Terrible Swift Sword (76 page)

6.
Diaries
of Marsena Patrick, Vol. I, entry for March 6, 1862, in the Library of
Congress.

7. John Hay,
Lincoln
and the Civil War,
36.

8. Basler, Vol. V, 149-51, for the text
of the two war orders.
It is significant that none of the new corps commanders was a Mc-
Clellan man. McDowell had preceded him in command of the
Army of the Potomac, and distrusted him; General Marsena
Patrick wrote at this time that in a long talk with McDowell he
found that McDowell "believes McClellan to be very insincere."

(Patrick Diaries, entry for Feb. 28,
1862, Library of Congress.) Heintzelman was a stiff old regular who had fought
at Bull Run, and Sumner was even older and stiffer. He had a long service
record in the Mexican War and in various frontier posts in the West. Keyes had
been Winfleld Scott's military secretary, and Wadsworth was a political general
in whom McClellan had little confidence. For McClellan's attempts to get
Stanton to suspend the order on corps commanders, see O.R., Vol. V, 739,
740—41.

9.      Johnston's
Narrative,
96-97,
101-6; Jubal Early,
Auto-
biographical Sketch and Narrative
of
the War between the States,
53-55; O.R., Vol. V, 1086; Lieut Col. W. W.
Blackford,
War
Years with Jeb Stuart,
59-60; Dunbar
Rowland, Vol. VI, 494.

10.
Prince de Joinville,
The
Army
of
the Potomac; Its Organization,
Its Commander and Its Campaign,
24.

11.
Comte de
Paris,
History
of
the Civil War in America,
Vol.
I, 614; Moore's
Rebellion Record,
Vol.
IV, Documents, 284-85, quoting a story in the Philadelphia
Inquirer;
notebook containing diary notes and letters
of Rufus Dawes, in the Rufus Dawes Papers, courtesy of Rufus D. Beach of
Evanston,
111.,
and Ralph Newman of
Chicago.

12.
Basler,
Vol. V, 155.

13.
Ibid.,
157-58.

14.
McClellan's
Own Story,
225.
In his copy of McClellan's book, now in the Oberlin College Library,
McClellan's former subordinate in western Virginia, Gen. Jacob Cox, scribbled
the marginal comment: "The hollowest of stuff!"

15.
Letter of McClellan
to Barlow dated at Washington March 16, 1862, in the Barlow Papers, Huntington
Library.

16.
Congressional
Globe,
37th Congress, Second Session, Part IV,
appendix, 14.

17.
Barlow to
Stanton, Dec. 11, 1861, in the Barlow Papers, Huntington Library.

18.       
Diary
of
Edward Bates,
239,
241.

Chapter Four:
STRIDE
OF A GIANT J.  
The Ironclads

1. Thomas O.
Selfridge, Jr.,
Memoirs,
44-45;
H. Ashton Ramsay,
The Monitor and the
Merrimac,
33; Recollections of
the sinking of the
Cumberland,
in
Mss. log of Charles William Bishop, Historical

Manuscripts Division, Yale University
Library; Indianapolis
Sunday Star
for
March 20, 1929, printing letter of William Reeder of Company A, 20th Indiana
Infantry, describing the sinking of the
Cumberland.

2.
Capt.
Catesby ap R. Jones,
Services
of
the Virginia,
Southern
Historical Society Papers, Vol. XI, 65-67; letter of J. L. Porter, constructor,
reprinted in the Charleston
Courier
for
March 19, 1862, from an earlier issue of the Petersburg
Express;
S. B. Besse, C.S.
Ironclad
Virginia, with Data and References
for
a Scale Model,
10-13.

3.
D.A.B.,
Vol. Ill, 206; Charles Lee Lewis,
Admiral
Franklin Buchanan,
184-85; Catesby ap R.
Jones, loc. cit.; letter of Buchanan to Mallory dated March 19, 1862, in the Franklin
Buchanan Letter Book, Southern Historical Collection, University of North
Carolina.

4.
Testimony
of Gustavus V. Fox in C.C.W. Reports, 1863, Part III, 415; Thomas W. Self
ridge, Jr.,
The Story
of
the Cumberland,
Papers
of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. XII, 118-20; Mss. log
of Charles William Bishop, Yale University Library.

5.
Log
of Charles William Bishop; Selfridge, op. cit., 123-25; Jones,
Services
of
the Virginia,
68-69.

6.
H.
Ashton Ramsay, op. cit., 34-40; report of Franklin Buchanan, N.O.R., Vol. VII,
41, 44-49; Israel N. Stiles;
The
Merri-mac and the Monitor,
in
Military
Essays and Recollections,
Vol. I,
128.

7.
Joseph
T. Durkin,
Stephen R. Mallory,
150;
N.O.R., Series Two, Vol. I, 743; John Ericsson,
The
Building
of
the Monitor,
B.
& L., Vol. I, 730 ff.; S. B. Besse, U.S.
Ironclad
Monitor, with Data and References for a Scale Model,
Mariners'
Museum, Newport News, Va.

