68.
29 Ibid., 79.
30 Ibid., 107.
31 O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 352–353, 344, 251, 168, 252–253, 386, 254–257, 205, 227, 168–169.
32 Ibid., 157–158; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 6:106.
33 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 6; O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 158, 160.
34 O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 169, 257, 259–260, 227.
35 Ibid., 201, 281, 228; Smith, Grant, 219.
36 O. R. (1), vol. 17, pt. 1, 173–176, 382–384, 158.
37 Ibid., 267.
CHAPTER 16
1 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 175–176; Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest, 91; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 363.
2 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 157, 162, 146, 169.
3 Ibid., pt. 1, 818, 852; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 176–177.
4 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt.1, 818–819.
5 Ibid., 816; ibid., pt. 2, 266, 234.
6 McWhiney, Braxton Bragg, 3, 2; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 18–19.
7 McWhiney, Braxton Bragg, 1, 2, 4.
8 Ibid., 19.
9 Ibid., 16, 17; for the old-army anecdote, see Grant, Personal Memoirs, 362.
10 Roman, The Military Operations of General Beauregard, 1:594.
11 The face-to-face meeting appears to have occurred sometime around August 10. Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 178; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 749, 757, 761; Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest , 96.
12 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 749.
13 Ibid., 748.
14 Ibid., 761.
15 Ibid., 368, 364.
16 Ibid., 770.
17 Ibid., 452.
18 Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest, 96–97; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 180–181.
19 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 453.
20 Ibid., 761; Faust, Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War, 818; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 893.
21 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 462–463.
22 Craig L. Symonds, Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992), 271.
23 Jamison and McTigue, Letters and Recollections of a Confederate Soldier, 19, 18, 20.
24 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 182.
25 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 483; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 181–183.
26 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 1, 893, 894.
27 Ibid.; Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 184. The latter says Forrest arrived in Glasgow “about September 8,” but the actual date must have been September 12 or 13.
28 John P. Dyer, Fightin’ Joe Wheeler (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1941), 3–4, 9–11.
29 Ibid., 17–18, 9, 11n.
30 Ibid., 23–25, 27.
31 Ibid., 39, 15, 14; Joseph Wheeler, Campaigns of Wheeler and His Cavalry (Atlanta: Hodgins Publishing Company, 1899), 8.
32 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 824, 828, 832, 827.
33 Southern Historical Society Papers, 7: 455; US census records for 1850, 368; Warner, Generals in Gray, 7.
34 Johnson and Buel, Battles and Leaders, 3:10.
35 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 830, 856, 861, 856, 858.
36 Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983), 296; O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 846, 852, 889.
37 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 837–838.
38 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 185n. For lore on Forrest’s Bragg grousing, see Lytle, Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company , 110.
39 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 856, 863.
40 Ibid., 865–866, 868.
41 Ibid., 876–877, 868.
42 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 186.
43 Henry, “First with the Most” Forrest, 102, 104.
44 Jordan and Pryor, The Campaigns of Lieutenant General Forrest, 189.
45 O. R. (1), vol. 16, pt. 2, 918, 929, 931, 952, 972.