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7. THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
 
“I know Hooker well” SCW, 452.
“affectionate regards” and “He has lost” Freeman,
Lee
, II: 560.
“My God! What will the country say!” Donald,
Lincoln,
436.
“It’s unnecessary for me” PUSG, VIII: 151.
“stop all troops” SG, 244. See also SCW, 470
n.
“what rations of hard bread” SG, 244.
“I knew well” SG, 245.
“You may not hear” PUSG, VIII: 196.
“the operatives were told” GMS, 338.
“mounted on two” Catton,
Grant Moves South
, 438. See also Wilson,
Dana,
219–20.
“is not in good plight” SG, 249.
“I was close enough” Ibid.
“A pontoon-bridge” SM, 349.
“These were still” GMS, 326.
“Until this moment” LL, 277.
“was in my rear” GMS, 355.
“resulted in securing” Ibid., 354.
“The heads of Colums” through “a dirty dog” SCW, 472.
“I want this planted” LL, 279.
“The attack was gallant” GMS, 335.
“This last attack” Ibid., 356.
“I now determined” Ibid., 357.
“a dozen or two of poultry” through “But the intention was good” Ibid., 364.
“Among the earliest arrivals” Ibid.
“I am too weak” Symonds,
Johnston,
212.
“Not a day passed” Hoehling,
Vicksburg
, 147.
“I was just within” Ibid., 75-76.
“When I was driving stakes” Ibid., 146.
“Say! You old bastard” Ibid., 93.
“Dear General” SCW, 474.
“I would add” PUSG, VIII: 395.
“A force of some two thousand” Dana,
Recollections,
93.
“I am anxious to get” PUSG, IX: 23.
“The negro troops” Ibid., 110.
“I would prefer” LL, 303.
“the great solicitude” SG, 232.
“delivered that admirable communication” Ulysses S. Grant Homepage, 47, citing “General Grant’s Occasional Intoxication,” New York
Sun,
April 28, 1891.
“only served to increase” GMS, 356.
“did great injustice” Ibid., 367.
“we lost, needlessly” SCW, 487.
“I should have relieved him” PUSG, VIII: 385
n.
“most pernicious consequences” Ibid., 386
n
.
“not an officer” SCW, 501.
“You will go” PUSG, VIII: 408.
“I have given” Ibid., 402.
“I did hope” SCW, 500.
“with him I am” Ibid., 580.
Grant to Sherman, June 23, 1863 PUSG, VIII: 411.
“very often oxen” Hoehling,
Vicksburg,
165.
“Hotel de Vicksburg” and menu Ibid., 163.
“How the other troops” Ibid., 169.
“What’s become of Fido?” Ibid., 162.
“I’m going down” and “I want to see” LL, 287.
“I am personally acquainted” PUSG, VIII: 414.
The effort to capture Frederick Grant is from Casey, “When Grant Went A-Courtin’.”
“Many Soldiers” letter Hoehling,
Vicksburg,
241; LL, 290.
“Fred. Has returned” through “Kiss the children” PUSG, VIII: 445.
Details of the surrender negotiations GMS, 374-79; SG, 254-56; PUSG, VIII: 455-59.
“Pemberton was much excited” Dana,
Recollections,
101.
“sitting on my little cot” through “a general rejoicing” Hoehling,
Vicksburg
, 272.
“Not a cheer went up” LL, 290.
“it was good to see” Ibid., 291.
“At Vicksburg” GMS, 384.
“We met” Hoehling,
Vicksburg,
276.
“What a contrast” SG, 256.
“I rode into” Hoehling,
Vicksburg
, 280.
“No one” SG, 256.
“I judge” PUSG, VIII: 460.
“When we go in” Ibid.
“I want Johnston” Ibid., 461.
“If you are” Ibid., 461
n
.
“There is but little” Ibid.
“The news is so good” Ibid., 463
n
.
“I can hardly” through “sling the knapsack for new fields” LL,, 291–92.
Grant to Sherman, July 4, 1863 PUSG, VIII: 479.
“Never mind, General” Freeman,
Lee
, III: 130.
“I had been a most bitter” Vandiver,
Civil War Battlefields,
79.
“stating that Meade” PUSG, IX: 18.
“the news from the Potomac” SCW, 503.
“Victory! Waterloo Eclipsed!” Wagner,
Civil War Desk Reference,
31.
“The Father of Waters” SG, 258.
“envelop the insurgent states” Wagner,
Civil War Desk Reference
, 334.
“Grant is my man” SG, 259.
“My Dear General” Ibid., 257.
8. PAIN AND PLEASURE ON THE LONG ROAD TO CHATTANOOGA AND MISSIONARY RIDGE
 
