Manassas: A Battlefield Guide

Sources

Sources In general the works cited in the “Further Reading” sections of each stop provide information, interpretation, and insight. The citations of those works in those sections should in every case be taken as an attribution of credit for the material presented there. The sources for specific quotes in each stop are provided here. FIRST MANASSAS The Road to First Manassas “You are green it is true”: U.S. Congress, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 3 vols. (Washington dc: Government Printing Office, 1863), 2:37–38 (hereafter cited as jccw). Stop 1 “On the evening of July 21”: Erasmus D. Keyes, Fifty Years’ Observation of Men and Events (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1884), 432; “We were leading the brave, lighthearted division”: Martin A. Haynes, A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion (Lakeport nh: n.p., 1896), 23–24; “The enemy made his appearance”: U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 vols. in 128 parts (Washington dc: Government Printing Office, 1880– 1901), ser. 1, vol. 2: 558–59 (hereafter cited as or; all references are from series 1). Stop 2 “When we arrived at the ford”: Thomas M. Aldrich, The History of Battery A: First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union (Providence ri: Snow and Farnham, 1904), 19–20; “Here is the battlefield”: John D. Imboden, “Incidents of the First Bull Run,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert U. Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, 4 vols. (New York: Century, 1885–87), 1:232; “They are running!”: Henry N. Blake, Three Years in the Army of the Potomac (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1865), 16; “Mounting the hill”: William M. Robbins, “With Generals Bee and Jackson at First Manassas,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 5, edited by Peter Cozzens (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 45–46. Stop 3 “My little battery was”: Imboden, “Incidents of the First Bull Run,” 1:234. Stop 4 “Will you follow me back”: John J. Hennessy, “Jackson’s ‘Stone Wall’: Fact or Fiction?,” unpublished manuscript, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Virginia; “turned my guns upon the house,” “We started for the hill”: jccw, 1:243, 168–69; “General, the day is going”: James I. Robertson, Stone- 246 Sources wall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (New York: Macmillan , 1997), 266; “yell like furies”: John J. Hennessy, The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18–21 1861 (Lynchburg va: H. E. Howard, 1989), 97–98. Stop 5 “Colonel Elzey . . . moved us first”: McHenry Howard, Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer under Johnston , Jackson, and Lee (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1914), 37–42. Stop 6 “There is no alternative”: or, 2:316; “army was more disorganized ”: Joseph E. Johnston, “Responsibilities of the First Bull Run,” in Johnson and Buel, Battles and Leaders, 1:252; “In the final struggle”: Haynes, A History of the Second Regiment, 35–36; “Our movements may be of a few days”: Evan. C. Jones, “What Did They Do to Sullivan Ballou?,” America’s Civil War 26 (July 2013): 60–66. SECOND MANASSAS The Road to Second Manassas “I hear constantly”: or, vol. 12, pt. 3: 474; “a miscreant” “to be suppressed”: Clifford Dowdey and Louis H. Manarin, eds., The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee (1961; New York: Da Capo, 1987), 239, 240. Overview of August 28, 1862 “we shall bag”: or, vol. 12, pt. 2: 72. Stop 1 “The Pike passed”: W. W. Blackford, War Years with Jeb Stuart (1945; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993), 120–21; “along the turnpike”: Rufus Dawes, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers (Marietta oh: E. R. Alderman & Sons, 1890), 60–63. Overview of August 29, 1862 “push forward into action”: or, vol. 12, pt. 2 (supplement): 826. Stop 2 “to be cashiered”: or, vol. 12, pt. 2 (supplement): 1051; “a Division Commander’s”: Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, vol. 2: 1852–1863 (New York: McClure, 1907), 362–68; “A Yankee sharpshooter”: John J. Hennessy, Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 226, 278; “The moment was an important one”: Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee: A Biography, 4 vols. (New York: Scribner, 1934–35), 2:325; “It may be necessary”: [3.145.131...