Terrible Swift Sword

by Bruce Catton

  Farragut, David Glasgow, Letter, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.

  Farragut, David Glasgow, Papers, David H. Annan Collection.

  Fessenden, Samuel, Miscellaneous Papers, Huntington Library.

  Floyd, John B., Papers, Duke University Library.

  Fox, G. V., Correspondence and Papers, New York Historical Society.

  Frémont, Jesse Benton, Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  Frémont, John Charles, Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California.

  Gamble Papers, Missouri Historical Society.

  Goldsborough, Louis M., Papers, Duke University Library.

  Grant, Ulysses S., Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  Grant, Ulysses S., Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.

  Grant, Ulysses S., Letter, Sang Collection.

  Greeley, Horace, Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  Greeley, Horace, Papers, Library of Congress.

  Halleck, H. W., Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  Halleck, H. W., Papers, Huntington Library.

  Harrison, Burton, Papers, Library of Congress.

  Hay, John, Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.

  Hill, D. H., Papers, Virginia State Library.

  Hitchcock, E. A., Papers, Missouri Historical Society.

  Hotchkiss, Jed, Papers, Alderman Library, University of Virginia.

  Howard, W. A., Letter, Shiloh National Military Park Collection.

  Humphreys, A. A., Collection, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

  Jackson, T. J., Letter, Simon Gratz Autograph Collection, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

  Jackson, T. J., Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.

  Johnson, Charles James, Papers, Louisiana State Dept. of Archives, Louisiana State University.

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  Johnston, Albert Sidney, Scrapbook, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.

  Jones, John R., Letter, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.

  Lamon, Ward Hill, Letters, Chicago Historical Society.

  Law, E. M., Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina.

  Lee, Robert E., Letter, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.

  Lee, Robert E., Letters, André de Coppet Collection, Princeton University Library.

  Lincoln, Abraham, Unpublished Lincoln File, Lincoln Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.

  Lincoln, Abraham, Papers, New York Historical Society.

  Longstreet, James, Letters, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.

  Longstreet, James, Papers, Duke University Library.

  McClellan, George B., Letters, Huntington Library.

  McClellan, George B., Sang Collection.

  Marble, Manton, Papers, Library of Congress, Nevins’ Notes.

  Meade, George G., Papers, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

  Mecklin, A. H., Diary, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

  Meigs, Montgomery C., Papers and Diaries, Library of Congress.

  Mulligan, Col. James A., Diary and Journal, Chicago Historical Society.

  Nicolay-Hay Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.

  Parsons, Lewis B., Papers, Illinois State Historical Library.

  Patrick, Marsena, Diaries, Library of Congress.

  Pearce, Gen. N. B., Reminiscences of, Arkansas History Commission.

  Pettus, John J., Correspondence, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

  Phillips, Eugenia, A Southern Woman’s Story of Her Imprisonment During the War of 1861–1862, Library of Congress.

  Pinkerton, Allan, Papers, Library of Congress.

  Pope, John, Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

  Pope, John, Letters, Huntington Library.

  Pope, John, Papers, New York Historical Society.

  Porter, Fitz John, Letter, Western Reserve Historical Society.

  Porter, Fitz John, Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

  Ray, Charles H., Letters, Huntington Library.

  Ross, Lawrence Sullivan, Letters, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas.

  Ryder Collection, Tufts University Library.

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, Papers, Huntington Library.

  Sigel, Franz, Letters, Huntington Library.

  Sigel, Franz, Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society.

  Smith, E. Kirby, Letter, Western Reserve Historical Society.

  Smith, G. W., Papers, Duke University Library.

  Smith, G. W., Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society.

  Smith, Oscar, Papers, Library of Congress.

  Smith, W. F., Papers, Walter Wilgus Collection.

  Solomon, Clara E., Diary of a New Orleans Girl, 1861–1862, Louisiana State Department of Archives, Louisiana State University.

  Stuart, James Ewell Brown, Papers, Duke University Library.

  Stuart, James Ewell Brown, Memoranda, Ryder Collection, Tufts University.

  Taggart, John, Diary and Letters, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

  Tarbell, Ida M., Papers, Allegheny College, Nevins’ Notes.

