Authors: Bruce Catton
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Sling the Knapsack for New Fields
1 | This account of the meeting follows Grant's version in |
2 | Letter of Richard Puffer, of the 8th Illinois. |
3 | For Northern references to the parole problem, see O. R., Series Three, Vol. IV, pp. 570, 576, 596, 644; Vol. V, p. 374. |
4 | Grant's account of the conference is in |
5 | Grant in |
6 | Grant, |
7 | Sherman to Grant, July 4, O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, p. 472. Grant's messages to Sherman are in the same volume, pp. 460â461. The account of his exchange with Pemberton, regarding modification of the terms, follows Grant, |
8 | O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Two, pp. 190â192. |
9 | Under the Old Flag |
10 | Badeau, Vol. I, p. 388; |
11 | The exchange of messages in respect to slaves is in O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, pp. 479, 483, 484. |
12 | A Different Valor |
13 | O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, p. 534; |
14 | B. & L. |
15 | Badeau, Vol. I, pp. 388, 409â410; O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, pp. 546â547. |
16 | O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, p. 587. |
17 | Anecdotes of General Grant |
18 | Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, |
19 | Excerpt from a sketch written by Julia Dent Grant, printed in the |
20 | O. R., Vol. XXIV, Part Three, pp. 498, 547. Promotion in the Regular service was of enormous importance to all Regular Army officers in the Civi' War. Commissions in the Volunteer service would of course lapse when the war ended, and a major general might go back |
21 | Basler, |
Bibliography
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S
OURCES
U. S. Grant Papers in the Missouri Historical Society.
U. S. Grant Papers in the Illinois State Historical Library.
Letters of U. S. Grant to General James B. McPherson, in the Rutgers University Library.
Memoirs written by Julia Dent Grant, in the possession of a descendant.
Elihu B. Washburne Papers, in the Library of Congress.
William T. Sherman Papers, in the Library of Congress.
Letter of General Sherman to Mrs. Sherman, loaned by Miss E. Sherman Fitch; in the Lloyd Lewis Papers.
W. T. Sherman Papers, in the Huntington Library.
The R. T. Lincoln Collection, in the Library of Congress.
Manuscript Memoir of General John C. Frémont, in the Bancroft Library, University of California.
The George G. Pride Collection, in the Missouri Historical Society.
Papers of General Charles F. Smith, loaned by W. Terry Oliver, of Glenbrook, Connecticut.
Joseph Kirkland Papers, in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Edwin M. Stanton Papers, in the Library of Congress.
The DeCoppett Collection, Princeton University Library.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Diaries, in the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ms. Diary of General Jacob Ammen, in the Illinois State Historical Library.
Papers of Senator James R. Doolittle, in the State Historical Library, Madison, Wisconsin.
Ms. Biography of General John A. McClernand, by General Edward J. McClernand, in the Illinois State Historical Library.
The John Page Nicholson Collection, at the Huntington Library.
Blair Family Papers, in the Library of Congress.
Letters of General Lew Wallace, in the Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
Regimental Order Book of the 21st Illinois, in the National Archives.
Letter of General N. J. T. Dana, in the Huntington Library.
Ms. Letter of Richard Puffer of the 8th Illinois, in the Chicago Historical Society.
Biography of Major General Grenville M. Dodge: typescript in the Iowa State Department of History and Archives.
The Oliver Barrett Collection.
Civil War Reminiscences of Dr. John Cooper; manuscript loaned by Harley Bronson Cooper of Lynbrook, New York.
Letters of George L. Lang, of the 12th Wisconsin; loaned by Stanley Barnett of Cleveland.
Letters of Isaac Jackson of the 83rd Ohio; loaned by J. O. Jackson of Detroit.
Letters of Abram S. Funk of the 35th Iowa; loaned by Mrs. Erie M. Funk of Long Beach, California.
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AGAZINES
Use was made of numerous newspaper and magazine files. Many of these were in the immense set of newspaper clippings collected by Lloyd Lewis; others were consulted in various libraries. Newspapers and magazines quoted in the text include:
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri Republican, New York Tribune, New York Herald, New York Times, New York World, Washington Post, Galena Northwestern Gazette, Cincinnati Commercial, Chicago Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Journal, National Tribune
and
National Republican
.
Also
McClure's Magazine, Army and Navy Journal, Midland Monthly, Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Iowa Historical Record, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, North American Review, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Chicago Forum
and
American Heritage
.
