Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided (58 page)

533. “Cincinnati ‘Times’ Narrative,” Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 3, Documents, 164; Landon, “The Fourteenth Indiana Regiment,” 367–68.

534.
O. R
. vol. 5, 223, 227, 232, 235; Thomson,
Narrative of the Seventh Indiana Infantry
, 55; J.T. Wilder to his wife, October 5, 1861 in Williams, “General John T. Wilder,” 173. One correspondent reported that the Seventh Indiana Infantry “broke and ran,” sparking controversy that triggered an amusing rebuttal. The ranking officers of three sister regiments ultimately weighed in to swear they had seen “no running” by Dumont's Hoosiers that day! See “Letter to the Editor,”
Cincinnati Daily Times
, October 14, 1861 in Harris Milroy Papers, IHS.

535.
O. R
. vol. 5, 221, 227; “Cincinnati ‘Times’ Narrative,” Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 3, Documents, 164; John D.H. Ross to Agnes Reid, October 5, 1861 in Oram, “Letters of Colonel John De Hart Ross,” 167; “From the First Georgia Regiment—The Battle of the Greenbrier,”
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
, October 11, 1861.

536.
O. R
. vol. 5, 221, 224; “The Battle of Greenbrier River,”
Augusta Daily Constitutionalist
, October 11, 1861; Letter of Lucian Barber, October 16, 1861, Lucian Barber Papers, LC.

537. Hall,
Diary of a Confederate Soldier
, 29; Irby Scott to his father, October 5, 1861, Irby Scott Letters, DU; “Armed Reconnaissance on Camp Bartow,”
Cincinnati Daily Commercial
, October 9, 1861; Cammack,
Personal Recollections
, 38. The Cincinnati Daily Commercial tallied Federal artillery fire as follows: Loomis' Battery—more than six hundred rounds; Howe's Battery—four hundred rounds; Daum's gun—eighty-five rounds. Other counts placed the total at 1,500 rounds or more.
See also “
Cincinnati ‘Times’ Narrative,” Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 3, Documents, 165; Ben May to his brother, October 5, 1861, PC.

538.
O. R
. vol. 5, 221, 223, 227–29.

539. Pool,
Under Canvas
, 54.

540. “From the First Georgia Regiment—The Battle of the Greenbrier,”
Augusta Daily Chronicle and Sentinel
, October 11, 1861; Clayton Wilson to his father, October 4, 1861, PC. A detailed account of the “Lost Flag” story may be found in Thomson,
Narrative of the Seventh Indiana Infantry
, 56–58.

541. Clayton Wilson to his father, October 4, 1861, PC; Bierce,
Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
, 5–6; Hewitt,
Supplement to the Official Records
, pt. 2, vol. 16, 16. Bierce's tale may be embellished, but the circumstances of Abbott's death are well documented.

542.
O. R
. vol. 5, 220–21; Bierce,
Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
, 5; Ben May to his brother, December 2, 1861; “Cincinnati ‘Times’ Narrative,” Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 3, Documents, 166; “From Beverly,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, October 10, 1861.

543. “Special Order No. 15, Army of the Northwest,”
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, October 8, 1861;
O. R
. vol. 5, 224–31, 236; Clark,
Under the Stars and Bars
, 32.

544. “From the First Georgia Regiment—The Battle of the Greenbrier,”
Augusta Daily Chronicle and Sentinel
, October 11, 1861; Price,
History of Pocahontas County
, 445.

545. Commeti and Summers,
The Thirty-Fifth State
, 365; Hall,
Rending
, 384–86.

546. Ibid., 387–88; Moore,
Banner
, 134–35; “The Virginia ‘Division’ Election,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, October 31, 1861; Arnold, “Beverly in the Sixties, 72–73. A total of 273 affirmative votes for the statehood referendum were cast by members of the Third (U.S.) Virginia Infantry, polled in camp at Beverly.

547. Moore, “A Confederate Journal,” 207–08; Joseph Snider Diary, October 18, 1861, WVU; Worsham,
One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry
, 20–21.

