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Moorestown, N.J., 1910.

Opdyke
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by Charles T. Clark.
Columbus, 1895.

Personal Recollections of
the Civil War,
by James Madison Stone. Boston, 1918.

Recollections of a Boy Member of Co. I, 14th Maine
Volunteers,
by Ira

B.
Gardner. Lewiston, Me., 1902.
Recollections
of the Civil War,
by Mason Whiting Tyler. New York, 1912.
Recollections of a Private,
by
Warren Lee Goss. New York, 1890.
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by Theodore M. Nagle. Erie, Pa., 1903.
Reminiscences of the 19th Massachusetts Regiment,
by
Captain John G. B. Adams. Boston, 1899.
The
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edited
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Rufus
R. Dawes. Marietta, O., 1890.
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Wood. New York,

1865.

A Sketch of the 8th New York Cavalry,
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Henry Norton. Norwich, N.Y., 1888.

A
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by
David Lane. Privately printed, 1905.

The
Story of the 15th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War,
by
Andrew E. Ford. Clinton, Mass., 1898.

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

The 20th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,
by
Lieutenant

Colonel George A. Bruce. Boston, 1906.
The 27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the
Rebellion,
by a

Member
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The
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by
Theodore B. Gates.

New
York, 1879.
Under Five
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"War
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War
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relating
to
specific
battles
and campaigns,
military
tactics
and
weapons,
etc.

The
Antietam and Fredericksburg,
by
Brevet Brigadier General Francis Winthrop Palfrey. New York, 1882.

The
Army of Northern Virginia in 1862,
by
Lieutenant Colonel William Allan. Boston, 1892.

The Army under Pope,
by John C. Ropes. New York, 1881.

Atlas
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Prepared
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Camp
and Outpost Duty for Infantry,
by
Brigadier General Daniel Butter-field. New York, 1862.

The
Campaign in Maryland and Virginia,
by
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& London, 1911.

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Vols. I and XIV,
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Society of Massachusetts,
edited by Theodore Dwight. Boston, 1895.
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by Adjutant General Martin T.

McMahon,
VI Army Corps, before the Vermont Officers Reunion

Society at Montpelier,
Vt., Nov. 11, 1880.
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Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant,
by
Colonel J. F. C. Fuller. New

York,
1929.

A
History of the United States Navy,
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Edgar Stanton Maclay. 3 vols. New York, 1898.

History
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by
Brevet Brigadier General George H. Gordon. Boston, 1880.

In
Memoriam: George Sears Greene.
Published
by authority of the State of New York under supervision of the New York
Monuments Commission, 1909.

Indiana at Antietam.
Report of the Indiana Antietam Monument Commission.
Indianapolis, 1912.

Joseph
K. F. Mansfield: A Narrative of Events Connected with His Mortal Wounding,
by John Mead Gould. Portland, Me., 1895.

The
Long Arm of Lee,
by Jennings C. Wise.
2 vols. Lynchburg, Va., 1915.

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United States,

by Major William Gilham.
Philadelphia, 1861.
New
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Loyal Legion

of the United States.
1894.
Papers
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Loyal Legion of the United States.
St. Louis, 1887.
The
Peninsula: McClellan's Campaigns of 1862,
by Major General Alex

S. Webb. New York, 1885.
Pennsylvania at Antietam.
Report of the Antietam Battlefield Memorial

Commission of
Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, 1906.
Record
of Dedicatory Ceremonies held on the Battlefield of Manassas, or

Second
Bull Run . . . under Auspices of the Veterans Association of

the 5th Regiment New York
Volunteer Infantry. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War,
by Lieutenant Colonel

William F. Fox. Albany, 1889.
Report of Major General George B. McClellan, from July 26,
1861, to

Nov. 7, 1862.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864.
Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics,
by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William
J.

Hardee. Philadelphia,
1855.
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Richard S. West.

New
York, 1937.

The
War of Secession, 1861-62,
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Major G. W. Redway. London & New York, 1910.

Notes

The general bibliography lists all of the
works which were consulted in the preparation of this text. No attempt has
been made to cite the authority for every statement of fact. It has seemed
advisable, however, to list the sources for direct quotations and to give at
least a general indication of the works which have been principally drawn on
for each chapter. This material is as follows:

CHAPTER ONE
1.
There Was Talk of Treason

A full account of the railroad man's meeting with
McClellan, his dealings with Hooker, Sturgis, and Stanton, and the problems
which were visited on him in connection with the second battle of Bull Run is
to be found in General Herman Haupt's
Reminiscences.
Use has also been made of material in
the
Official Records,
Series I, Volume XII, Part 3, and of McClellan's autobiography.
In his
Military Reminiscences,
General Jacob Cox shows what the second defeat at Bull Run
looked like from the fortified lines near Alexandria. Good sketches of Hancock
appear in the works cited under Footnote 3.

Specific references are:

1.
 
Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt.

2.
 
Ibid.

3.
History of the Second Army Corps,
by Brevet Brigadier General Francis
A. Walker. See also the same author's
General
Hancock; Following the Greek
Cross,
by Brevet Brigadier
General Thomas W. Hyde;
Meade's
Headquarters,
by Colonel Theodore Lyman, and Brevet
Major Joseph M. Favill's
Diary
of a
Young Officer.

4.
Haupt's
Reminiscences.

5.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War,
by Jacob D. Cox.
2. We Were Never Again Eager

The innocent, romantic spirit in which young men went off
to war in 1861

(and which they shed quite as rapidly as need be) is
reflected in any number of the accounts written by participants. Sometimes the
account expresses the writer's individual point of view, as in the case of
The Bivouac and the Battlefield,
by Captain George Freeman Noyes, who wrote his book while
the war was still going on—and who, being a staff officer, seems to have
retained his innocence a trifle longer than most. Sometimes it is revealed in
the accounts of the things green officers and men did as they struggled to turn
themselves into soldiers. Two appealing pictures of the formation of the famous
Black Hat Brigade are available—one in the memoirs of its first commander,
General John Gibbon, and one in the regimental history of one of its
components, the 6th Wisconsin Infantry. Specific references are:

1.
 
Three Years in the Army of the Potomac,
by Henry N. Blake;
Following
the Greek Cross,
and
The Diary of an Enlisted Man,
by Lawrence Van Alstyne.

2.
The Bivouac and the Battlefield.

3.
 
Personal Recollections of the Civil War,
by Brigadier General John Gibbon. (A book well worth
reading; a likable and admirable soldier unconsciously reveals himself in it.)

4.
 
For the foregoing incidents, see
Service with the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers,
by Brevet Brigadier General Rufus R. Dawes.

5.
War
Years with Jeb Stuart,
by
Lieutenant Colonel W. W. Blackford.
This amazing fight which introduced the Black Hat Brigade to actual combat

is of course described briefly in all standard accounts of
the second battle of Bull Run. Most of the details in the text are from General
Gibbon and General Dawes.

3.
You Must Never Be Frightened

Federal reports of the second battle of Bull Run are to be
found in the
Official Records,
Series I, Volume XII, Part 2. Running accounts of the
battle from the Federal viewpoint are contained in General George H. Gordon's
History of the Campaign of the Army of Virginia
and in
The
Army under Pope,
by John C. Ropes. For
the Confederate side, see Douglas Southall Freeman's exhaustive accounts in his
R. E. Lee
and
Lee's
Lieutenants,
and Colonel G. F. R.
Henderson's
Stonewall Jackson.
General Pope's curious special pleading about the battle
is in Volume II, Part 2, of
Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War.