B
OOKS
A principal reliance in any study of the Civil War is of course the massive War Department compendium, “The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.” This is cited in the footnotes simply as O. R.; unless otherwise specified, the volumes used are from Series One. Use has also been made of the companion “Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies during the War of the Rebellion.”
Other books consulted include the following:
BOOKS RELATING DIRECTLY TO GRANT
Adam Badeau,
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant
. 3 vols. New York, 1868.
Sylvanus Cadwallader,
Three Years with Grant
, edited by Benjamin P. Thomas. New York, 1955.
William Conant Church,
Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction
. New York, 1897.
A. L. Conger,
The Rise of U. S. Grant
. New York, 1931.
Louis A. Coolidge,
Ulysses S. Grant
. Boston and New York, 1917.
Henry Coppee,
Life and Services of General U. S. Grant
. Chicago, 1868.
Jesse Grant Cramer, ed.,
Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his Father and his Youngest Sister
. New York, 1912.
Nelson Cross,
The Modern Ulysses, LL.D.; His Political Record
. New York, 1872.
Wilbur F. Crummer,
With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg
. Oak Park, Ill., 1915.
Charles A. Dana and James H. Wilson,
The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
. Springfield, 1868.
John Eaton,
Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen
. New York, 1907.
J. F. C. Fuller,
The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant
. London, 1929.
Hamlin Garland,
Ulysses S. Grant; his Life and Character
. New York, 1898.
U. S. Grant,
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
. 2 vols. New York, 1885.
William B. Hesseltine,
Ulysses S. Grant, Politician
. New York, 1935.
Lloyd Lewis,
Captain Sam Grant
. Boston, 1950.
John B. McMaster,
The Life, Memoirs, Military Career and Death of General Grant
. Philadelphia, 1885.
General Horace Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
. New York, 1897.
Albert D. Richardson,
A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant
. Hartford, 1868.
J. L. Ringwalt,
Anecdotes of General Grant
. Philadelphia, 1886.
James Grant Wilson,
The Life and Campaigns of General Grant
. New York, 1897.
ââ, ed.,
General Grant's Letters to a Friend, 1861â1880
. New York, 1897.
John Russell Young,
Around the World with General Grant
. 2 vols. New York, 1879.
GENERAL WORKS
Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen,
The Old Navy and the New
. Philadelphia, 1891.
Roy Basler, ed.,
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
. 8 vols. Rutgers, New Jersey, 1953.
D. Alexander Brown,
Griersor's Raid
. Urbana, Illinois, 1954.
Bruce Catton,
This Hallowed Ground
. New York, 1956.
Augustus L. Chetlain,
Recollections of Seventy Years
. Galena, Illinois, 1899.
Dudley Taylor Cornish,
The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861â1865
. New York, 1956.
Jacob D. Cox,
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War
. 2 vols. New York, 1900.
Emmet Crozier,
Yankee Reporters, 1861â65
. New York, 1956.
Charles A. Dana,
Recollections of the Civil War
. New York, 1902.
Major General Grenville Dodge,
Personal Recollections
. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1914.
David Donald, ed.,
Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase
. New York and London, 1954.
Clement Eaton,
A History of the Southern Confederacy
. New York, 1954.
M. F. Force,
From Fort Henry to Corinth
. New York, 1882.
Gustavus V. Fox,
Confidential Correspondence of G. V. Fox, 1861â65
. 2 vols. New York, 1920.
Jessie Benton Frémont,
The Story of the Guard; a Chronicle of the War
. Boston, 1863.
H. Allen Gosnell,
Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War
. Baton Rouge, 1949.
Gilbert Govan and James W. Livingood,
A Different Valor: The Story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A
. Indianapolis, 1956.
Francis Vinton Greene,
The Mississippi
. New York, 1884.
Matilda Gresham,
The Life of Walter Quintin Gresham
. 2 vols. Chicago, 1919.
M. B. Hammond,
The Cotton Industry: An Essay in American Economic History
. New York, 1892.
Francis B. Heitman,
Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army
. 2 vols. Washington, 1903.
Robert Selph Henry,
First with the Most: Forrest
. Indianapolis, 1944.
ââ,
The Story of the Confederacy
. Indianapolis, 1931.
Stanley Horn,
The Army of Tennessee
. Indianapolis, 1941.