  Thompson, M. Jeff, Letter, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, extra illustrated, Huntington Library.

  Thompson, M. Jeff, Reminiscences, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library.

  Trask, W. L., Wartime Journal, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Trask Collection.

  Urquhart, Mrs. Robert Dow, Journal, Tulane University Library.

  Van Brunt, Harry, Letters, Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

  Warren, G. K., Papers, New York State Library.

  Wayne-Stites-Anderson Papers, Georgia Historical Society.

  Webb, Alexander Stewart, Collection, Yale University Library.

  SECTION III: Newspapers

  Extensive use has been made of newspapers covering the period treated in this volume. In some cases, quotations have been taken from newspapers, articles or editorials reprinted in such volumes as Moore’s Rebellion Record. All prominent papers of Charleston, S.C., Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, and Richmond, Va., have been directly consulted. In addition, other papers such as Harper’s Weekly, London Times, and Washington (Ark.) Telegraph for the war years have been used, as have articles in postwar papers up to the present time.

  SECTION IV: Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals

  Adams, Charles Francis, The Trent Affair, 1861–1862, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, Vol. XLV, Oct. 1911–June 1912.

  Adams, Ephraim Douglass, Great Britain and the American Civil War, two vols., Gloucester, Mass., 1957.

  Allan, William, The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, Boston, 1862.

  Allan, William, First Maryland Campaign, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XIV, Jan.–Dec. 1866.

  Allan, William, History of the Campaigns of T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Philadelphia, 1890, 1912.

  Allan, William, Strategy of the Campaign of Sharpsburg or Antietam, Vol. III, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1895.

  Ambrose, Stephen E., Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff, Baton Rouge, 1962.

  Ammen, Daniel, The Atlantic Coast, New York, 1883–85.

  Andreas, Alfred T., The “Ifs and Buts” of Shiloh, Military Essays and Recollections, Vol. I, Chicago, 1891.

  Annals of the War Written by Leading Participants North and South, Philadelphia, 1879.

  Armistead, Drury L., The Battle in Which General Johnston was Wounded, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XVIII, 1890.

  Bacon, George S., One Night’s Work, April 20, 1862, Magazine of American History, March 1886.

  Badeau, Adam, Military His
tory of Ulysses S. Grant, three vols., New York, 1868.

  Barnard, J. G., The Peninsular Campaign and Its Antecedents, New York, 1864.

  Bearss, Edwin C., The First Day at Pea Ridge, March 7, 1862, Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Vol. XVII, No. 2, Summer, 1958.

  Bearss, Edwin C., Maps of Pea Ridge.

  Bearss, Edwin C., Unconditional Surrender, The Fall of Fort Donelson, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, March & June 1862.

  Bedford, M. L., Fight Between the Batteries and Gunboats at Fort Donelson, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XIII, Jan.–Dec. 1885.

  Bennett, Frank M., The Steam Navy of the United States, two vols., Pittsburgh, 1897.

  Bennett, L. G. and Haigh, Wm. M., History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, Aurora, Ill., 1876.

  Bernard, George S., War Talks of Confederate Veterans, Petersburg, Va., 1892.

  Bernard, Montague, A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain During the American Civil War, London, 1870.

  Besse, S. B., U.S. Ironclad Monitor, Newport News, Va., 1936.

  Besse, S. B., C.S. Ironclad Virginia, Newport News, Va., 1937.

  Bierce, Ambrose, Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War, Chicago, 1956.

  Bill, Alfred Hoyt, The Beleaguered City, New York, 1946.

  Bishop, J. W., The Mill Springs Campaign, Glimpses of the Nation’s Struggle.

  Black, Robert C., The Railroads of the Confederacy, Chapel Hill, 1952.

  Blackford, W. W., War Years with Jeb Stuart, New York, 1945.

  Blair, Montgomery, Opening the Mississippi, The United Service, Jan. 1881.

  Blake, Henry N., Three Years in the Army of the Potomac, Boston, 1865.

  Blodgett, Edward A., The Army of the Southwest and the Battle of Pea Ridge, Military Essays and Recollections, Vol. II, Chicago, 1894.

