Terrible Swift Sword (75 page)
3.
O.R.,
Vol. VII, 429-31; William Preston Johnston, 496.
4.
Letter
of Foote to Gideon Welles dated Nov. 13, 1862, summarizing his operations in
the campaign, in the Welles Papers, Huntington Library; Hoppin,
Life
of
Admiral Foote,
236-38;
Halleck to Grant, Feb. 18, and to Stanton, Feb. 21, O.R., Vol. VII, 633, 655;
Buell to Halleck, Feb. 21, ibid., 650.
5.
Letter
of Stanton to the New York
Tribune,
as
revised, dated Feb. 19, 1862, in the Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
6.
David
Davis, who was investigating army supply and procurement problems, wrote at
this time: "Nobody thinks much of Grant. He is in luck, however."
(Letter to Leonard Swett dated Feb. 23, 1862, in the David Davis Papers,
Illinois State Historical Library.) The sequence in which Halleck tried to put
Hitchcock over Grant, and complained about Grant's alleged misconduct, is
detailed in this writer's
Grant
Moves South,
193-97.
7.
Apparently
it is impossible to get a satisfactory figure for the number of prisoners taken
at Fort Donelson. Grant strangely enough seems not to have counted them, and
estimates range all the way from 8000 to 15,000. John Allan Wyeth made a
careful analysis in
That Devil Forrest,
55.
He believed that there were about 15,000 Confederates in Fort Donelson when the
battle began, that 400 were killed, 1134 wounded and sent away, and 3000 taken
out by Floyd, Pillow, and Forrest. This would make a total of 4534 "not
captured" and the number of prisoners would stand at slightly more than
10,000. The Fort Donelson National Military Park pamphlet suggests a figure
somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000.
8. Johnston to Davis, March 18, 1862,
in O.R., Vol. VH, 260.
9. Ibid., 672, 899-900; letter of
Beauregard to Roger Pryor
dated at Nashville Feb. 14, in the P. G. T. Beauregard Papers,
Duke University Library.
10.
Letter of
Stanton to Assistant Secretary of War Scott dated Feb. 21, 1862, in the Stanton
Papers.
11.
John S.
Wise,
The End
of
an Era,
175-78;
O.R., Vol. LX, 111, 114.
12.
Bumside's
Testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War (C.C.W. Report, Part
HI, 1863; 333-34, 337; McClellan's
Report on
the Organization and Campaigns
of
the
Army
of
the Potomac,
85-86;
Comte de Paris,
History
of
the Civil War in America,
Vol.
I, 581-82).
13.
Comte de
Paris, op. cit., 583-85; D. H. Hill, Jr., in
Confederate
Military History,
Vol. IV,
North
Carolina,
34-37; Wise,
The
End
of
an Era,
179-81;
O.R., Vol. LX, 76.
14. O.R., Vol. LX, 112, 121, 190.
4.
Time
for
Compulsion
1.
Diary
of Thomas Bragg, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina,
entry for Feb. 22, 1862; diary of Henry Robinson Berkeley, in the Virginia
State Historical Society, entry for the same date.
2.
J.
William Jones,
Christ in the Camp,
or Religion in the Confederate Army,
148;
Varina Davis,
Jefferson Davis, a
Memoir,
Vol. U, 180, 182-83.
3.
Dunbar
Rowland,
Jefferson Davis,
Constitutionalist,
Vol. V, 198-202.
4.
Diary
of Henry Robinson Berkeley, as cited in Footnote 1, above; John B. Jones,
A
Rebel
War
Clerk's Diary,
edited
by Earl Schenck Miers, 67-68; Richard Malcolm Johnston and William Hand Browne,
Life
of
Alexander Stephens,
413.
5.
Diary
of Thomas Bragg, entries for Feb. 10, Feb. 19, and Feb. 20, 1862.
6.
Dunbar
Rowland, Vol. V, 203-5; Robert Garlick Kean,
Inside
the Confederate Government,
edited by
Edward Younger, 24-26; O.R., Vol. V, 1015, 1086.
7.
Joseph
E. Johnston,
Narrative
of
Military Operations,
89-91;
O.R., Vol. V, 1057-58; Freeman,
Lee's
Lieutenants,
Vol. I, 122-30.
8.
Johnston's
meetings with Mr. Davis and the Cabinet are described in Thomas Bragg's Diary,
entries for Feb. 19 and Feb. 20.
9.
Joseph
E. Johnston, op. cit., 96; O.R., Vol. V, 1097, 1083; Davis to James Phelan
dated March 1, 1865, in Dunbar Rowland, Vol. VI, 493-94.
10. Johnston's
Narrative,
97.
11. Editorial from the Washington (Ark.)
Telegraph
for
Feb.
26, 1862, in the files of the Arkansas History Commission.
12. Dunbar Rowland, Vol. VI, 216-18.
13.
