The Fateful Lightning (76 page)

A PARTIAL LIST OF PRIMARY SOURCES

William T. Sherman, USA

Ulysses S. Grant, USA

Joseph E. Johnston, CSA

Henry M. Hitchcock, USA

Thomas D. Duncan, CSA

Cyrus F. Boyd, USA

Sam R. Watkins, CSA

John Beatty, USA

Joshua K. Callaway, CSA

Augustus L. Chetlain, USA

William B. Hazen, USA

Ira Blanchard, USA

Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge, CSA

Thomas W. Osborn, USA

George W. Pepper, USA

Jacob Ritner, USA

George B. Guild, CSA

My most sincere thanks to the historians whose published works proved extremely helpful in the telling of this story:

John G. Barrett

Mark L. Bradley

Burke Davis

Mark H. Dunkelman

John P. Dyer

John M. Gibson

Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.

Katharine M. Jones

Charles F. Larimer

John F. Marszalek

Samuel J. Martin

Kevin Rawlings

Craig L. Symonds

Noah Andre Trudeau

My deepest appreciation to the following, who contributed invaluable assistance and information, including unpublished, and often, previously unknown material:

John Belfrage, Pierce, Colorado

Kirk Bradley, Sanford, North Carolina

Patrick Falci, Rosedale, New York

Colonel Keith Gibson, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia

Nancie Gudmestad, Shriver House Museum, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

James Izzell, Bennett Place State Historic Site, Durham, North Carolina

Evalyn E. Kearns, Atlanta, Georgia

Emma McSherry, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

T. J. Miller, Bennett Place State Historic Site, Durham, North Carolina

Kim A. O’Connell, Arlington, Virginia

Ryan Reed, Bennett Place State Historic Site, Durham, North Carolina

William Rutledge, Jr., Fort Collins, Colorado

Stephanie Shaara, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

William G. Stanley, Aiken, South Carolina

Donny Taylor, Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site, Four Oaks, North Carolina

Edward W. Vollersten, Monticello, Florida

Matthew Watros, Newfield, New York

BY JEFF SHAARA

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The Fateful Lightning

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The Glorious Cause

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credit: Olivia Cowden

J
EFF
S
HAARA
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Smoke at Dawn, A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion
, and
Gone for Soldiers
, as well as
Gods and Generals
and
The Last Full Measure
—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic,
The Killer Angels
. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Gettysburg.

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