548.
O. R
. vol. 5, 616, 644; Pool,
Under Canvas
, 56–57.

549. “From Greenbrier River,”
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, October 30, 1861; “From Western Virginia,”
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
, November 22, 1861;
O. R
. vol. 5, 290–91, 338, 378–80, 625, 644.

550. Sears,
Civil War Papers of George McClellan
, 112; Sears,
George B. McClellan
, 118, 134; Moore,
Rebellion Record
, vol. 3, Diary, 85;
Harper's Weekly
, December 7, 1861.

551. Sears,
George B. McClellan
, 118; Sears,
Civil War Papers of George McClellan
, 81, 87, 103, 112.

552.
O. R
. vol. 51, pt. 1, 491–93; “General Scott Retires from Active Service,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, November 2, 1861;
O. R
. vol. 5, 639.

553. Hay,
Lincoln and the Civil War
, 32–33.

554. Sears,
Civil War Papers of George McClellan
, 106, 113–14, 135–36.

555. Ibid., 112, 114, 122–24;
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, November 9, 1861.

556. Hannaford,
The Story of a Regiment
, 145; Beatty,
The Citizen-Soldier
, 80; “From Beverly,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, October 22, 1861.

557. “From Cheat Mountain,”
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, September 16, 1861; Ben May to his brother, November 22, 1861, PC; Hall,
Diary of a Confederate Soldier
, 31–32; Adams,
A Post of Honor
, 103, 107.

558. Diary of Co. A, 32nd Ohio Infantry, 14, Jacob Pinock Papers, WVU; Worsham,
One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry
, 21–22; Bierce,
Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
, 6. A large black bear, trapped by a soldier on Cheat Mountain, was transported alive and put on display in Wheeling!
See also “
A Big Black Bear,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, November 29, 1861.

559. Beatty,
The Citizen-Soldier
, 69–70; William Houghton to his father, November 2, 1861, Houghton Papers, IHS; Hall,
Diary of a Confederate Soldier
, 25.

560. Adams,
A Post of Honor
, 107, 117; Beatty,
The Citizen-Soldier
, 78, 80–81; Pool,
Under Canvas
, 54–55.

561. Narrative, 37, Robert H. Milroy Papers, IHS; Alf. Welton Diary, October 21, 1861, LC; “Extracts from a Letter Written Home,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, October 30, 1861.

562. Ben May to his brother, December 12, 1861, PC; Boston
Advertiser
in
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
, October 11, 1861.

563. Augustus Van Dyke to his father, August 29, 1861, Van Dyke Letters, IHS; James Atkins Diary, December 4, 1861, GDAH.

564. “Letter from the Fourteenth,”
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, November 25, 1861; “Our Army in Western Virginia,” Kirkpatrick Family Scrapbook, ISL.

565. “Letter from Cheat Mountain,”
Cincinnati Daily Commercial
, October 3, 1861; “The Situation in Western Virginia,”
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, October 12, 1861; “Blankets for the Oglethorpe Infantry,”
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
, October 12, 1861.

566. “The War in Virginia,”
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
, October 30, 1861; J.W. Ross to his wife, September 15, 1861, PC; Augustus Van Dyke to his father, August 29, 1861, Van Dyke Letters, IHS.

567. “From Camp Bartow,”
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, November 13, 1861; “From Cheat Mountain,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, October 22, 1861; Parson Parker, “Sufferings of the Twelfth Georgia Reg't, in the Mountains of Virginia,” WVSA; “The Fourteenth Georgia Regiment,”
Augusta Daily Constitutionalist
, November 15, 1861.

568. William Houghton Diary, November 8, 1861, Houghton Papers, IHS: Adams,
A Post of Honor
, 99; Ben May to his brother, October 5, 1861, PC.

569. Hannaford,
The Story of a Regiment
, 142; Pool,
Under Canvas
, 57–58; Adams,
The Pryor Letters
, 64, 111; Beatty,
The Citizen-Soldier
, 82; “Our Cheat Mountain Correspondence,”
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, October 9, 1861.

