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by Douglas Southall Freeman


  7 Lee, Wartime Papers, 198-200; OR 11:1, 116-17.

  8 Dabney memorandum (March 10, 1896), Hotchkiss Papers.

  9 Dabney memorandum, Hotchkiss Papers; Davis Collection, Tulane University.

  10 Dabney, Jackson, 440.

  11 Dabney memorandum, Hotchkiss Papers; OR 11:2, 881; OR 11:3, 620.

  12 OR 11:2, 756, 881-82, 834-35.

  13 Dabney memorandum, Hotchkiss Papers; OR 11:2, 552, 562.

  14 OR 11:2, 882, 886, 835.

  15 OR 11:2, 882, 614, 553, 562; Dabney memorandum, Hotchkiss Papers.

  16 OR 11:2, 860, 882, 835.

  17 OR 11:2, 835-36, 491, 648, 899.

  18 Total casualties came to some 1,475, of which 335 were in the 44th Georgia.

  19 OR 11:2, 853-54.

  20 OR 11:2, 836-37.

  21 OR 11:2, 757.

  22 OR 11:2, 624; Dabney, Jackson, 443.

  23 OR 11:2, 615, 605-6, 492-93, 757.

  24 OR 11:2, 553; Dabney memorandum, Hotchkiss Papers.

  25 Dabney memorandum, Hotchkiss Papers; OR 11:2, 568, 606, 595, 570.

  26 J. E. Cooke, Outlines from the Outpost, 50-51; Cooke, Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography, 200.

  27 CV 19, 78; Clark, North Carolina Regiments 1, 304; OR 11:2, 757, 595; Dabney, Jackson, 455.

  28 Clark, North Carolina Regiments 4, 445; OR 11:2, 625-26.

  29 Dabney, Jackson, 454; OR 11:2, 758.

  30 OR 11:3, 238; OR 11:1, 51-60; Alexander, Military Memoirs, 131.

  31 J. L. Brent, Memoirs of the War Between the States, 158-59.

  32 OR 11:2, 662.

  33 OR 11:2, 662.

  34 Brent, Memoirs, 181; OR 11:2, 663.

  35 OR 11:2, 789, 664.

  36 OR 11:2, 675, 664.

  37 OR 11:2, 726, 691, 717, 665, 687.

  38 OR 11:2, 61, 431, 464, 477.

  Chapter 12: Richmond Relieved

  1 OR 11:2, 797, 789, 181, 185.

  2 Dabney memorandum (April 22, 1896), Hotchkiss Papers; OR 12:1, 728.

  3 J. E. B. Stuart Papers, Huntington Library.

  4 OR 11:2, 789-90, 797, 495.

  5 Brent, Memoirs, 191-92.

  6 Dabney, Jackson, 464; Battles and Leaders 2, 387; OR 11:2, 653.

  7 Dabney, Jackson, 465; OR 11:2, 655; Alexander, Military Memoirs, 148.

  8 Alexander, Military Memoirs, 149-51; Dabney, Jackson, 465; OR 11:2, 627, 655.

  9 OR 11:2, 557; Howard, Recollections, 148.

  10 OR 11:2, 627, 557, 810, 566; Dabney, Jackson, 466-67; Alexander, Military Memoirs, 149-51.

  11 OR 11:3, 392, 617.

  12 OR 11:2, 907, 911; Clark, North Carolina Regiments 3, 163, 39; Battles and Leaders 2, 390.

  13 Brent, Memoirs, 193-94; OR 11:2, 910, 908.

  14 OR 11:2, 718, 666-67, 705, 707; Longstreet, Manassas to Appomattox, 139.

  15 For the battle of June 30, variously known as Glendale, Frayser’s Farm, and Riddell’s Shop, see Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 184ff.

