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13.
O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, p. 534; A Different Valor, pp. 220–221.
14.
B. & L., Vol. III, pp. 492, 536; Major George H. Heafford, “The Army of the Tennessee,” in Vol. I, War Papers of the Wisconsin Commandery, Loyal Legion, p. 313; New York Tribune for July 15, 1863, printing a Vicksburg dispatch dated July 4.
15.
Badeau, Vol. I, pp. 388, 409–410; O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, pp. 546–547.
16.
O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, p. 587.
17.
Anecdotes of General Grant, pp. 42–43; Captain Jacob S. Wilken, in Military Essays and Recollections, Vol. IV, p. 223.
18.
Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, The Old Navy and the New, p. 383.
19.
Excerpt from a sketch written by Julia Dent Grant, printed in the Chicago Sunday Tribune of December 14, 1902.
20.
O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, pp. 498, 547. Promotion in the Regular service was of enormous importance to all Regular Army officers in the Civi’ War. Commissions in the Volunteer service would of course lapse when the war ended, and a major general might go back to captain’s rank, overnight—a thing which finally happened to several soldiers of real distinction. A man who won a general’s commission in the Regular service could go his way knowing that his professional career was assured. To put the matter on an extremely practical basis, he would not need to look on the coming of peace as a disaster to his own personal fortunes.
21.
Basler, Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 326. The letter is dated July 13, 1863.
Bibliography
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
U. S. Grant Papers in the Missouri Historical Society.
U. S. Grant Papers in the Illinois State Historical Library.
Letters of U. S. Grant to General James B. McPherson, in the Rutgers University Library.
Memoirs written by Julia Dent Grant, in the possession of a descendant.
Elihu B. Washburne Papers, in the Library of Congress.
William T. Sherman Papers, in the Library of Congress.
Letter of General Sherman to Mrs. Sherman, loaned by Miss E. Sherman Fitch; in the Lloyd Lewis Papers.
W. T. Sherman Papers, in the Huntington Library.
The R. T. Lincoln Collection, in the Library of Congress.
Manuscript Memoir of General John C. Frémont, in the Bancroft Library, University of California.
The George G. Pride Collection, in the Missouri Historical Society.
Papers of General Charles F. Smith, loaned by W. Terry Oliver, of Glenbrook, Connecticut.
Joseph Kirkland Papers, in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Edwin M. Stanton Papers, in the Library of Congress.
The DeCoppett Collection, Princeton University Library.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Diaries, in the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ms. Diary of General Jacob Ammen, in the Illinois State Historical Library.
Papers of Senator James R. Doolittle, in the State Historical Library, Madison, Wisconsin.
Ms. Biography of General John A. McClernand, by General Edward J. McClernand, in the Illinois State Historical Library.
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Letters of General Lew Wallace, in the Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
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Ms. Letter of Richard Puffer of the 8th Illinois, in the Chicago Historical Society.
Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge: typescript in the Iowa State Department of History and Archives.
The Oliver Barrett Collection.
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Letters of Abram S. Funk of the 35th Iowa; loaned by Mrs. Erie M. Funk of Long Beach, California.
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
Use was made of numerous newspaper and magazine files. Many of these were in the immense set of newspaper clippings collected by Lloyd Lewis; others were consulted in various libraries. Newspapers and magazines quoted in the text include:
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri Republican, New York Tribune, New York Herald, New York Times, New York World, Washington Post, Galena Northwestern Gazette, Cincinnati Commercial, Chicago Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Journal, National Tribune and National Republican.
Also McClure’s Magazine, Army and Navy Journal, Midland Monthly, Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Iowa Historical Record, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, North American Review, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Chicago Forum and American Heritage.
BOOKS
A principal reliance in any study of the Civil War is of course the massive War Department compendium, “The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.” This is cited in the footnotes simply as O. R.; unless otherwise specified, the volumes used are from Series One. Use has also been made of the companion “Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies during the War of the Rebellion.”
Other books consulted include the following:
BOOKS RELATING DIRECTLY TO GRANT
Adam Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant. 3 vols. New York, 1868.
Sylvanus Cadwallader, Three Years with Grant, edited by Benjamin P. Thomas. New York, 1955.
William Conant Church, Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction. New York, 1897.
A. L. Conger, The Rise of U. S. Grant. New York, 1931.
Louis A. Coolidge, Ulysses S. Grant. Boston and New York, 1917.
Henry Coppee, Life and Services of General U. S. Grant. Chicago, 1868.
Jesse Grant Cramer, ed., Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his Father and his Youngest Sister. New York, 1912.
Nelson Cross, The Modern Ulysses, LL.D.; His Political Record. New York, 1872.
Wilbur F. Crummer, With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg. Oak Park, Ill., 1915.
Charles A. Dana and James H. Wilson, The Life of Ulysses S. Grant. Springfield, 1868.
John Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. New York, 1907.
J. F. C. Fuller, The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant. London, 1929.
Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant; his Life and Character. New York, 1898.
