A Stillness at Appomattox (197 page)
- Manuscript letters of Sebastian Muller, Library of Congress.
- Reminiscences of the 19th Massachusetts Regiment,
p, 105.
I
know star-rise
1.
Burnside's testimony at the Court of Inquiry on the
Petersburg Mine,
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 60;
the three white divisions in the IX Corps lost 1,150 men
between June 20 and July 20, and on the latter date mustered
9,023 enlisted men for duty. See also
Major General Ambrose
E.
Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps,
by Augustus Wood-
bury, pp. 420-21.
2.
Manuscript letters of Henry Clay Heisler.
- The Story of the 48th,
p. 160;
The Tragedy of the Crater,
by Henry Pleasants, Jr., p. 35. - The Tragedy of the Crater,
p. 32;
The 48th in the War,
by Oliver Christian Bosbyshell, pp. 163-65.
5.
The Tragedy of the Crater,
pp. 34-37.
6.
Report of Major Nathaniel Michler, Corps of Engi-
neers,
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 291.
7.
The Tragedy of the Crater,
p. 41;
Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 545;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 45; Part 2, p. 619.
- Manuscript letters of Henry Clay Heisler;
The 48th in the War,
pp. 167-68;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 556-58; Part 2, pp. 396-97, 417;
The Tragedy of the Crater,
p. 38. - The Tragedy of the Crater,
pp. 44-45; Colonel Pleas-ants' report,
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 558.
- Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 557-58. Cross sections, diagrams, and general plans of the mine shaft, magazines, and ventilating shaft can be found in that volume, pp. 559-63, and in
Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 548. - History of the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,
p. 228;
Grant's Personal Memoirs,
Vol. II, p. 314;
The Long Arm of Lee,
Vol. II, p. 846.
12.
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 557.
13.
Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth
Army Corps,
p. 430;
Meade's Headquarters,
p. 201.
14.
Official Records,
Series III, Vol. V, p. 669.
- Papers of the Kansas Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
p. 11. - This point is made in
A History of Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion,
by George W. Williams, p. 170.
17.
Ibid.,
pp. 235-36.
- Army Life in a Black Regiment,
p. 36—one of the most fascinating books, incidentally, in Civil War literature. - Ibid.,
p. 74;
The Negro in the Late War,
by Captain George E. Sutherland;
War Papers, Wisconsin Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
Vol. I, p. 183.
- Army Life in a Black Regiment,
p. 274. - Three Years in the Sixth Corps,
pp. 275-76.
22.
Shot and Shell: the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery
Regiment in the Rebellion,
by the Rev. Frederic Denison, pp.
214, 229; manuscript letters of Henry Clay Heisler;
Service
with the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers,
p. 296;
Army Life in a
Black Regiment,
p. 3L
23.
Manuscript letters of Lewis Bissell;
A Woman's War
Record,
p. 56.
24.
Ten Years in the U. S. Army,
p. 327.
25.
Memoirs of a Volunteer,
p. 231;
Musket and Sword,
p. 315;
Official Records,
Vol. XXXIII, p. 898.
26.
Army Life in a Black Regiment,
pp. 39, 71-72, 350.
- Ibid.,
pp. 14-15, 80;
The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union,
by William H. Chenery, p. 18. - Official Records,
Vol. XXXIH, p. 1020; Vol. XXXVII, Part 1, pp. 71-72;
A History of Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion,
p. 238.
29.
Army Life in a Black Regiment,
p. 335.
- Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps,
pp. 420-21;
M.H.S.M. Papers,
Vol. V., p. 216. - Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 563;
Papers of the Kansas Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
p. 16.
32.
Army Life in a Black Regiment,
p. 286,
like the noise of great thunders
1.
Humphreys, pp. 247-48; Grant's
Personal Memoirs,
Vol. II, p. 310;
History of the Second Army Corps,
p. 559.
- Letters of a War Correspondent,
p. 190. - The Long Arm of Lee,
Vol. II, p. 846.
