Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided (51 page)

151. Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 245; Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 19.

152. “Proclamation of Col. Porterfield,” Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents, 324–25; Hornbeck,
Upshur Brothers
, 9.

153. Ibid., 9; Phillips, “History of Valley Furnace,” IV, V; Poe,
Personal Reminiscences
, 3; Stewart, “First Infantry Fight of the War,” 500;
O. R
. 1, vol. 2, 52.

154. Poe,
Personal Reminiscences
, 4–5;
O. R
. vol. 2, 72.

155. Statement of Colonel Porterfield, Haselberger,
Yanks From the South!
, 291; Statement of J.B. Moomau, Ibid., 280; Phillips, “History of Valley Furnace,” IV, V.

156. Ibid.; Price,
On To Grafton
, 9; Cammack,
Personal Recollections
, 20.

157.
O. R
. vol. 2, 66; Merrill,
The Soldier of Indiana
, 28; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 569; Obituary of Thomas Morris,
Indianapolis News
, March 24, 1904, Stutler Collection, WVSA.

158.
O. R
. vol. 2, 66; Rawling,
History of the First Regiment Virginia Infantry
, 24.

159. Merrill,
The Soldier of Indiana
, 25; Beatty,
The Citizen-Soldier
, 90;
O. R
. vol. 2, 66–67; Rawling,
History of the First Regiment Virginia Infantry
, 24. Rawling lists the Federal marching distances as twenty-two miles for Col. Kelley, twelve for Col. Dumont.

160. Thomson,
Narrative of the Service of the Seventh Indiana Infantry
, 20–21; Grayson,
History of the Sixth Indiana Regiment
, 22; Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 16; F. W. Lander to GBM, June 8, 1861, McClellan Papers, LC.

161.
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, July 19, 1861; Statement of Jonathan H. Haymond, Haselberger,
Yanks From The South!
, 290–91; J.E. Hanger, Record of Services, Stutler Collection, WVSA.

162. Haselberger,
Yanks From The South!
, 268, 275, 279, 287, 291;
O. R
. vol. 2, 72–74.

163. G.A. Porterfield to Hu Maxwell, August 12, 1899 in Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 250; Price,
On To Grafton
, 22; Carnes,
The Tygarts Valley Line
, 42.

164.
O. R
. vol. 2, 67; F. W. Lander to GBM, June 8, 1861, McClellan Papers, LC; Ecelbarger,
Frederick W. Lander
, 1–2, 19–21, 33, 60; Warner,
Generals In Blue
, 274–275; Headley,
Massachusetts in the Rebellion
, 619–620, 629.

165. Stevenson,
Indiana's Roll of Honor
, 45; Carnes,
The Tygarts Valley Line
, 45; Haselberger,
Yanks From The South!
, 71–72; Dayton, “The Beginning—Philippi, 1861,” 260.

166. Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents, 334;
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, June 6, 1861.

167. Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 255–56n; Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 16–17; J.E. Hanger, Record of Services, Stutler Collection, WVSA; F. W. Lander to GBM, June 8, 1861, McClellan Papers, LC. Some accounts claim that Mrs. Humphreys fired at Colonel Lander himself, see Stevenson,
Indiana's Roll of Honor
, vol. 1, 44 and
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
, June 22, 1861.

168. Statement of Lewis Fahrion, May 17, 1928, PC; Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents, 334–35; Merrill,
The Soldier of Indiana
, 31; Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 17.

169. Hall,
The Diary of a Confederate Soldier
, 13; Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 256n.

170. G.A. Porterfield to Hu Maxwell, August 12, 1899 in Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 251; Statement of Daniel A. Stofer in Haselberger,
Yanks From The South!
, 276; “Active Service; or, Campaigning in Western Virginia,” 334; Skidmore,
The Civil War Journal of Billy Davis
, 38.

171. Kemper, “The Battle of Philippi,” 5; Skidmore,
The Civil War Journal of Billy Davis
, 38; Leib,
Nine Months in the Quartermaster's Department
, 15–16; Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents, 334; Price,
On To Grafton
, 21.

172.
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, August 10, 1906 in Hall,
Lee's Invasion of Northwestern Virginia
, 54; Statement of W. D. Hogshead in Haselberger,
Yanks From The South!
, 286.

173. Kemper, “The Seventh Regiment,” 123–24; Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 2, Rumors and Incidents, 82;
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
, June 29, 1861, 102–03.

174.
O. R
. vol. 2, 67–68;
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, June 6, 1861; F. W. Lander to GBM, June 8, 1861, McClellan Papers, LC; Hall,
Lee's Invasion of Northwestern Virginia
, 56; Stewart, “Battle of Philippi Recounted,” 117–18.
See also
Haselberger,
Yanks From the South!
, 72–73 and Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 257n for discussion on the circumstances of Colonel Kelley's wounding.

175.
O. R
. vol. 2, 66–67; Cammack,
Personal Recollections
, 21.

176. Ibid., 21; Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 251; Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 2, Rumors and Incidents, 82; Statement of Daniel A. Stofer in Haselberger,
Yanks From The South!
, 278; Stewart, “Battle of Philippi Recounted,” 118.

177. Kemper, “Seventh Regiment,” 124; Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents 334; Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 19; Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 2, Rumors and Incidents, 82. The term “skedaddle” was soon in common use by Indiana troops at Laurel Hill, see Hannaford,
The Story of a Regiment
, 547.

178. Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents 334; Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 256; Rawling,
History of the First Regiment Virginia Infantry
, 27; Carnes,
The Tygarts Valley Line
, 55. Private Charles Degner, Company I, Seventh Indiana Volunteers, never reached the battlefield. While crossing a foot-log over a small stream during the night march, Degner lost his balance and accidentally shot himself in the thigh, reportedly dying two days later.
See also
Fansler,
History of Tucker County
, 147n and Skidmore,
Civil War Journal of Billy Davis
, 37. Thomson,
Seventh Indiana Infantry
, 37, reports that Degner was killed on June 15, “while scouting.”

179.
O. R
. vol. 2, 67–68; Price,
On To Grafton
, 23;
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, June 6, 1861; Rawling,
History of the First Regiment Virginia Infantry
, 234–35, 237–38. The wounded Federals were all members of the First (U.S.) Virginia Infantry.

180. Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents, 335; San Francisco Examiner, July 19, 1891 in Morris,
Ambrose Bierce
, 26;
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
June 6, 1861; Lang,
Loyal West Virginia
, 321;
The New York Herald
, June 4, 1861;
O. R
. vol. 2, 65.

181. J.E. Hanger, Record of Services, Stutler Collection, WVSA; Carnes,
J.E. Hanger
; Letter of D.H. Mugridge, November 2, 1960, Stutler Collection, WVSA.

182. Irons, “History of a Noted Physician,” 28–29; Carnes,
J.E. Hanger
.

183.
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, June 6, 1861; Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 2, Rumors and Incidents, 82; Dayton, “The Beginning—Philippi, 1861,” 265; Carnes,
The Tygarts Valley Line
, 50–51.

184. Maxwell,
History of Barbour County
, 259n; Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, Official Report, June 4, 1861 in Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 1, Documents, 335;
O. R
. vol. 2, 71.

185. Ibid., 65; Lang,
Loyal West Virginia
, 321;
The New York Herald
, June 4, 1861; W.S. Rosecrans to GBM, June 5, 1861, McClellan Papers, LC.

186. Lang,
Loyal West Virginia
, 142–43.

187. Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 18–20; Kemper, “The Battle of Philippi,” 6, 13.

188. McClellan,
Report on the Organization
, 18–19;
O . R
. vol. 2, 673–74;
O . R
. ser. 1 vol. 51, pt. 1, 393–94; Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 22–23.

189. Dewitt C. Howard to P.S. Bishop, August 2, 1861, PC; Monfort, “From Grafton to McDowell Through Tygart's Valley,” 3.

190. Neal,
Life of Ambrose Bierce
, 33, 35, 37, 53–55; Bierce,
Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
, 4.

191. Brigham, “The Civil War Journal of William B. Fletcher,” 51–52, 64. Neatly written in one corner of the apron received by Dr. Fletcher was “Abbie Fleming, Flemington, Taylor, Co. Va.”

192. Lewis,
How West Virginia Was Made
, 77, 79–80, 93, 155. It is interesting to note that eighteen counties embracing more than one third of present-day West Virginia were not represented at this convention;
see also
Ambler,
Francis H. Pierpont
, 96.

193. Reid, “
Agate” Dispatches
, 13.

194. Lewis,
How West Virginia Was Made
, 81–82, 155; Ambler,
Waitman Thomas Willey
, 49, 56n. Waitman Willey's stepmother died on June 17, 1861, and his father passed just five days later at the home of Col. William J. “Bridge-burner” Willey in Farmington.

195. Lewis,
How West Virginia Was Made
, 84, 159–70; McGregor,
Disruption
, 209; Hall,
The Rending of Virginia
, 351.

196. Lewis,
How West Virginia Was Made
, 85, 92–93, 171–73.

197. Ibid., 106–10, 125.

198. Ibid., 115, 159–70.

199. Ibid., 134–35, 138; Hall,
The Rending of Virginia
, 331.

200. Lewis,
How West Virginia Was Made
, 139n; Reader,
History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry
, 17;
O. R
. ser. 1, vol. 2, 713.

201. Reader,
History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry
, 17–18;
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, July 3, 1861; Hall,
The Rending of Virginia
, 343; Lewis,
Second Biennial Report
, 190; Moore,
A Banner in the Hills
, 85. An additional sum of $200,000 for Pierpont's government was appropriated by the Lincoln administration;
see also
Curry,
A House Divided
, 166.

202. Hall,
The Rending of Virginia
, 335; Lewis,
How West Virginia Was Made
, 183.

203.
O. R
. vol. 2, 723–24.

204.
O. R
. vol. 2, 69–70; Arnold, “Battle of Rich Mountain,” 46; Cammack,
Personal Recollections
, 21.

205.
O. R
. vol. 2, 72–74. A transcript of Colonel Porterfield's Court of Inquiry is published in Haselberger,
Yanks From the South!
, 267–94.

206. Ibid., 911–12; Taylor,
Four Years
, 13, 15; Freeman,
R.E. Lee
, vol. 1, 518.

207. Moore,
Rebellion Record
, Documents, 290, 295.

208. Guie,
Bugles in the Valley
, 124–25, 149–54; Cullum,
Biographical Register
, 93; Special Orders No. 132. Adjutant General's Office, September 3, 1852, MC; Chesnut,
A Diary from Dixie
, 126.