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. 2 vols. New York, 1885.
William B. Hesseltine, Ulysses S. Grant, Politician. New York, 1935.
Lloyd Lewis, Captain Sam Grant. Boston, 1950.
John B. McMaster, The Life, Memoirs, Military Career and Death of General Grant. Philadelphia, 1885.
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant. New York, 1897.
Albert D. Richardson, A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant. Hartford, 1868.
J. L. Ringwalt, Anecdotes of General Grant. Philadelphia, 1886.
James Grant Wilson, The Life and Campaigns of General Grant. New York, 1897.
——, ed., General Grant’s Letters to a Friend, 1861–1880. New York, 1897.
John Russell Young, Around the World with General Grant. 2 vols. New York, 1879.
GENERAL WORKS
Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, The Old Navy and the New. Philadelphia, 1891.
Roy Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 8 vols. Rutgers, New Jersey, 1953.
D. Alexander Brown, Griersor’s Raid. Urbana, Illinois, 1954.
Bruce Catton, This Ha
llowed Ground. New York, 1956.
Augustus L. Chetlain, Recollections of Seventy Years. Galena, Illinois, 1899.
Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865. New York, 1956.
Jacob D. Cox, Military Reminiscences of the Civil War. 2 vols. New York, 1900.
Emmet Crozier, Yankee Reporters, 1861–65. New York, 1956.
Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War. New York, 1902.
Major General Grenville Dodge, Personal Recollections. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1914.
David Donald, ed., Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase. New York and London, 1954.
Clement Eaton, A History of the Southern Confederacy. New York, 1954.
M. F. Force, From Fort Henry to Corinth. New York, 1882.
Gustavus V. Fox, Confidential Correspondence of G. V. Fox, 1861–65. 2 vols. New York, 1920.
Jessie Benton Frémont, The Story of the Guard; a Chronicle of the War. Boston, 1863.
H. Allen Gosnell, Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War. Baton Rouge, 1949.
Gilbert Govan and James W. Livingood, A Different Valor: The Story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. Indianapolis, 1956.
Francis Vinton Greene, The Mississippi. New York, 1884.
Matilda Gresham, The Life of Walter Quintin Gresham. 2 vols. Chicago, 1919.
M. B. Hammond, The Cotton Industry: An Essay in American Economic History. New York, 1892.
Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army. 2 vols. Washington, 1903.
Robert Selph Henry, First with the Most: Forrest. Indianapolis, 1944.
——, The Story of the Confederacy. Indianapolis, 1931.
Stanley Horn, The Army of Tennessee. Indianapolis, 1941.
M. A. DeWolfe Howe, ed., Home Letters of General Sherman. New York, 1909.
Gaillard Hunt, Israel, Elihu and Cadwallader Washburne: A Chapter in American Biography. New York, 1925.
R. U. Johnson and C. C. Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York, 1884–1887.
Lloyd Lewis, Sherman, Fighting Prophet. New York, 1932.
T. J. Lindsay, Ohio at Shiloh: Report of the Commission. Cincinnati, 1903.
T. L. Livermore, Numbers and Losses in the Civil War. Boston and New York, 1900.
A. T. Mahan, The Gulf and Inland Waters. New York, 1883.
George B. McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story. New York, 1887.
Alexander K. McClure, Recollections of Half a Century. Philadelphia, 1892.
——, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War Time. Philadelphia, 1892.
A. Howard Meneely, The War Department, 1861: A Study in Mobilization and Administration. New York, 1928.
Allan Nevins, Frémont: Pathmarker of the West. New York and London, 1939.
John C. Pemberton, Pemberton, Defender of Vicksburg. Chapel Hill, 1944.
Admiral David Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War. New York, 1885.
Benjamin A. Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War. Boston, 1953.
Charles W. Ramsdell, Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy. Baton Rouge, 1944.
Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War; her Statesmen, her Generals and Soldiers. 2 vols. Cincinnati, 1868.
Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. 4 vols. New York, 1939.
Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, Forty-six Years in the Army. New York, 1897.
William F. G. Shanks, Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals. New York, 1866.
Fred A. Shannon, The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865. 2 vols. Cleveland, 1928.
General Philip Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. 2 vols. New York, 1891.
General W. T. Sherman, The Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman. 2 vols. New York, 1893.
Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James A. Garfield. 2 vols. New Haven, 1925.
Arndt M. Stickles, Simon Bolivar Buckner. Chapel Hill, 1940.
Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln. New York, 1952.
Rachel Sherman Thorndike, ed., The Sherman Letters; Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891. New York, 1894.
Thomas B. Van Home, History of the Army of the Cumberland. 2 vols. Cincinnati, 1875.
Lew Wallace, An Autobiography. 2 vols. New York and London, 1906.
George W. Williams, A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion. New York, 1888.
Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General. 4 vols. New York, 1950–1956.
