Gettysburg (91 page)

43 “rapid and well directed”/“some of the shells”: William J. Seymour Diary-Memoir (MHI).

45 “The day was very hot”: Banes,
History of the Philadelphia Brigade
, 172.

45 “They came verry near Marched us to death”: Benjamin Hough Letters, Town of Minisink Archives.

45 “The men carried heavy loads”: Fox, ed.,
New York at Gettysburg
, 2: 854.

45 “Here the court house was in flames”: Holcombe,
History of the First Minnesota
, 312.

45 “I wondered at this act of vandalism”: Muffley,
Story of Our Regiment
, 455.

45 “The destruction of such relics”: Elon Brown Diary-Memoir (MHI).

45 “The call is made from outside pressure”: Beale, ed.,
Diary of Gideon Welles
, vol. 1, 331.

45 Lincoln to Hooker:
OR
, 27/1: 43.

45 “murderous trap”: Kesses, Diary (MHI).

46 “spirits disembodied”: Alexander S. Pendleton Letters (SHC).

46 “knee-deep”/“mixed in their sympathies”: Leon,
Diary of a Tar Heel
, 32.

46 “The usual work”/“Horses, wagons, and cattle”:
Great Invasion
, 34.

48 “destroying the railroad depot”: Schuricht, “Jenkins’ Brigade,” 340.

48 “the greatest excitement”: Hoke,
Great Invasion
, 97.

48 “When we appeared”: Love, “Mississippi at Gettysburg,” 125.

48 “Thus far Gen. Lee’s plans”: Hassler, ed.,
One of Lee’s Best
, 247-48.

49 “My corps left Culpeper”: Longstreet, “Lee in Pennsylvania,” 418.

49 “The heat is frightful”: Durkin, ed.,
John Dooley Journal
, 95.

49 “A good many of the men fainted”: Oates,
War between the Union and the Confederacy
, 198.

49 Lee’s report: Dowdey and Manarin, eds.,
Wartime Papers
, 514-15.

49 “Longstreet started today”:
Lee’s Telegraph Book
(VHS).

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50 Marsena Patrick quotations: Sparks, ed.,
Inside Lincoln’s Army
, 260.

50 “News that the ‘Rebs’ are”: Jacob W. Haas Diary (MHI).

50 “Reported rebbels in Md.”: Owen, “Diary.”

50 “The Rebels are in Pennsylvania”: H.
C.
Christiancy Diary and Letters
(LOC).

50 “We seem to be completely isolated”: Quoted in Dunkelman,
Gettysburg’s Unknown Soldier
, 112.

52 Hooker-Lincoln-Halleck exchange:
OR
, 27/1: 45-47.

53 “better that we should lose men”:
OR
, 27/3: 172.

53 “a cover to Lee’s re-enforcing Bragg”:
OR
, 27/1: 47.

53 “Halleck is running the Marching”: Sparks, 260.

54 “The weather is very hot”/“Dust [is] shoe mouth deep”: Unknown Soldier Letters (MHI).

54 “We seemed to be suffocating at each step”: Bee, ed.,
Boys from Rockville
, 137.

54 “They look very nice”: Silliker, ed.,
Rebel Yell
, 93.

54 “Well, if you’re sick”: Quoted in Smith,
Twenty-Fourth Michigan
, 115.

54 “The boys went out and killed them”: Priest, ed.,
John T. McMahon’s Diary
, 50.

54 “They fear nothing so much”: Silliker, ed.,
Rebel Yell
, 93.

55 “large supplies”:
OR
, 27/2: 550.

55 “an old soldier is ever happy”: Hoole, ed.,
Reminiscences of the Autauga Rifles
, 22.

55 “just out of winter-quarters”: Hamilton, ed.,
Papers of Randolph Shotwell
, 479.

55 “Everything thus far has worked admirably”: Hassler, ed.,
One of Lee’s Best
, 249.

55 “is admirably organized”: Quoted in Davis,
Boy Colonel
, 272.

56 “I very much regret”:
OR
, 27/3: 905.

57 “a right jolly time”: Quoted in Fishel,
Secret War
, 458.

58 “must whip us”: Quoted in Fishel,
Secret War
, 465.

58 “Have we seen some sights”: William Penn Oberlin Letters (MHI).

58 “We found Plenty of signs”: Britton and Reed, eds.,
To My Beloved
, 180.

58 “several grinning skeletons”: Muffley,
Story of Our Regiment
, 457.

59 “While the Regiment”: Smith,
History of the Nineteenth Maine
, 57.

59 “Wounded men lay”: Smith,
History of the 118th Pennsylvania
, 224.

59 “I hope it will have a good effect”: Rufus Meade Diary (LOC).

59 “It is really affecting”: William Penn Oberlin Letters (MHI).