  16 OR 11:2, 790

  17 Battles and Leaders 2, 391.

  18 OR 11:2, 496, 667.

  19 OR 11:2, 566.

  20 OR 11:2, 675-77, 668, 691.

  21 OR 11:2, 557, 496, 566, 811, 818.

  22 OR 11:2, 274, 811-12.

  23 OR 11:2, 818-19, 566.

  24 Battles and Leaders 2, 391; OR 11:2, 496, 628, 669, 677.

  25 OR 11:2, 562, 572, 653, 812; Longstreet, Manassas to Appomattox, 144.

  26 OR 11:2, 628, 819, 691-92, 719.

  27 OR 11:2, 819, 677-78, 566; Brent, Memoirs, 211.

  28 OR 11:2, 669, 794, 814, 670, 749; Brent, Memoirs, 216.

  29 OR 11:2, 729, 643, 634, 650.

  30 OR 11:2, 795, 692, 719, 204

  Chapter 13: Lessons of the Seven Days

  1 Alexander, Military Memoirs, 171, 174.

  2 SHSP 12, 105ff.; OR 11:3, 630.

  3 Caffey, Battle-fields of the South, 373; Putnam, Richmond During the War, 148; Charleston Mercury, June 28, 1862; SHSP 28, 293; OR 11:3, 641.

  4 OR 11:2, 660-74, 675-77, 684, 682, 679-80.

  5 OR 15, 826, 880; OR 11:2, 674.

  6 Putnam, Richmond During the War, 148; OR 11:2, 495, 818, 790.

  7 OR 11:2, 629, 672, 495.

  8 OR 2, 481, 476; OR 11:3, 484.

  9 OR 51:2, 577-78; OR 11:3, 612-13

  10 OR 11:2, 536; Susan P. Lee, Memoirs of William Nelson Pendleton, 194-95.

  11 OR 11:2, 547.

  12 Dabney memorandum (March 31, 1896), Hotchkiss Papers; OR 11:2, 555, 492, 496, 566-67; R. H. McKim, A Soldiers Recollections, 92.

  13 Jones, War Clerk’s Diary 1, 38-39; Raphael J. Moses, “Autobiography,” Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.

  14 Woodward, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 157; Jones, War Clerk’s Diary 1, 40; Richmond Dispatch, July 24, 26, Richmond Whig, July 29, 1861.

  15 Ulrich B. Phillips, ed., The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, 575, 577-78; Sorrel, Recollections, 53.

  16 Phillips, Correspondence of Toombs, 594-95; Pleasant A. Stovall, Robert Toombs, Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage, 243.

  17 Stovall, Robert Toombs, 254-57, 601.

  18 OR 11:2, 493, 496, 554, 558-59; John B. Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War, 67-68; SHSP 28, 292-93.

  19 D. H. Hill, Jr., Bethel to Sharpsburg 2, 197ff.; OR 9, 496; OR 12:3, 917.

  20 OR 11:2, 516-17; R.T.L. Beale, Ninth Virginia Cavalry, 26.

  21 OR 11:2, 517-18.

  22 OR 11:2, 518.

  23 OR 11:2, 519-20.

  24 Dabney, Jackson, 480-81; Alexander, Military Memoirs, 169.

  25 OR 11:3, 657; OR 11:1, 1041.

  26 OR 11:2, 515, 522.

  27 W. N. McDonald, The Laurel Brigade, 196; Rosser mss., University of Virginia; OR 11:2, 532, 521.

  28 SHSP 35, 57; SHSP 14, 11; CV 6, 270; Richmond Examiner, June 4, 1861.

  29 OR 11:2, 837, 818-19, 983; SHSP 14, 12; Stiles, Four Years Under Marse Robert, 110.

  30 OR 11:2, 763, 776, 758-59, 556.

  31 OR 11:2, 776, 980.

  32 OR 11:2, 838-39, 626.

  33 Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart, 79, 82; SHSP 19, 311.

  34 Battles and Leaders 2, 405, 389; Dabney, Jackson, 466-67; William Allan, The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, 121.

  35 OR 11:2, 552-53, 557; Henderson, Stonewall Jackson 2, 57.

  36 Boteler in SHSP 40, 180-81.

  37 Richmond Examiner, June 28, July 2, 8, 1862.

  38 Sorrel, Recollections, 80-81; Richmond Whig, July 11, 1862; OR 11:3, 639-40; OR 51:2, 590-91.

  39 Sorrel, Recollections, 81; Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, 39; OR 12:3, 919.

  40 Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 93.