570. “A Bad Egg for a Sutler,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, October 25, 1861; Ben May to his brother, December 12, 1861, PC; Joseph Snider Diary, October 30, 1861, Snider Papers, WVU; Hall,
Diary of a Confederate Soldier
, 35–36.

571. Hermann,
Memoirs of a Veteran
, 54–55; Clark,
Under the Stars and Bars
, 37; James Atkins Diary, November 17, 1861, GDAH.

572. Ben May to his brother, November 22, 1861, PC; Hays,
History of the Thirty-second Regiment
, 15; “Report of Rev. Gordon Battelle,”
Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
, November 18, 1861; Bierce,
Ambrose Bierce's Civil War
, 6 ; Diary of Co. A, 32nd Ohio Infantry, 13, Jacob Pinock Papers, WVU; Hermann,
Memoirs of a Veteran
, 55; “From Beverly,”
Wheeling Daily
Intelligencer
, November 6, 1861; Augustus Van Dyke to his father, October 26, 1861, Van Dyke Papers, IHS.

573. Skidmore,
The Civil War Journal of Billy Davis
, 80; “The Fourteenth Georgia Regiment,”
Augusta Daily Constitutionalist
, November 15, 1861; “Letter from Western Virginia,”
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, November 8, 1861; “Letter from the Fourteenth,”
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, November 25, 1861.

574.
O.R
. vol. 5, 900, 943; “From Jackson's Brigade,”
Augusta Daily Constitutionalist
, October 2, 1861; “The Fourteenth Georgia Regiment,”
Augusta Daily Constitutionalist
, November 15, 1861; Tucker Randolph Diary, October 25, 1861, MC.

575.
O. R
. vol. 5, 909, 913, 933, 937–40, 965–66, 968–69. Confederate authorities created the Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia, on October 22, 1861. This new district embraced “the section of country between the Blue Ridge and the Alleghany Mountains.”

576.
O. R
. vol. 51, pt. 2, 382–83; James Atkins Diary, November 22, 1861, GDAH; “From the Alleghany Mountains,”
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, November 30, 1861; Irby Scott to his father, November 26, 1861, Irby Scott letters, DU; “From the 12th Georgia Regiment,”
Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel
, December 17, 1861.

577.
O. R
. vol. 51, pt. 2, 388;
O. R
. vol. 5, 460, 968, 975; Adams,
A Post of Honor
, 117.

578.
O. R
. vol. 5, 644, 669–71, 691; Hannaford,
The Story of a Regiment
, 157; Merrill,
The Soldier of Indiana
, 97; Letter to the
Indianapolis Daily Journal
, December 10, 1861.

579. James Atkins Diary, December 11, 1861, GDAH; Price, “Guerrilla Warfare,” 248. Camp Allegheny, often spelled “Alleghany,” was also known as “Camp Baldwin” in honor of John B. Baldwin, colonel of the Fifty-second Virginia Infantry and a respected state politician.

580. Gen. Orders No. 17, Army of N.W., December 10, 1861, Edward Willis Papers, HL;
O. R
. vol. 5, 989–90.

581. “War Recollections,” Evelyn Yeager Beard,
The Pocahontas Times
, November 25, 1926; Bierce,
Battlefields and Ghosts
, 16; “The Army of the Northwest,”
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, September 7, 1861.

582. Keifer,
Slavery and Four Years
, vol. 1, 311, 316; Boatner,
Civil War Dictionary
, 552; Reader,
History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry
, 159.

583. Merrill,
The Soldier of Indiana
, 95.

584. Stevenson,
Indiana's Roll of Honor
, 194–95;
O. R
. vol. 5, 461; Thomas Prickett to Matilda, December 9, 1861, Prickett Papers, IHS; “History of Valley Furnace,”
The Barbour Democrat
, September 4, 1968; Poe,
Personal Reminiscences
, 11. The five Confederate deserters, all members of Hansbrough's Ninth Battalion, Virginia Infantry, were said to be Jeff Glenn, Doc Rogers, Wm. Lynn, Eugene Murphy, and Andy Murphy.