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Notes . . Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, vols. (New York, ), :–, –; William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (New York, ), pp. –; Albert Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of (Lawrence , ), pp. – (hereafter cited as Castel, Atlanta); Don Lowry, No Turning Back: The Beginning of the End of the Civil War, March–June (New York, ), pp. –; Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat (New York, ), pp. –; Allan Nevins, The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory, – (New York, ), pp. –; Howard K. Beale, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, vols. (New York, ), :– ; United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, –), series , vol. , pt. , p. . (hereafter cited as , with all references to volumes in series . Citations will be given as volume, , part, page; this citation would be , .) . See Castel, Atlanta, pp. –; James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York, ), pp. –; John C. Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln : The Battle for the Presidency (New York, ), pp. –. For examples of conservative Northerners alarmed by the war’s effect on American society, see Roy F. Nichols, Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills (Philadelphia , ), pp. –; and Bryon C. Andreasen, “Proscribed Preachers, New Churches: Civil Wars in the Illinois Protestant Churches during the Civil War,” Civil War History (): – (journal cited hereafter as ). See also Grant’s comments in , . As will be seen, I question Grant’s evaluation of his operations. . For background on the Davis-Johnston relationship, see Richard M. McMurry , “ ‘The Enemy at Richmond’: Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate Government,” (): –, and “Ole Joe in Virginia: Joseph E. Johnston’s – Period of Command in the East,” in Steven E. Woodworth, ed., Leadership and Command in the Civil War (Campbell , ), pp. –; and Joseph Notes to Pages – T. Glatthaar, “ ‘I Cannot Direct Both Parts of My Command at Once’: Davis, Johnston, and Confederate Failure in the West,” in his Partners in Command: The Relationships Between Leaders in the Civil War (New York, ), pp. –. Other works that differ to a greater or lesser degree are Gilbert E. Govan and James W. Livingood, A Different Valor: The Story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. (Indianapolis , ); Craig L. Symonds, Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (New York, ); and Steven Newton, Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond (Lawrence , ). . My views of Davis have been shaped by the sources cited in my articles listed in note above and by William C. Davis, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour, a Biography (New York, ). . On the Davis-Lee relationship, see Davis, Davis, and his “Davis and Lee: Partnership for Success,” in his The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy (Lawrence , ), pp. –; Steven E. Woodworth, Davis and Lee at War (Lawrence , ), and his “Davis, Lee and the Generals: Wisdom or Weakness?” paper presented to Blue & Gray Education Society, San Antonio, Feb. , ; and Charles P. Roland, Reflections on Lee: A Historian’s Assessment (Mechanicsburg , ). . See my articles cited in note above; Johnston’s wartime letters to his wife (especially those of Jan. , Mar. , Apr. , May , , and July , ) in McLane-Fisher Papers, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore; , ; and , . . . On Grant’s grand plan for , see his Memoirs, :–; , –, –; , –; ,–. . Grant, Memoirs, :. See Richard M. McMurry, Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History (Chapel Hill , ), for reasons why the Federal government should have accepted a stalemate in Virginia and concentrated its efforts on winning the war in the West—which, after all, was what it wound up doing but only after tens of thousands of needless casualites. . See Castel, Atlanta, pp. , –; Joseph T. Glatthaar, “ ‘If I Got in a Tight Place You Would Come—if Alive’: Grant, Sherman, and Union Success,” in Partners in Command, pp. –; John E. Marszalek, Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (New York, ); Francis F. McKinney, Education in Violence: The Life of General George H. Thomas and the History of the Army of the Cumberland (Detroit , ), pp. , , , , –, , , , –, ; , – (several Grant letters); and , . . See Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (Cambridge , ), pp. – , –, –, –, –, –; and Josiah Gorgas The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, –, ed. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins (Tuscaloosa , ), p. . [52.14.121.242] Project MUSE (2024-04-20 03:46 GMT) Notes to Pages – . This fruitless correspondence is in and , and , and . For examples, see , –, –. See also Thomas Lawrence Connelly, Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, – (Baton Rouge , ), chap. ; Symonds, Johnston, chap. ; Steven E. Woodworth, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command...