  Chapter 14: Facing a New Threat

  1 Hotchkiss, Journal, 62.

  2 Frank Paxton, The Civil War Letters of General Frank “Bull” Paxton, 49.

  3 OR 12:3, 919.

  4 John O. Casler, Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, 101-2.

  5 McDonald, Laurel Brigade, 75-76.

  6 OR 12:3, 926; Freeman, Lee’s Dispatches, 43.

  7 Jackson letter book, Hotchkiss Papers; Garnett Papers.

  8 Garnett Papers; OR 12:2, 182.

  9 Howard, Recollections, 162.

  10 OR 12:2, 214-15, 217, 181.

  11 OR 12:3, 924, 922-23; John S. Mosby, War Reminiscences, 243-44.

  12 OR 12:2, 21, 5, 23, 25; OR 12:3, 548.

  13 OR 12:3, 553, 133, 547; OR 12:2, 153.

  14 OR 12:2, 180-81, 226.

  15 OR 12:2, 183, 215; Hotchkiss, Journal, 66; Howard, Recollections, 165.

  16 Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 165; OR 12:2, 223, 188, 215; Hotchkiss, Journal, 66.

  17 OR 12:2, 228-29; Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 93-94.

  18 OR 12:2, 229; Myers, The Comanches, 88; Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 94.

  19 Howard, Recollections, 167; OR 12:2, 229-30; Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 95-96.

  20 OR 12:2, 237-38, 230, 213-14
; Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 96-97; Howard, Recollections, 169.

  21 Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 95.

  22 Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 97; OR 12:2, 189, 226.

  23 OR 12:2, 205, 289, 231, 219.

  24 OR 12:2, 187, 231, 206; Dabney, Jackson, 501; Henderson, Stonewall Jackson 2, 95.

  25 OR 12:2, 192, 222-23; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 124.

  26 OR 12:2, 184, 189, 215, 236.

  27 OR 12:2, 184, 187, 226, 216, 239; Anna Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, 312.

  28 OR 12:2, 184-85.

  29 Dabney, Jackson, 505; OR 12:2, 184, 180, 139.

  30 OR 12:2, 146-47.

  31 OR 12:2, 185, 145; Dabney, Jackson, 507.

  32 Howard, Recollections, 170-71; Anna Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, 312; OR 12:2, 178.

  33 OR 12:2, 223; John Hampden Chamberlayne, Ham Chamberlayne: Letters of an Artillery Officer, 90.

  34 OR 12:2, 10, 6.

  35 Richmond Examiner, Richmond Whig, August 12, 1862; Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 265ff.

  36 OR 51:2, 593-94; OR 11:3, 671; OR 12:3, 930-31.

  37 OR 51:2, 1075.

  38 OR 12:2, 552.

  39 OR 12:2, 726; Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart, 97-98; von Borcke, Memoirs 1, 105ff.

  40 OR 12:2, 726; OR 12:3, 934, 940; Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, 183.

  41 OR 12:2, 580; Sorrel, Recollections, 94-95; Phillips, Correspondence of Toombs, 603-4.

  Chapter 15: Return to Manassas

  1 OR 12:2, 550, 547.

  2 OR 12:2, 729, 726; Hotchkiss, Journal, 69.

  3 OR 12:2, 727; McDonald, Laurel Brigade, 74.

  4 OR 12:2, 731-32; OR 12:3, 941; von Borcke, Memoirs 1, 124; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 133-34.

  5 OR 12:2, 705-8; G. M. Neese, Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery, 101-2.

  6 OR 12:2, 718-19, 605.

  7 Hotchkiss, Journal, 71; Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 99-100; SHSP 14, 209-10.

  8 OR 12:2, 553-54; Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 297ff.

  9 OR 12:2, 650.

  10 Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 203; OR 12:2, 678; Hotchkiss, Journal, 71-72.

  11 Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 203; OR 12:2, 747; Battles and Leaders 2, 533; Dabney, Jackson, 517.

  12 OR 12:2, 650.

  13 OR 12:2, 734.

  14 OR 12:2, 747-48, 650-51, 708; Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart, 112-15; Clark, North Carolina Regiments 2, 151.

  15 OR 12:2, 670, 720-21, 643; Clark, North Carolina Regiments 2, 153.

  16 Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 215; Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 103; OR 12:2, 656, 721; Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart, 115; Casler, Stonewall Brigade, 107.

  17 OR 12:2, 540-41, 260; Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 104-5.

  18 OR 12:2, 656; Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 216; Worsham, Jackson’s Foot Cavalry, 121; Chamberlayne, Letters, 99.

  19 OR 12:2, 644, 656, 670.

  20 Hamlin, Ewell Letters, 125-26.

  21 OR 12:2, 664, 656-57, 644-45.

  22 Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart, 120-21; OR 12:2, 657, 710-11.

