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16.
O.R., Vol. XI, Part
Three, 68, 71-72; John G. Palfrey,
The Siege
of
Yorktown,
Papers
of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. I, 144-45; Barnard,
The
Peninsular Campaign,
20-22.

17.
O.R.,
Vol. XI, Part One, 272-74, 538-50; George B. McClellan,
Report
on the Organization and Campaigns
of
the Army
of
the Potomac,
159,
162-64.

18.
McDowell's
testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War; C.C.W. Reports, 1863,
Part I, 260-62.

19.
O.R.,
Vol.
XI,
Part
Three, 71, 74; Webb, op. cit., 60-62; Basler, Vol. V, 226; Prince de Joinville,
The Army
of
the Potomac,
47.

Chapter Five:
TURNING
POINT J.
The Signs
of
the Times

1. O.R., Vol. XI,
Part Three, 134-35.

2.
Livermore,
Numbers and Losses,
80-81,
puts Union casualties at 2239 out of an estimated 40,000 engaged, and says the
Confederates had an effective strength of 31,823 and losses of 1703.

3.
Letter
of Capt. Wilson Barstow to his sist*, Mrs. Richard Henry Stoddard, dated May
12, 1862, in the Wilson Barstow Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress; Assistant Secretary of War John Tucker to Secretary Stanton from
Fort Monroe, May 13, 1862, Stanton Papers, Library of Congress; O.R., Vol. XI,
Part Three, 160, 164.

4.
O.R.,
Vol. XI, Part Three, 145-46, 148-49.

5.
Basler,
Vol. V, 185.

6.
McClellan
to Mrs. McClellan dated May 8, 1862, McClellan Letterbook, Library of Congress.

7.
Letter
of Barlow to McClellan dated April 14,-1862; letter of Samuel Ward to Barlow,
marked on verso "Apl/62" but otherwise undated; letter of Barlow to
McClellan dated May 10, 1862; all in the Barlow Papers, Huntington Library.

8.
Letter
of Meagher to Barlow dated April 27, 1862, in the Barlow Papers.

9.
Letter
of August Belmont to Barlow dated April 27, 1862, in the Barlow Papers; letters
of Fitz John Porter to Manton Marble, one written probably in April 1862, the
other dated May 21, 1862, in the Manton Marble Papers, Library of Congress;
letter of Capt. Wilson Barstow to his sister dated May 20, 1862, in the Barstow
Papers, Library of Congress.

10. Letter of Benjamin Stark to Barlow
dated April 13, 1862, in
the Barlow Papers.

11. Basler, Vol. V,
222-23.

12. McClellan to Mrs. McClellan dated
May 23, 1862, in the
McClellan Letterbook.

13. O.R., Vol. XI,
Part Three, 153-54.

14. William M. Robinson,
Naval
Defense
of
Richmond,
in
Civil
War History, Vol. VH, No. Two, 167-75; N.O.R., Vol. VII,
356-71.

15.
O.R., Vol.
XI, Part Three, 150-51; Part One, 26-27.

16.
O.R., Vol.
XII, Part Three, 66.

17.
O.R., Vol.
XI, Part One, 27.

18. McClellan to Mrs.
McClellan dated May 18, 1862, in the
McClellan Letterbook.

2.

Do
It
Quickly

1. For Johnston's
proposal regarding an offensive, and Mr.
Davis's response, see O.R., Vol. XI, Part Three, 477, 485.

2. Freeman,
R.
E. Lee,
Vol. II, 4-6.

3. Basler, Vol. V, 182; O.R., Vol. XII,
Part Three, 865-66, 872;
G. F. R. Henderson,
Stonewall Jackson and
the American Civil
War,
223.

4. O.R., Vol. XI, Part Three, 477.

5. Toombs to Stephens dated May 17,
1862, in
The Corre-
spondence
of
Robert Toombs, Alexander
Stephens and Howell
Cobb,
Annual Report of the American Historical
Association for
1911, Vol. II, 594-96.

6. O.R., Vol.
XH, Part Three, 142, 149-50, 152.

7.
Lee
to Jackson, May 6, 1862, in the Headquarters Telegraph Book, Lee Headquarters
Papers, Virginia State Historical Society.

8.
O.R.,
Vol. XII, Part One, 462-65, 470, 472-73. According to Gen. Schenck, who says
the battle was a delaying action to cover a retreat, the Federal force actually
engaged was 2268. Jed Hotchkiss,
Virginia,
in
Confederate Military History, Vol. HI, 232, says about 4500 Confederates got
into action.

9.
Edwin
E. Marvin,
The
Fifth
Regiment Connecticut Volunteers,
97;
Milo M. Quaife, ed.,
From the Cannon's
Mouth: the Civil War Letters
of
General Alpheus Williams,
73-74;
O.R., Vol. XII, Part Three, 154; Part One, 524-25.

10.
Col.
John M. Patton,
Reminiscences
of
Jackson's Infantry,
Southern
Historical Society Papers, Vol. VIII, No. Three, 140-41; Jed Hotchkiss, in
Confederate
Military History,
Vol. HI, 232-40.