59 “Yes, he’s in his chariot”: Small, ed.,
Road to Richmond
, 113.

59 Hooker to newspapers:
OR
, 27/3: 192.

60 “There is very large reason for doubt”/“himself dug the grave”:
New York Herald
, June 19-25, 1863.

61 Jones quotations: Miers, ed.,
Rebel War Clerk’s Diary
, 228-29.

61 “I do not suppose any army”: Bonham, “A Little More Light,” 521.

61 “Our army is very large now”: Welch,
Confederate Surgeon’s Letters
, 56.

61 “We will march to Philadelphia”: Jeffries, “Letter to His Sister,” 253.

61 “I could never get over”: Douglas,
I Rode with Stonewall
, 235.

61 Pender to his wife: Hassler, ed.,
One of Lee’s Best
, 249.

61 “Yankee papers say”: Owen, “Diary.”

62 “Several are immersed”: Betts,
Experience of a Confederate Chaplain
, 38.

62 “up to our hips”: Quoted in Hale and Phillips,
History of the Forty-Ninth Virginia
, 72.

62 “It was amusing”: Quoted in Jones,
Lee’s Tigers
, 163.

62 “flags fluttering”: Hudgins, “With the 38th Georgia Regiment,” 162.

62 “She said she felt very sorry”: Runge, ed.,
Four Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery
, 48.

62 “I need and must have”: Basler, ed.,
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
, 6: 281-82.

62 “sad and careworn”: Beale, ed.,
Diary of Gideon Welles
, vol. 1, 340.

63 “What disgust there is”:
ORS
, 5: 31-32.

63 Hooker to Halleck:
OR
, 27/1: 55-56.

63 Lee communications: Dowdey and Manarin, eds.,
Wartime Papers
, 524-25.

64 “We have again out-maneuvered”: Trimble, “Battle and Campaign of Gettysburg,” 121.

64 “If Harrisburg comes”: Dowdey and Manarin, eds.,
Wartime Papers
, 524.

64 “spread out like a fan”/“with the approval of General Lee”: Mosby, “Confederate Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign,” 251.

65 “Rebels were crossing”: Broadhead,
Diary
, 5.

65 “it grew to be an old story”: Buehler,
Recollections of the Great Rebel Invasion.

65 “We do not feel much safer”: Broadhead,
Diary
, 5.

66 “the last of Lee’s entire army”: Quoted in Fishel,
Secret War
, 478.

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67 “Ho! for the Valley”: Cooke,
Wearing of the Gray
, 237.

68 Lee-Stuart-Longstreet exchange:
OR
, 27/3: 913, 915, 923.

69 “The letter suggested”: McClellan,
I Rode with Jeb Stuart
, 317-18.

70 “My advices”:
OR
, 27/3: 306.

70 “Genl. Hooker intends”: Sparks, ed.,
Inside Lincoln’s Army
, 264.

70 “about one-fourth of a mile”: Smith,
Camps and Campaigns of the 107th Ohio
, 83.

70 “The women cheered us”: Priest, ed.,
John T. McMahon’s Diary
, 51.

70 “We stopped and got good things to eat”: Mesnard Reminiscence (MHI).

70 “First, boats”: Bloodgood,
Personal Reminiscences of the War
, 121-22.

70 “No man who participated”: Nicholson, ed.,
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
, 1: 196.

71 “We slipped back”: Silliker, ed.,
Rebel Yell, 96.

71 “As the General commanding”:
Norfolk County Journal
, August 29, 1863.

71 Lee communications:
OR
, 27/3: 931-32.

72 Francis Dawson quotations: Dawson,
Reminiscences of Confederate Service
, 90-91.

72 “the inspiriting strains”: Hood,
Advance and Retreat
, 54.

72 “were bound to form squads”: Johnston, ed.,
Civil War Letters of Battle and Battle
, 15.

72 “command was frequently fired on”:
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, October 21, 1900.

72 “seems to be full of ‘bushwhackers’”: Schuricht, “Jenkins’ Brigade,” 342.

72 “were simply led out and shot”: Quoted in Kross, “Attack from the West,” 8.

73 “insignificant hamlet”: Smith,
History of the Nineteenth Maine
, 58.

73 “After marching 2 miles”: Stephen E. Martin Diary
(GNP).

73 “At 12 m”: Wolf, ed., “Campaigning with the First Minnesota,” 358.

73 “There were several casualties”: Lochren, “First Minnesota at Gettysburg,” 44.

73 “The exploding shells”: Holcombe,
History of the First Minnesota
, 314.

73 “In less than ten minutes”: Smith,
History of the Nineteenth Maine
, 58.

73 “The forming of Harrow’s brigade”: Holcombe,
History of the First Minnesota
, 34.