T. Harry Williams, P. G. T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray. Baton Rouge, 1954.
James H. Wilson, Under the Old Flag. 2 vols. New York, 1912.
——, The Life of John A. Rawlins. New York, 1916.
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES, SOLDIERS’ MEMOIRS, PERSONAL REMINISCENCES, etc.
In an attempt to simplify the reader’s search for the account of a given unit, these are listed by titles rather than by the names of the authors.
The Annals of the War, written by Leading Participants. Philadelphia, 1879.
Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Letters and Diaries of the late Charles H. Wills, compiled and published by his Sister. Washington, 1906.
Army Life: from a Soldier’s Journal, by A. O. Marshall. Joliet, Illinois, 1884.
Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, Company D, 15th Illinois Infantry. Chicago, 1894.
An Artilleryman’s Diary, by Jenkin Lloyd Jones. Madison, Wisconsin, 1914.
A Battery at Close Quarters, by Captain Henry Neil; pamphlet of paper read before the Ohio Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. N.p.,n.d.
Campaigns and Battles of the 12th Iowa Infantry, by Major David Reed. Evanston, Illinois, 1903.
Civil War Papers, read before the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 2 vols. Boston, 1900.
A Corporal’s Story: Experiences in the Ranks of Company C, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by Charles W. Wright. Philadelphia, 1887.
Downing’s War Diary, by Sergeant Alexander Downing, edited by Olynthus B. Clark. Des Moines, 1916.
Events of the Civil War, by General Edward Bouton. Los Angeles, 1906.
Experiences in the War of the Great Rebellion, by Edmund Newsome. Carbondale, Illinois, 1876.
Fifteen Years Ago: or, the Patriotism of Will County, by George H. Woodruff. Joliet, 1876.
Fifth Annual Reunion of the Ninth Illinois Regiment Veteran Volunteer Association. Pamphlet. 1885.
The 15th Ohio Volunteers and its Campaigns, War of 1861–65, by Alexis Coupe. Columbus, Ohio, 1916.
The 41st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by R. L. Kimberly and Ephraim S. Holloway. Cleveland, 1897.
The 44th Indiana Volunteers in the Rebellion, by J. H. Rerick. Lagrange, Indiana, 1880.
Glimpses of the Nation’s Struggle: a series of Papers read before the Minnesota Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 6 vols. St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1887–1909.
History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois, edited by William Henry Perrin. Chicago, 1883.
History of the 15th Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by William W. Belknap. Keokuk, Iowa, 1887.
History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry, by Samuel Fletcher. N.p.,n.d.
History of the 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, by P. O. Avery. Humboldt, Nebraska, 1903.
History of the 53rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by John K. Duke. Portsmouth, Ohio, 1900.
A History of the Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Marion Morrison. Monmouth, Illinois, 1864.
History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, by Henry H. Wright. Iowa City, 1923.
History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by William R. Hartpence. Cincinnati, 1894.
History of the Sixth Regiment Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by C. C. Briant. Indianapolis, 1891.
History of the 68th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by Edwin W. High. Metamora, Ind., 1902.
History of the 50th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Charles F. Hubert. Kansas City, 1894.
History of Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, by Charles H. Smith. Cleveland, 1909.
History of the 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by Captain S. S. Canfield, Toledo, 1893.
History of the 78th Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by the Rev. Thomas M. Stevenson. Zanesville, Ohio, 1865.
History of the Second Iowa Cavalry, by Lyman B. Pierce. Burlington, Iowa, 1865.
History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by D. Lieb Ambrose. Springfield, Illinois, 1868.
History of the 77th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Lieutenant W. H. Bentley. Peoria, Illinois, 1883.
History of the 83rd Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by Joseph Grecian. Cincinnati, 1865.
History of the 16th Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, compiled by a committee. N.p., 1906.
History of the 33rd Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, by Isaac H. Elliott and Virgil G. Way. Gibson City, Illinois, 1902.
History of the Fourth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, by Alonzo H. Brown. St. Paul, 1892.
Letters from the Army, by B. F. Stevenson. Cincinnati, 1884.
Lights and Shadows of Army Life, by the Rev. W. W. Lyle. Cincinnati, 1865.
Marching Through Georgia, by F. Y. Hedley. Chicago, 1890.
Memoir of George Boardman Boomer, by Amelia M. Stone. Boston, 1864.
Memoirs of the War, by Captain Ephraim A. Wilson. Cleveland, 1893.
Memoirs of a Volunteer, by John Beatty, edited by Henry S. Ford. New York, 1946.
Military Essays and Recollections: Papers read before the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 4 vols. Chicago, 1894–1907.
Muskets and Medicine; or, Army Life in the Sixties, by Charles Beneulyn Johnson, M.D. Philadelphia, 1917.
Opening of the Mississippi; or, Two Years Campaigning in the Southwest, by George W. Driggs. Madison, Wisconsin, 1864.
Papers of the Kansas Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Leavenworth, 1894.
Pen and Powder, by Franc B. Wilkie. Boston, 1888.