  Bloss, John M., Antietam and the Lost Dispatch, Talks in Kansas, Vol. I, Kansas City, 1906.

  Bowman, S. M., and Irwin, R. B., Sherman and His Campaigns, New York, 1865.

  Boynton, H. V., Sherman’s Historical Raid, The Memoirs in the Light of the Record, Cincinnati, 1875.

  Bradlee, Francis B. C., Blockade Running During the Civil War and the Effect of Land and Water Transportation on the Confederacy, Salem, Mass., 1925.

  Bridges, Hal, Lee’s Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill, New York, 1961.

  British and Foreign State Papers, 1860–1861, also 1861–1862, Compiled by the Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office, London, 1868.

  Britton, Wiley, Civil War on the Border, two vols., New York, 1890.

  Brotherhead, W., General Frémont, and the Injustice Done Him by Politicians and Envious Military Men, Philadelphia, 1862.

  Brown, Junius H., Four Years in Secessia, Hartford, 1865.

  Brown, Walter Lee, Pea Ridge: Gettysburg of the West, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. XV, No. 1, Spring, 1956.

  Brownlow, W. G., Sketches of the Rise, Progress and Decline of Secession, Philadelphia, 1862.

  Bruce, George A., The Donelson Campaign, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. VII, Boston, 1908.

  Bruce, George A., General Buell’s Campaign Against Chattanooga, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. VIII, Boston, 1910.

  Bruce, George A., The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861–1865, Boston, 1906.

  Bushnell, Rev. Samuel, The Story of the Monitor and the Merrimac, no date.

  Butler, Benjamin F., Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, five vols., Norwood, Mass., 1917.

  Callahan, James Morton, The Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy, Springfield, Mass., 1957.

  Callender, Eliot, What a Boy Saw on the Mississippi, Military Essays and Recollections, Vol. I, Chicago, 1891.

  Carpenter, F. B., Six Months in the White House, Watkins Glen, N.Y., 1961.

  Carse, Robert, Department of the South, Hilton Head Island in the Civil War, Columbia, S.C., 1961.

  Catton, Bruce, Grant Moves South, Boston, 1960, and other works as cited.

  Chalmers, James R., Forrest and His Campaigns, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. VII, No. 9, Sept. 1879.

  Chambers, Lenoir, Stonewall Jackson, two vols., New York, 1959.

  Cheat Mountain: or, Unwritten Chapter of the Late War, By a Member of the Bar, Fayetteville, Tenn., Nashville, 1885.

  Church, William Conant, The Life of John Ericsson, two vols., London, 1890.

  Cist, Henry M., The Army of the Cumberland, New York, 1890.

  Civil War History and Civil War Times Illustrated, various issues.

  Clark, Charles, The Trent and San Jacinto, London, 1862.

  Clark, Victor S., History of Manufactures in the United States, two vols., New York, 1929.

  Coffin, Charles Carleton, My Days and Nights on the Battlefield, Boston, 1887.

  Confederate Military History, twelve vols., Atlanta, Georgia, 1899.

  Confederate Veteran, various issues.

  Conger, A. L., The Rise of U. S. Grant, New York, 1931.

  Connolly, James A., Three Years in the Army of the Cumberland. The Letters and Diary of Major James A. Connolly, edited by Paul M. Angle, Bloomington, 1959.

  Costi, Michele, Memoir of the Trent Affair, London, 1865.

  Coulter, E. Merton, The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1926.

  Cox, Jacob Dolson, Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, two vols., New York, 1900.

  Crummer, Wilbur C., With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, Oak Park, Ill., 1915.

  Cudworth, Warren H., History of the First Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, Boston, 1866.

  Curtis, Samuel Prentis, The Army of the South-West, and the First Campaign in Arkansas, The Annals of Iowa, Vol. IV–VI.

  Dabney, R. L., Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, New York, 1866.

  Dalton, John Call, John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V., Cambridge, Mass., 1892.

  Davis, Charles E., Three Years in the Army, The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861 to August 1, 1864, Boston, 1894.