11.
Mary
Anna Jackson,
Life
and Letters
of
General Thomas
J.
Jackson,
261-62.
General Alpheus Williams (Quaife, op. cit., 78-87) gives a graphic account of
the Federal retreat.

12.
B.
T. Johnson,
Memoirs
of
the First Maryland Regiment,
99-100.

13. O.R., Vol. XII,
Part Three, 219-21; Basler, Vol. V, 235-36.

14. James
F. Huntington,
Operations in the
Shenandoah Valley,
321-22.

3.
The Last Struggle

1.

O.R.,
Series Three, Vol. II, 44, 70, 109; Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
196. Actually, the War Department
telegraphed the Northern governors on May 19, several days before Jackson's
spectacular victories in the Front Royal-Winchester area, warning that additional
volunteer regiments would be wanted and asking how long it would take the
governors to raise and organize them.

2.

Jed
Hotchkiss in Confederate Military History, Vol. Ill, 247-52; Huntington,
Operations
in the Shenandoah Valley,
322-26.
For Lincoln's orders during this period see Basler, Vol. V., 230-36, 243,
247-51.

3.

O.R.,
Vol. XI, Part One, 32, 33, 35, 37; Fitz John Porter,
Hanover
Court House and Gaines's Mill,
B. &
L., Vol. II, 319. McClellan's statement of May 25, that his troops north of the
Chickahominy were ready to cross as soon as the bridges were completed,
disposes of his later argument that he was compelled to hold them there in
order to extend a welcome to McDowell.

4.

Typescript
of letters of C. I. Walker to Miss Ada Oriana Sinclair, dated April 26 and May
10, 1862, in the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.

5.

Halleck
seems to have had reservations about Grant from the beginning, and after Fort
Donelson he criticized him so sharply that Grant asked to be relieved of his
command; the situation was smoothed out only after Washington intervened in
Grant's favor. Details are set forth in this writer's
Grant
Moves South,
186-208.

6.

Alfred
Roman,
Military Operations
of
General Beauregard,
Vol.
I, 383-90; O.R., Vol. X, Part One, 668-69.

7.

After
the war Pope tried in vain to get Halleck to set the record straight. His
indignant correspondence with Halleck is in O.R., Vol. X, Part Two, 635-36. For
his original report, see Part One of that volume, 249.

8.

Stanley
Horn,
The Army
of
Tennessee,
153-54;
O.R., Vol. X, Part One, 775-79.

9.

Letter
of July 12, 1862, signed "G. T. Buenavista," a code name sometimes
used by Beauregard in writing to Gen. Jordan; in the Beauregard Papers,
Manuscript Department, Duke University Library.

10.
Letter
of Sumner to R. H. Dana dated May 26, 1862, in the Dana Papers, Massachusetts
Historical Society.

11.
Correspondence
of the Cincinnati
Commercial,
reprinted
in Moore's
Rebellion Record,
Vol.
V, Documents, 88; Drury L. Armi
stead,
The
Battle in which General Johnston Was Wounded,
Southern
Historical Society Papers, Vol. VIII, 186; Francis W. Palfrey,
After
the Fall
of
Yorktown,
Papers
of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Vol. I, 176.

12.
Davis,
Rise
and Fall,
Vol. II, 119-20;
Johnston,
Narrative
of
Military
Operations,
131-32; Steele,
American
Campaigns,
Vol.
I,
97-98,
104; John B. Gordon,
Reminiscences
of
the Civil War,
57;
Alexander S. Webb,
The Peninsula,
97-117;
Palfrey,
After the Fall
of
Yorktown,
174-205;
J. G. Barnard,
The Peninsular
Campaign,
28-29. In
Lee's
Lieutenants
(Vol. I, 225-63)
Freeman examines the botched Confederate attack in detail and concludes that
most of the blame must go to General Longstreet. E. P. Alexander,
Military
Memoirs
of
a Confederate,
79,
93, remarks that Johnston seemed utterly incapable of handling the army in
battle.

13.
The
figures are from O.R., Vol. XI, Part One, 762, and Livermore,
Numbers
and Losses,
81.

4.
Railroad to the Pamunkey

1. General Orders No.
13, issued by D. H. Hill on June 26, 1862,
original in the Eldredge Collection, Huntington Library; letter of
Ed. M. Burrus dated June 14, in the John C. Burrus and Family
Papers, George Lester Collection, Department of Archives, Louisi-
ana State University; postwar letter of Longstreet to Jefferson
Davis in Dunbar Rowland, Vol. IX, 594-95.

2. Davis to Mrs. Davis, June 11, 1862, in
Rowland, Vol. V, 272.

3.
Letter
of Jackson to Lee from Mount Meridian, June 13, 1862, bearing Lee's note and
Davis's endorsement; in the R. E. Lee Papers, Manuscript Department, Duke
University Library.

4.
An
excellent account of Stuart's ride is in H. B. McClellan,
/
Rode with Jeb Stuart,
52 ff. For a good
appraisal of what the raid accomplished see John W. Thomason, Jr.,
Jeb
Stuart,
153-55.