- R. E. Lee,
Vol. Ill, p. 466;
History of the Second Army Corps,
pp. 565-66. - Meade's orders are in the
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 43-44. His testimony at the court of inquiry, pp. 44-58, tells how he overruled Burnside on the use of the colored troops, and how Grant upheld him. The plan of attack, as finally approved, is well outlined in
M.H.S.M. Papers,
Vol. V, p. 229. - Burnside's testimony at the court of inquiry tells about the drawing of lots;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 61. There is a full account of his meeting with the division commanders in
Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the "Ninth Army Corps,
pp. 432-34.
- Meade's Headquarters,
pp. 168, 199. It is interesting to note that during the fighting around Spotsylvania Court House, two and one-half months earlier, a IX Corps private was writing in his diary that "the regiment on our left, the 14th N. Y. Heavy Art., ran for life at the first fire, leaving our left flank entirely exposed." (Manuscript diary of Corporal S. O. Bryant, 20th Michigan Infantry.) This heavy artillery regiment was in the first assault wave at the Petersburg crater. - Brigadier General Stephen M. Weld,
M.H.S.M. Papers,
Vol. V, p. 218: "He was a drunkard and an arrant coward. In every fight we had been in under Ledlie he had been under the influence of liquor." See also the testimony of Surgeon H. E. Smith, 27th Michigan, at the court of inquiry;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 119. In his
Personal Memoirs
(Vol. II, p. 313), Grant remarked: "Ledlie, besides being otherwise inefficient, proved also to possess disqualification less common among soldiers." - History of the 51st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
p. 573;
History of the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,
p. 233;
Papers of the Kansas Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
pp. 16-17.
- Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 600, 609. - Ibid.,
p. 47. - Ibid.,
p. 557;
Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 551n.
- Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps,
p. 437;
History of the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,
pp. 234-35;
Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 564;
The Story of the 48th,
p. 230;
History of the 29th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,
pp. 312-13;
Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65,
p. 246;
M.H.S.M. Papers,
Vol. V, p. 246;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 323. - Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 324;
Letters of a War Correspondent,
p. 195;
The Diary of a Line Officer,
p. 102.
- Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 561;
The Story of the 48th,
p. 230; M.H.S.M.
Papers,
Vol. V,
p.
208;
Musket and Sword,
p. 293. - Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 562;
Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps,
p. 438$ M.H.S.M.
Papers,
Vol. V, p. 209;
The Story of the 48th,
p. 23L - Humphreys, p. 255. (General Humphreys declares flatly: "Had the division advanced in column of attack, led by a resolute, intelligent commander, it would have gained the crest in 15 minutes after the explosion, and before any serious opposition could have been made to it.")
- Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 78, 84, 92, 121-22, 701. - Humphreys, pp. 256-57;
Major General Ambrose
Eo
Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps,
pp. 439-40;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 280-81, 567, 574. There is a good account of the work done by the Confederate artillery in
The Long Arm of Lee,
Vol. H, pp. 865-75. - For testimony on this point, see
Official Records,
VoL XL, Part 1, p. 122.
21.
M.H.S.M. Papers,
Vol. V, pp. 214-15.
22.
Official Records, Vol
XL, Part 1, pp. 48, 55, 80-81,
142-43.
23.
Ibid.,
p. 119.
24.
Personal Experiences of a Staff Officer,
pp. 18-19,
31;
Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV, p. 564;
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, p. 104.
- Ibid.,
p. 105;
Battles and Leaders,
Vol. IV,
p„
565„ - M.H.S.M. Papers,
Vol. V, pp. 210-11.
- Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 49, 57, 144;
The Story of the 48th,
p. 239. - Report of Captain Theodore Gregg, 45th Pennsylvania, an unusually vivid picture of the situation in the crater,
Official Records,
Vol. XL, Part 1, pp. 554-56. See also
History of the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,
p.
238;
Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion,
p. 249.
- Manuscript letters of Henry Clay Heisler.
- Grant to Halleck,
Official Records,
VoL XL, Part 1, p„
17;
History of the 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,
p. 240; manuscript letters of Henry Clay Heisler. Accurately enough, this young private remarked that the trouble was due to "a mismanage by some of the Brigadier Generals in our corps."
31.
The Iron-Hearted Regiment,
p. 154;
Battles and headers,
Vol. IV, p. 564.