Journal
of
the Congress
of
the Confederate States
of
America, 1861-1865,
Vol. II,
37, 72-74; H. S. Foote,
The
War
of
the Rebellion,
356; O.R.,
Vol. V, 1099; Diary of Thomas
Bragg, entry for March 17, 1862; letter of General Lee to Mrs.
Lee dated March 14, in the R. E. Lee Papers, Library of Con-
gress;
The Correspondence
of
Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens
and Howell Cobb,
Annual Report of the
American Historical
Association for the Year 1911, Vol. II, 590.
14.
O.R.,
Series Four, Vol. I, 986.
15.
James D.
Richardson,
Messages and Papers
of
the Confederacy,
Vol.
I, 205-6; O. R., Series Four, Vol. I, 1081, 1095-97.
16. O.R., Series Four, Vol.
I,
1116-17,
1138; Johnston and
Browne,
Life
of
Alexander
H.
Stephens,
414; O.R.,
Series Four,
Vol. II, 43.
17. Dunbar Rowland,
Vol. V, 209.
5.
Contending With
Shadows
1.
Basler,
Vol. V, 144-^6.
2.
Ibid.,
152-53, 160-61.
3.
Edward
McPherson,
The Political History
of
the United States
of
America During the Great Rebellion,
210-11,
quoting from a memorandum written by one of the participants in the conference,
J. W. Crisfield of Maryland.
4.
Congressional
Globe,
37th Congress, Second Session, Part II,
1154; Part IV, appendix, 412-13. Shortly after they approved the plan for
compensated emancipation, the two Houses of Congress voted to emancipate the
slaves in the District of Columbia. Signing the act on April 16, Mr. Lincoln
said he was gratified that "the two principles of compensation, and
colonization, are both recognized and practically applied" in this act
(Basler, Vol. V, 192.)
5.
Letter
of McClellan to S. L. M. Barlow dated Nov.
8,
1861, in the Barlow
Papers, Huntington Library.
6.
Russell,
My
Diary North and South,
210; C.C.W. Reports,
1863, Part
I,
129-30.
7. Basler, Vol. V, 88.
8.
Russell,
My
Diary North and South,
208;
Harper's
Weekly
for Nov. 9, 1861;
Congressional
Globe,
37th Congress, Second Session, Part II,
1662; Richard B. Irwin,
Ball's
Bluff and the Arrest
of
General
Stone,
B. & L., Vol. U, 132-33.
9.
Testimony
given by Stone in February, 1863, in C.C.W. Reports, 1863, Part II, 489.
10.
James G.
Blaine,
Twenty Years
of
Congress,
Vol.
I,
393; Irwin, op. cit., 132; O.R., Vol. LI,
Part One, 517.
11.
C.C.W. Reports, 1863,
Part
11,
295 et seq. For a review of
the committee's attitude and methods of operation see T. Harry Williams,
Investigation:
1862,
American Heritage, Vol. VI, No. One,
19-20.
12.
C.C.W. Reports, 1863,
Part H, 427-29.
13.
Edward
Bates' Diary, 229, entry for Feb. 3, 1862.
14.
C.C.W. Reports, 1863,
Part II, 510; O.R., Vol. V, 341, 345.
15.
C.C.W.
Reports, 1863, Part II, 505-9. The messages exchanged by McClellan and Stone
on Oct. 21, 1861, the day of the battle, give the story a slightly different
cast than the one given in McClellan's testimony before the committee. Informed
that Stone's troops had crossed at Ball's Bluff and Edwards Ferry, McClellan
wrote: "I congratulate your command"; a little later he asked Stone
how big a force would be needed to take Lees-burg, adding, "I may require
you to take it today" and saying that he could support such a move
"on the other side of the river from Darnestown." Later in the day McClellan
sent the order, "Take Leesburg," after which he ordered Stone:
"Hold your position on the Virginia side of the Potomac at all
hazards." (O.R., Vol. LI, Part One, 498-500.)
6.
Forward to Richmond
1.
Diary
of Gilbert Thompson, U. S. Engineer Battalion, Army of the Potomac, entry for
Feb. 27, 1862, in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
2.
McClellan,
Report on the Organization and Campaigns
of
the Army
of
the Potomac,
113-15; J.
W. Shuckers,
The
Life
and Public Services
of
Salmon Portland Chase,
446;
O.R., Vol. V, 727-28, 730.
3.
Helen
Nicolay,
Lincoln's Secretary:
a Biography
of
John G. Nicolay,
142-43.
4.
McClellan
wrote to Barlow that the Harper's Ferry move led Johnston to evacuate his
Centreville-Manassas line, and felt that history "will, when I am in my
grave, record it as the brightest passage of my life that I accomplished so
much at so small a cost." (Letter dated March 16, 1862, in the Barlow
Papers, Huntington Library.)
5.
The
cabinet meeting on March 6, at which the use of the new iron-clad was
discussed, is from a memorandum by John G. Nicolay in Nicolay & Hay, Vol.
V, 221-22. McClellan tells of his interview with Lincoln in his
Own
Story,
195-96.