The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (45 page)

23. On California and the war generally, see Gilbert, “California and the Civil War,” 289–307. For details on the men who fought in the war, see especially Richard H. Orton, comp.,
Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865
(Sacramento, Calif., 1890). For the California Battalion, see James McLean,
California Sabers: The 2nd Massachusetts in the Civil War
(Indianapolis, 2000); Larry Rogers and Keith Rogers,
Their Horses Climbed Trees: A Chronicle of the California 100 and Battalion in the Civil War, from San Francisco to Appomattox
(Atglen, Pa., 2001). For an exaggerated version of Colonel Baker’s heroics, see Elijah J. Kennedy,
The Contest for California in 1861
(Boston, 1912).

24. For the details of this incident, see A. Russell Buchanan,
David S. Terry of California: Dueling Judge
(San Marino, Calif., 1956), 191–231; Robert H. Kroninger, “The Justice and the Lady,”
Supreme Court Historical Society 1977 Yearbook
(Washington, D.C., 1976); Paul Kens,
Justice Stephen Field:
Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age
(Lawrence, Kans., 1997), 275–83.

25. Stephen J. Field,
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California
(San Francisco, 1893), 70–71.

26. Ibid., 101. See also Kroninger, “The Justice and the Lady”; Kens,
Justice Field,
74, 275–83.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leonard L. Richards, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, grew up in California and earned his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis. He has also taught at San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. His
“Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America
won the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award in 1970.
The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and
The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860
took the second-place Lincoln Prize in 2001. He is also the author of
The Advent of American Democracy, 1815–1848
(1977), of
Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle
(2002), and, with William Graebner, of
The American Record
(1981, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2005). He and his wife live in Amherst, Massachusetts.

ALSO BY LEONARD L. RICHARDS

“Gentlemen of Property and Standing”:
Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America

The Advent of American Democracy, 1815–1848

The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams

The Slave Power:
The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860

The American Record
(with William Graebner)

Shays’s Rebellion:
The American Revolution’s Final Battle

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Richards, Leonard L.

The California Gold Rush and the coming of the Civil War /

Leonard L. Richards. —1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Califonia—Gold discoveries. 2. California—History—1846–1850. 3. California—Politics and government—1846–1850. 4. Politicians—California—History—19th century. 5. Politicians—United States—History—19th century. 6. Sectionalism (United States)—History—19th Century. 7. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Causes. 8. Slavery—Political aspects—United States—History—19th century. 9. United States—Politics and governement—1815–1861. I. Title.

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