74 “long lines of wagons”: Cooke,
Wearing of the Gray
, 240.

74 Stuart’s report:
OR
, 27/2: 692-93.

74 “was continued until the enemy moved”/“He consulted with no one”: McClellan,
I Rode with Jeb Stuart
, 321-22.

74 “Since Hooker’s appearance”/“I learn also”:
ORS
, 5: 32.

75 “Where, in the mean time”: Beale, ed.,
Diary of Gordon Welles
, vol. 1, 343.

75 Soldier’s account of execution:
Richmond Daily Dispatch
, March 6, 1914.

75 “four like executions”: Blackford, ed.,
Letters from Lee’s Army
, 183.

75 “beneficial to other substitutes”: Robertson Jr.,
18th Virginia Infantry
, 20.

75 “Every one is asking”: Broadhead,
Diary
, 8.

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77 Stuart’s report:
OR
, 27/2: 693.

77 “Had very poor grazing”: William R. Carter Letters
(LVA).

77 “hold the Gaps”:
OR
, 27/3: 927-28.

77 “there were no skirmishes”: Coltrane,
Memoirs
, 15.

77 “The men upon whom”: Nicholson, ed.,
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
, 2: 777.

77 “They, of course”: Fastnacht,
Memories of the Battle of Gettysburg
, 3.

77 “many ‘contrabands’”:
Richmond Enquirer
, June 30, 1863.

77 “arrested … as a contraband”: Zachry, “Fighting with the 3d Georgia,” 75.

77 “We took a lot of negroes”: Moore, ed.,
Rebellion Record
, 6: 325.

80 “The free negroes are all gone”: Welch,
Confederate Surgeon’s Letters
, 58.

80 “Ben, the negro cook”: Smith,
Anson Guards
, 199.

80 “entire line of march I saw only two negroes”: Loyd, “Second Louisiana at Gettysburg,” 417.

80 “A steady and continuous rain”:
Detroit Free Press
, July 10, 1863.

80 “We had our knapsacks”: George P. Metcalf, “Recollection of Boyhood Days” (MHI).

80 “We cannot help beating them”: Beale, ed.,
Diary of Gideon Welles
, vol. 1, 344.

80 “betrayed doubts of Hooker”: Ibid.

81 “He was at that time about fifty-two”/Hoke’s prediction: Hoke,
Great Invasion
, 167.

81 “testing the qualities of Pennsylvania poultry”:
Atlanta Journal
, August 31, 1901.

81 “jolly set”: Thomas L. Ware Diary (SHC).

81 “marched in four states that day”: Robert T. Coles, “History of the 4th Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry” (Alabama Department of Archives and History).

82 “He did so”: Cummings, “Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863,” 406.

82 “60 head of cattle”: McKim, “Gettysburg Campaign,” 292.

82 “Our camp was in a wheat field”: Smith,
Anson Guards
, 200-1.

83 “various deeds of barbarity”: Jubal A. Early Papers (LOC).

84 “It has always seemed to me”: Nicholson, ed.,
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg
, 2:777-78.

84 “Our colonel”: Richards, “Citizens of Gettysburg,” 289.

84 “It was well”: Early,
Autobiographical Sketch
, 257.

84 “I never thought I could bear”: Quoted in Nye,
Here Come the Rebels!
, 278.

84 “It seemed as if Pandemonium”: Clare, “A Gettysburg Girl’s Story of the Great Battle” (ACHS).

84 “enough to frighten us all to death”: Broadhead,
Diary
, 8.

84 “We were all scared”:
Gettysburg Compiler
, July 26, 1905.

84 “boys looking through the slatted shutters”: Fahnestock, “Recollections of the Battle of Gettysburg” (ACHS).

85 “ransacking the barns”:
Gettysburg Compiler
, July 4, 1906.

85 “I began to plead for the horse”: Alleman,
At Gettysburg
, 25.

85 Leander Warren’s story: Warren, “Recollections of the Battle of Gettysburg” (ACHS).

85 “These Confederates were very firm”: Jacobs, “How an Eye-Witness Watched.”

85 “I never saw a more unsightly”/“dirty, … hatless”: Buehler,
Recollections of the Great Rebel Invasion.

85 “He suggested the propriety”:
Philadelphia Weekly Press
, November 16, 1887.

86 “to furnish whatever they can”: Hoke,
Great Invasion
, 171-72.

86 “exasperating”/“through the night”: McCreary, “Gettysburg: A Boy’s Experience.”

86 Hooker-Halleck-Lincoln communications:
OR
, 27/1: 58.

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88 “a most gallant officer”: McClellan,
I Rode with Jeb Stuart
, 323.

88 “wild and desolate locality”/“What would Stuart do”: Cooke,
Wearing of the Gray
, 242.