“The dirt road” LL, 294.
“If Johnston is pursued” This exchange between Grant and Sherman is in PUSG, IX: 66–68.
“a large, white” JDG, 119.
“It combines” SCW, 521.
“Victor” Ross,
The General’s Wife
, 153.
“I may wish to use” SG, 261.
“The people of these states” Ibid., 377.
“Rude Barbarians” SCW, 448.
“I doubt if History affords” Ibid., 492.
“a Civil Government now” Ibid., 546–48.
“boned” Glatthaar,
Partners
, 143.
“He is not” SCW, 236.
“we have in Grant” Ibid., 500–501.
“To me he is a mystery” M, 385.
“As we sat in Oxford” SCW, 506.
“stunned and confused” SG, 263.
“Willy then told me” Hirshson,
White Tecumseh
, 165-66.
“Mrs. Sherman, Minnie, Lizzie, and Tom” SM, 374.
“this is the only death” PUSG, IX: 274.
“private letter” Ibid., 272.
“My Dear Friend” SM, 374-75.
“I have got up early” SCW, 552.
“The moment I begin to think” Ibid., 556.
“My heart is now” M, 238.
“He knew & felt” SCW, 565.
“We must all now” Ibid., 537.
“Hold Chattanooga” PUSG, IX: 302.
“was seated entirely alone” SG, 265.
“a horse-back ride” PUSG, IX: 317.
Porter’s account of his first experience with Grant Porter,
Campaigning,
1-5.
“Please approve” PUSG, IX: 308.
“He had scarcely begun” Porter,
Campaigning,
6.
“bluntly but politely” through “material correction” Ibid., 6-7.
“a special train” SM, 376.
“some shallow rifle-trenches” Ibid., 377.
“I am coming” LL, 310.
“as though” and “I was somewhat” M, 239.
“The enemy” SM, 378.
“As soon as” Porter,
Campaigning,
9.
“During the fight” Ibid., 9–10.
Howard’s description of the meeting between Grant and Sherman McFeely, Grant, 118–19.
9. CONFUSION AT CHATTANOOGA
 
“I am convinced” Downey,
Storming
, 132.
“it was considered” LL, 319.
“the most sensible” Ibid., 321.
“I need not express” Kennett,
Sherman,
213. Charles A. Dana wrote that “Grant says the error is his,” but it was clear that Grant had expected Sherman to leave his wagons and arrive sooner (ibid.). Also see LL, 317-18.
“It isn’t possible” Downey,
Storming,
162.
“Up and up they went” Ibid., 165.
“Here come fresh troops” Ibid., 164.
“General Sherman carried” and “impracticable” PUSG, IX: 443.
“A full moon made” and “no report” Dana,
Recollections
, 140.
“Hail to the Chief” LL, 320.
“When General Grant” Williams,
McClellan, Sherman and Grant
, 100.
“that General Thomas” SM, 402.
“I had watched” Ibid., 404.
“vast masses” Ibid.
“Where is Thomas?” through “All servants, cooks, clerks” The account of this part of the action at Missionary Ridge is from LL, 320-22.
“A crash like a thousand thunderclaps” SG, 278.
“Thomas, who ordered those men” Downey,
Storming,
179.
“On, Wisconsin!” SG, 280.
“My God, come and see ‘em” and “It was the sight of our lives” LL, 323.
“You’ll all be court-martialed!” LL, 324.
“Almost up” and “A fellow of the Twenty-second Indiana” Ibid.
“drawn vast masses” SM, 404.
“to march at once” Ibid.
“prompt pursuit” Morris,
Sheridan,
147.
“Glory to God” Dana to Stanton, November 24, 1863, Dana,
Recollections,
141.
“The storming of the ridge” Wilson, Dana, 293.
“Damn the battle!” Morris, Sheridan, 64.
“The whole philosophy” SCW, 576.
“the whole plan” SM, 396.
“Discovering that the enemy” Thomas,
General
Thomas
, 447.
Regarding his ability to see the entire battlefield clearly, on December 2, 1863, Grant wrote Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, “It is the only battle field I have ever seen where a plan could be followed and from one place the whole field is within view.” PUSG, IX: 490-91.
“weakening his center” Ibid., 562.
“holding a fine lot” SM, 393.
“domiciled” Ibid.
“bleeding feet” M, 246.
Dodge’s account of Grant and Sherman’s day in Nashville Hirshson,
Dodge,
86–87.
“being calculated to do injustice” PUSG, IX: 562. Among the words stricken from Grant’s report were, “I have been thus particular in noticing this matter because public notices have, unintentionally no doubt given accounts of the battle of Chattanooga, calculated to do injustice to as brave and gallant troops as fought in that battles.”
“only be considered” LL, 329.
“for their gallantry” SM, 413.
“permit your name” The exchange of letters between Burns and Grant is in PUSG, IX: 541, 542
n
.
“in the name of the people” SG, 284.
“Nothing could induce me” PUSG, IX: 542n.
“You occupy a position” Ibid., 555
n
.
“the next year” SCW, 573.
“pecked and pounded” Hirshson,
Dodge,
87.
“The only vote that now tells” SCW, 564.
“MY DEAR MADAM” PUSG, IX: 524.
“With him I am” SCW, 580.
“will go to the front” PUSG, IX: 577.
“camp dysentery and typhoid fever” PUSG, X: 74.
Julia Grant’s eyes Ibid., 126–27.
“Longstreet has” Ibid., 86.
“that there was much” Ibid., 85.
“As it is rather desirable” Ibid., 96.
“secure the entire” Ibid., IX: 500.
“Somehow our cavalry” Hirshson,
White Tecumseh
, 185.
“I have one of my best” PUSG, X: 20.
“Enemy is scattered” Ibid., 21.
“It now looks as if” Ibid., 100.
“He was to go for Lee” LL, 345.

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