  23 OR 12:2, 645, 658, 711; P. G. Hamlin, Old Bald Head, 129.

  24 OR 12:2, 645, 38.

  25 OR 12:2, 645, 652; Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 114; Worsham, Jackson’s Foot Cavalry, 130-31; Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 318.

  26 OR 12:2, 646, 735-36, 711-12, 687, 652, 680.

  27 OR 12:2, 646, 687, 681; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 138.

  28 SHSP 13, 34; Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 124; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 138; Chamberlayne, Letters, 100.

  29 OR 12:2, 672, 681, 646; Withrow Papers, Washington and Lee University.

  30 Battles and Leaders 2, 523; OR 12:2, 605.

  31 Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 119; OR 12:2, 671.

  32 OR 12:2, 647; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 140.

  33 OR 12:2, 577-78; Worsham, Jackson’s Foot Cavalry, 132; Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 262ff; Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 331ff

  34 Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 338; Jackson mss., Confederate Memorial Institute; OR 12:2, 682, 714; Hotchkiss, Journal, 77.

  35 OR 12:2, 677, 715, 672, 813.

  36 OR 12:2, 551.

  37 Alexander, Military Memoirs, 219.

  Chapter 16: Across the Potomac

  1 Charleston Mercury, September 6, 1862.

  2 Howard, Recollections, 180-81.

  3 Hood, Advance and Retreat, 38-39.

  4 Jackson mss., Confederate Memorial Institute.

  5 Richmond Dispatch, August 20, 21, 1862; OR 19:2, 596, 597; Louise Haskell Daly, Alexander Cheves Haskell: The Portrait of a Man, 84.

  6 Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 352; Sorrel, Recollections, 103; W. M. Owen, In Camp and Battle With the Washington Artillery of New Orleans, 130.

  7 Clark, North Carolina Regiments 2, 293, 296.

  8 L. W. Hopkins, From Bull Run to Appomattox, 51; OR 19:2, 592.

  9 Von Borcke, Memoirs 1, 185.

  10 Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 340; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 147-49; Sorrel, Recollections, 97

  11 Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 149-50.

  12 Von Borcke, Memoirs 1, 193-97; Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart, 140-42.

  13 Worsham, Jackson’s Foot Cavalry, 138; Moore, Cannoneer Under Jackson, 130ff.; J. F. J. Caldwell, The History of Gregg’s Brigade of South Carolinians, 41.

  14 Cooke, Jackson, 310; OR 19:2, 596, 602.

  15 OR 19:2, 603, 592; Battles and Leaders 2, 606, 663; Longstreet, Manassas to Appomattox, 202-3.

  16 Land We Love 4, 274, 275; SHSP 13, 420, 421.

  17 Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 151-52.

  18 Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 158; OR 19:2, 604.

  19 Frank Moore, ed., The Rebellion Record 5, 444.

  20 OR 19:1, 145, 839; William Allan Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.

  21 OR 19:1, 1019, 145; Battles and Leaders 2, 560.

  22 OR 19:2, 595.

  23 OR 19:1, 816, 140, 146; Battles and Leaders 2, 560; SHSP 39, 36; Allan Papers, Southern Historical Collection.

  24 OR 19:1, 817.

  25 Allan Papers, Southern Historical Collection.

  26 Battles and Leaders 2, 561-62; OR 19:1, 1019-20.

  27 Battles and Leaders 2, 562-64; SHSP 39, 35; OR 19:1, 1040.

  28 Battles and Leaders 2, 564-66.

  29 OR 19:1, 1020, 459, 215.

  30 OR 19:1, 1020, 898, 903.

  31 OR 19:1, 1020-21, 908-9, 922.

  32 OR 19:1, 1021, 1034-36.

  33 OR 19:1, 1021, 1022. Confederate losses were about 2, 300, Federal losses 1, 831.

  34 OR 19:1, 852-53, 862.

  35 OR 19:1, 853, 863; D. Augustus Dickert, History of Kershaw’s Brigade, 148.

  36 OR 19:1, 863, 854; Dickert, Kershaw’s Brigade, 148.

  37 OR 19:1, 853-54, 873, 818, 870.

  38 OR 19:1, 854-55, 870-71, 873; von Borcke, Memoirs 1, 217-18.

  39 Battles and Leaders 2, 571; OR 51:2, 618-19; Freeman, R. E. Lee 2, 371.

  Chapter 17: Desperate Hours on the Antietam

  1 OR 19:1, 953.

  2 OR 19:1, 958, 953.

  3 OR 19:1, 951.

  4 OR 19:1, 914, 955.

  5 OR 19:1, 955, 984; Allan, Army of Northern Virginia, 340; Early, Autobiographical Sketch, 137.

  6 Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 162; OR 19:1, 529-30, 951.

