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1
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 438–441.
2
Jay Winik,
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), 29; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:853; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:130; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:425–428; Cadwallader,
Three Years with Grant
, 306; Simson,
Crisis of Command
, 10; Wittenberg,
Little Phil
, 150.
3
Edward G. Longacre,
The Cavalry at Appomattox
(Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003), 39; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:425–426; Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 422.
4
Catton,
Grant Takes Command
, 437; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 531; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:128–129; Adam Badeau,
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, From April, 1861, to April, 1865
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882), 3:451.
5
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:132–133.
6
Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 386–392, 416.
7
Winik,
April 1865
, 33.
8
Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:840–842.
9
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:134–135; O.R., V. 46, Part III, 266; Chris Calkins,
History and Tour Guide of the Battle of Five Forks
(Columbus, OH:
Blue & Gray Magazine
, 2003), 54.
10
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:425–428; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:137–139.
11
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:432–433; Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 426–427; Wert,
Custer
, 214–215.
12
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:433; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:140; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 56, 61–62.
13
Sheridan Papers, Reel 50.
14
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 428–429; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 531; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:143–145.
15
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:148; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:429–430; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 36; Ed Bearss and Chris Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
(Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1985), 10–13.
16
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 431; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:148–152; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 64–70; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 68–74; Henry Edwin Tremain,
Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry
(New York: Bonnell, Silver & Bowers, 1904), 50.
17
Tremain,
Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry
, 54; Major General Wesley Merritt, “The Appomattox Campaign,”
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Missouri Commandery
(St. Louis: Smith & Owens Print Co., 1887), 1:112–113; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:153; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 70–72; Bearss and Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
, 43, 45.
18
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 432; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:154–156; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 88; O.R., V. 46, Part I, 1104.
19
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:156–157; Bearss and Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
, 73–75; Calkins,
History and Tour Guide
, 68.
20
Hergesheimer,
Sheridan
, 299–301; Bearss and Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
, 59–66; Sheridan Papers, Reel 94.
21
Catton,
Grant Takes Command
, 231; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 534–535.
22
Morrison,
“The Best School in the World,”
6; William H. Goetzmann,
Exploration and Empire
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978), 316; Simson,
Crisis of Command
, 122–124; Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 541–542.
23
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 434–435; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 93–95; Sheridan Papers, Reel 94.
24
Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 95–99.
25
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 435.
26
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:160–161; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 99.
27
Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 99.
28
Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:870; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:447–448.
29
Calkins,
History and Tour Guide
, 180–181.
30
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 779–781; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 88–89.
31
Bearss and Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
, 77, 85, 89, 91; Drake,
Little Phil
, 388; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 86; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 105; Merritt, “The Appomattox Campaign,” 116; Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 437.
32
Bearss and Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
, 69–70; Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies
, 130.
33
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 437–438.
34
O.R., V. 46, Part I, 835–836 (Warren's report); Ibid., 1105; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:873; O'Connor,
Sheridan the Inevitable
, 254; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 122; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:163; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:449; Morris,
Sheridan,
252; William Henry Powell,
The Fifth Army Corps (Army of the Potomac)
(New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1896), 809.
35
O.R., V. 46, Part I, 1105, 833; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 535.
36
Warner,
Generals in Blue
, 542; Sheridan Papers, Reel 94; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:167–168; Sheridan Papers, Reel 14.
37
Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies
, 153–154.
38
Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 438–441.
39
Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 123; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:873–875; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:453; O.R., V. 46, Part I, 54; Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 442.
12. THE RACE TO APPOMATTOX
1
Catton,
Grant Takes Command
, 462.
2
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:455; Winik,
April 1865
, 99; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 131.
3
Bearss and Calkins,
Battle of Five Forks
, 2; William Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox
(Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 202.
4
Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:279, 285; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 5–6, 9, 202–203; Winik,
April 1865
, 99.
5
Emory Thomas,
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
(New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995), 352–353; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 9, 11; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:454; Winik,
April 1865
, 104.
6
Winik,
April 1865
, 75; Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 786–788; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 25–26.
7
O.R., V. 46, Part III, 529; Thomas,
Robert E. Lee
, 356; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:457; Winik,
April 1865
, 126–127; Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 789; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 561; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 50; Calkins,
History and Tour Guide
, 126.
8
O.R., V. 46, Part III, 449, 528.
9
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:175; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 45–46.
10
Longacre,
Cavalry
, 128–129.
11
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:463; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 130–132; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 144–146; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:177.
12
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:177; Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:914; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 149–150; O.R., V. 49, Part I, 582.
13
Cadwallader,
Three Years with Grant
, 312; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 546; Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies
, 205.
14
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 791; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 7, 63–65; Thomas,
Robert E. Lee
, 357.
15
Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies
, 210, 213–214.
16
Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 79; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:179; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:465.
17
Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 548.
18
Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 71, 75, 77; Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 549; Ezra J. Warner,
Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 70.
19
Drake,
Little Phil
, 408–412.
20
O.R., V. 46, Part III, 609.
21
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:181–182.
22
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 794.
23
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:180.
24
Ibid., 182–183.
25
Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 174–175; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 83–86.
26
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:180–181.
27
Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:918.
28
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:183; Winik,
April 1865
, 135–136.
29
Longacre,
Cavalry
, 156; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:185–186; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 91; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:473; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 188.
30
O.R., V. 46, Part III, 610.
31
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:187.
32
Edward P. Tobie,
History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861–1865
(Boston: Emery & Hughes, 1887), 418.
33
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 801.
34
Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 191–192; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:187–188.
35
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 799–800; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:476; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:188).
36
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:188.
37
Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 550–551; O.R., V. 46, Part III, 619; Thomas,
Robert E. Lee
, 359–360; Sheridan Papers, Reel 50.
38
Freeman,
Lee's Lieutenants
, 802–803; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 143, 118–120; Thomas,
Robert E. Lee
, 359–360; October 5, 2011, interview with Sam Wilson Jr., chief ranger at Sailor's Creek Battlefield Historical State Park.
39
Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 192–194.
40
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:188–189.
41
Ibid., 189–190.
42
Ibid., 190; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 150–151; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:480.
43
O.R., V. 46, Part III, 654.
44
Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 551.
45
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:191; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 180.
46
O.R., V. 46, Part III, 652–654; Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies
, 230–231; Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:483.
47
Grant,
Personal Memoirs
, 552–553; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 156–157.
48
Starr,
The Union Cavalry,
2:483; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:191–192.
49
Thomas,
Robert E. Lee
, 361; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 436–438.
50
Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:192; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 208–210; Gordon,
Reminiscences
, 436–438.
51
Foote,
The Civil War
, 3:941–943; Newhall,
With General Sheridan
, 208–211; Chamberlain,
The Passing of the Armies
, 232–236, 244; Marvel,
Lee's Last Retreat
, 170–171; Longacre,
Cavalry
, 193; Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs
, 2:193–194.
52
Longacre,
Cavalry
, 194; O'Connor,
Sheridan the Inevitable
, 268.
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