8.
E.
B. Potter,
The United States and
World Sea Power,
325-27; Lieut. S. D.
Greene,
In
the Monitor Turret,
B. & L., Vol. I.
719 ff.; Ramsay, op. cit., 51-52; N.O.R., Vol. VII, 11, 25; letter of Harry van
Brunt, son of Captain Van Brunt, in the Papers of the Massachusetts
Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Houghton
Library, Harvard.

9.
N.O.R.,
Vol. VII, 27, 78, 100; Frank M. Bennett,
The
Steam
Navy
of
the United States,
Vol. I,
307; letter of Lieut. Greene dated March 14, 1862, in the Dana Papers,
Massachusetts Historical Society.

2.  
The Vulture and the
Wolf

1.
Letter
of Braxton Bragg to Mrs. Bragg dated March 20, 1862, in the Manuscript
Department, Duke University Library. His reference to the evils of universal
suffrage is in O.R., Vol. X, Part One, 464.

2.
Letter
of Mrs. Bragg dated March 12, 1862, in the Eugene
C.
Barker
Texas History Center, University of Texas.

3. O. R., Vol. X, Part One, 463.

4.
Walter
Lee Brown, "Pea Ridge: Gettysburg of the West,"
Arkansas
Historical Quarterly,
Vol. XV, No. One,
3-5; William Preston Johnston, 523; O.R., Vol. VIII, 750-52; Gen. D. H. Maury,
Recollections
of
the Elkhorn Campaign,
Southern
Historical Society Papers, Vol. H, No. Four, 180-85; letter of Jefferson Davis
to Victor Rose dated Oct. 23, 1883, in the Lawrence Sullivan Ross Letters, the
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.

5.
O.R.,
Vol. VIII, 755; Wiley Britton,
Union and
Confederate Indians in the Civil War,
B. &
L., Vol. I, 335-36.

6.
Letter
of Gen. Curtis to his brother dated Feb. 25, 1862, in the Samuel Ryan Curtis
Letters, Huntington Library; O.R., Vol. VIII, 502, 503; D.A.B., Vol. IV,
619-20; Edward A. Blodgett, "The Army of the Southwest and the Battle of
Pea Ridge,"
Military Essays and
Recollections,
Vol. II, 298-99.
There is a good account of the army's march by Samuel Prentis Curtis, the general's
son and aide, "The Army of the Southwest on the First Campaign in
Arkansas," in
The Annals
of
Iowa,
Vol.
IV to Vol. VI.

7.
Blodgett,
op. cit., 301-9; Gen. Franz Sigel,
The Pea
Ridge Campaign,
B. & L., Vol. I,
314-34; John W. Noble,
Battle
of
Pea Ridge or Elkhorn Tavern,
in
War Papers of the Missouri Com-mandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, Vol. I, 224-42; O.R., Vol. VHI, 206, 285.

8.
Letter
of Gen. Curtis dated March 13, 1862, in the Samuel Ryan Curtis Papers,
Huntington Library.

9.
O.R.,
Vol. X, Part Two, 354, 365, 370-71; William Preston Johnston, 584, 552-53. For
an excellent study of Johnston's plans and achievements in the six weeks before
Shiloh see Charles P. Roland,
Albert
Sidney Johnston and the Shiloh Campaign,
Civil
War History, Dec, 1958.

10. William Preston
Johnston, 551.

3.  
Pittsburg Landing

1.
The
circumstances surrounding Beauregard's drafting of the plan of attack are
discussed in Roland, op. cit., and in Thomas Jordan,
Recollections
of
General Beauregard's Service in
West Tennessee in the Spring
of
1862,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol.
VIII, August and September, 1880, 404-17. Stanley Horn,
The
Army
of
Tennessee,
104
ff.; T. Harry Williams.
Beauregard:
Napoleon in Gray,
113 ff.; G. T.
Beauregard,
The Campaign
of
Shiloh,
B.
& L., Vol. I, 579-81. A telegram from Johnston to President Davis
announcing a corps formation unlike the one actually used is in William Preston
Johnston, 554.

2.
Jordan,
op. cit., 410-11, 414; William Preston Johnston, 561, 568-71; Dunbar Rowland,
Vol. V, 227.

3.
The
attitude is well illustrated by Grant's dispatch to Halleck dated March 21 in
O.R., Vol. X, Part Two, 55.

4.
Ibid.,
93-94; Joseph W. Rich,
The Battle
of
Shiloh,
40-41;
Ephraim C. Dawes,
The Battle
of
Shiloh,
Papers
of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. VII, 115-16.

5.
John
G. Biel, ed.,
The Battle
of
Shiloh from the Letters and Diary
of
Joseph Dimmit Thompson,
Tennessee
Historical Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. Three, 255-56.

6.
Beauregard's
report on Shiloh, O.R., Vol. X, Part One, 386; Lloyd Lewis,
Sherman,
Fighting Prophet,
232.

7.
Diary
of A. H. Mecklin, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson; William
Preston Johnston, 569; A. D. Kir-wan, ed.,
Johnny
Green
of
the Orphan Brigade: the
Journal
of
a
Confederate Soldier,
25.