  7 OR 19:1, 951, 955, 960-61; von Borcke, Memoirs, 1, 224-25.

  8 Caldwell, Gregg’s Brigade, 43; Dickert, Kershaw’s Brigade, 150.

  9 OR 19:1, 967, 1007, 955.

  10 OR 19:1, 147, 839.

  11 Hood, Advance and Retreat, 42.

  12 OR 19:1, 956.

  13 Lee, Memoirs of Pendleton, 216; Hood, Advance and Retreat, 44.

  14 Lee, Memoirs of Pendleton, 216; OR 19:1, 923; Hood, Advance and Retreat, 44; SHSP 8, 528.

  15 OR 19:1, 909, 914-15, 858-59, 971.

  16 Gordon, Reminiscences, 84.

  17 OR 19:1, 1023, 1037-38; Alexander
, Military Memoirs, 262.

  18 OR 19:1, 1024, 849-50; Sorrel, Recollections, 105.

  19 OR 19:1, 1024.

  20 Clark, North Carolina Regiments 2, 436-37; Sorrel, Recollections, 107.

  21 OR 19:1, 61.

  22 OR 19:1, 886.

  23 Stovall, Robert Toombs, 270.

  24 OR 19:1, 890-91.

  25 OR 19:1, 886, 1030, 897, 891.

  26 OR 19:1, 988; Alexander, Military Memoirs, 266.

  27 Daly, Alexander Cheves Haskell, 80.

  28 OR 19:1, 891-92; CV 6, 28.

  29 OR 19:1, 981; Daly, Alexander Cheves Haskell, 81-82.

  30 Lee, Memoirs of Pendleton, 213; OR 19:1, 831-32.

  31 OR 19:1, 832-34, 982; Lee, Memoirs of Pendleton, 214; Emily Mason, Popular Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, 151; Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, 184.

  32 OR 19:1, 982, 834.

  33 Chamberlayne, Letters, 116, 134; OR 19:1, 151.

  Chapter 18: Rebuilding an Army

  1 Richmond Enquirer, September 22, 24, Charleston Mercury, September 23, Richmond Dispatch, September 30, 1862.

  2 IV OR 2, 198; OR 19:2, 643.

  3 Sorrel, Recollections, 108; Owen, Washington Artillery, 157; OR 19:1, 841.

  4 Lee, Memoirs of Pendleton, 230.

  5 Walker in Battles and Leaders 2, 679; Hood, Advance and Retreat, 45. Walker has Jackson saying he will drive McClellan into the Potomac; surely he said the Antietam, not the Potomac.

  6 Light Division letter book, New York Public Library; Jackson mss., Confederate Memorial Institute.

  7 OR 19:2, 729-33.

  8 OR 19:2, 643.

  9 Anna Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, 349-50.

  10 OR 19:1, 981.

  11 IV OR 2, 97, 109.

  12 IV OR 2, 110, 114.

  13 IV OR 2, 205-7

  14 Hood, Advance and Retreat, 38-39; OR 19:1, 923.

  15 OR 19:2, 680, 681, 682.

  16 Jackson letter book, Hotchkiss Papers; OR 19:1, 149, 821, 956.

  17 OR 19:1, 915-16, 840, 1021, 1027; Gordon, Reminiscences, 88-91.

  18 OR 19:1, 821, 969-71, 1017.

  19 OR 19:2, 677, 678.

  20 OR 19:2, 683-84.

  21 OR 25:2, 645; Howard, Recollections, 180-81.

  22 Eppa Hunton, Autobiography of Eppa Hunton, 81.

  23 OR 19:1, 150; Jones, War Clerk’s Diary 1, 241.

  24 OR 19:1, 854, 758-59.

  25 OR 19:1, 855-57, 148.

  26 Chamberlayne, Letters, 134.

  27 OR 19:1, 1021, 1027, 1033; Henry W. Thomas, History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, 68-69.

  28 OR 21, 1030.

  29 OR 19:1, 821, 897, 981.

  30 OR 19:2, 597; OR 19:1, 1008.

  31 OR 19:2, 55.

  32 R. Channing Price, October 15, 1862, Price Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.

 

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