  Davis, Charles W., New Madrid and Island No. 10, Military Essays and Recollections, Vol. I, Chicago, 1891.

  Davis, George B., The Antietam Campaign, Vol. III, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1895.

  Dawes, Ephraim C., The Battle of Shiloh, Vol. VII, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1908.

  De Trobriand, Regis, Four Years with the Army of the Potomac, Boston, 1889.

  Dewey, George, Autobiography, New York, 1913.

  Dowdey, Clifford, Experiment in Rebellion, Garden City, N.Y., 1946.

  Dufour, Charles L., The Night the War Was Lost, Garden City, N.Y., 1960.

  Edmands, Thomas F., Operations in North Carolina, 1861–1862, Vol. IX, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1912.

  Eisenschiml, Otto, The Celebrated Case of Fitz John Porter, Indianapolis, 1950.

  Eisenschiml, Otto, The Story of Shiloh, Chicago, 1946.

  An English Merchant, Two Months in the Confederate States, including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler, London, 1863.

  Farragut, Loyall, The Life of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral of the United States Navy, Embodying His Journal and Letters, New York, 1879.

  Foote, H. S., War of the Rebellion, New York, 1866.

  Force, M. F., From Fort Henry to Corinth, New York, 1908.

  Ford, Harvey S., Van Dorn and the Pea Ridge Campaign, Journal of the American Military Institute, Vol. III, No. 4, Winter, 1939.

  Frémont, Jessie Benton, The Story of the Guard: A Chronicle of the War, Boston, 1863.

  Fry, James B., Military Miscellanies, New York, 1889.

  Fry, James B., Operations of the Army Under Buell from June 10th to October 30, 1862 and the “Buell Commission,” New York, 1884.

  Gift, George W., The Story of the Arkansas, Southern Historical Society Pape
rs, Vol. XII, Nos. 1–5, Jan.–May 1884.

  Gordon, A. C., Hard Times in the Confederacy, Century Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, Sept. 1888.

  Gordon, George H., History of the Campaign of the Army of Virginia, Boston, 1889.

  Govan, Gilbert E., and Livingood, James W., The Chattanooga Country 1540–1951, New York, 1952.

  Govan, Gilbert E., and Livingood, James W., A Different Valor, The Story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A., Indianapolis, 1956.

  Government Contracts, House Report No. 2, two vols., 37th Congress, 2d Session, Washington, 1862.

  Green, John William, Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, A. D. Kirwin editor, Lexington, 1956.

  Greene, Francis Vinton, The Mississippi, New York, 1882.

  Hamlin, Charles Eugene, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, Cambridge, 1899.

  Harper, Robert S., Ohio Handbook of the Civil War, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, 1961.

  Harper’s Monthly, various issues.

  Harrington, Fred Harvey, Fighting Politician: Major General N. P. Banks, Philadelphia, 1948.

  Harris, Thomas L., The Trent Affair, Indianapolis, 1896.

  Hartje, Robert G., A Confederate Dilemma Across the Mississippi, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 2, Summer, 1958.

  Hassler, Warren W., Jr., General George B. McClellan: Shield of the Union, Baton Rouge, 1957.

  Haven, Franklin, Jr., The Conduct of General McClellan At Alexandria in August, 1862, Vol. II, Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1895.

  Hawk, Emory Q., Economic History of the South, New York, 1934.

  Hay, John, Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, Washington, 1908, printed but not published.

  Heysinger, Isaac W., Antietam and the Maryland and Virginia Campaigns of 1862, New York, 1912.

  Hill, D. H., The Lost Dispatch, The Land We Love, Vol. IV, Feb. 1868.

  Hinman, Wilbur F., The Story of the Sherman Brigade, no place, 1897.

  History of Lafayette County, Mo., no author, Missouri Historical Society, 1881.

  Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, Fifty Years in Camp and Field, New York, 1909.

  Hobart-Hampden, Augustus Charles, Hobart Pasha, Blockade-Running, Slaver-Hunting, and War and Sport in Turkey, edited by Horace Kephart, New York, 1915.

  Holcombe and Adams, An Account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills, Springfield, Mo., 1883.