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Notes PREFACE 1. Henry C. Baird Papers, in E. C. Gardiner Collection, HSP; William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (New York, 1866), 440n; Edward A. Pollard, The Lost Cause (New York, 1867), 510; John C. Ropes, "Grant's Campaign in Virginia in 1864," in PMHSM 4, 495; E. B. Long, "Ulysses S. Grant for Today," in Ulysses S. Grant: Essays and Documents, ed. David L. Wilson and John Y. Simon (Carbondale, 111., 1981), 22. 2. Walter H. Taylor, General Lee:His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865, with Personal Reminiscences (Norfolk, Va., 1906), 238; Peter W. Alexander dispatch, May 18, 1864, Columbia (S.C.) Daily South Carolinian, May 29,1864. 3. Clifford Dowdey, Lee's Last Campaign: The Story of Lee and His Men Against Grant, 1864 (New York, 1960), 297;Jay Winik, "A Narrative of Hell," New York Times Book Review, September 16, 2001, p. 23. I MAY25, 1864 Lee Deadlocks Grant on the North Anna 1. Details of Grant's plan of campaign against Lee are described in Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864 (Baton Rouge, 1994), 46-59. 2. For details of the Spotsylvania campaign, see Gordon C. Rhea, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864 (Baton Rouge, 1997). 3. Adam Badeau, Military History of General Ulysses S. Grant,from April, 1861, to April, 1865 (3 vols.; New York, 1881), 2, p. 235;Wesley Brainerd, Memoir of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers, ed. Ed Malles (Knoxville,Tenn., 1997), 226-7. Details of the North Anna operation are in Gordon C. Rhea, To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13—25, 1864 (Baton Rouge, 2000). 4. Charles S. Venable, "The Campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg," SUSP 14, p.535. 5. Morris Schaff, The Battle of the Wilderness (Boston, 1910), 201;Tyler Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (New York, 1939), 67; Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York, 1897), 70. For a more thorough discussion of the 420 NOTES TO PAGES 7-15 reasons behind the Potomac army's defensive mindset, see Gordon C. Rhea, Richard Rollins, Stephen Sears, and John Y. Simon, "What Was Wrong with the Army of the Potomac," North and South 4 (2001), 12-8. 6. George G. Meade to wife, April 4, 13, 1864, in George Meade, ed.,Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (2 vols.; New York, 1913), 2, pp. 187, 189;Henry H. Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys: A Biography (Philadelphia, 1924),219. 7. Allan Nevins, ed., Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright , 1861-1865 (New York, 1962), 338;Abbott Spear, ed., Civil War Recollections of General Ellis Spear (Orono, Me., 1997), 113; Ulysses S. Grant, "Preparing for the Campaign of '64," in B&L 4, p. 97 n. 8. Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1866), 283. 9. Meade to wife, May 19, 23, 1864, in Meade, Life and Letters 2, pp. 197-8; Grant, "Preparing for the Campaign of '64," 98. 10. David S. Sparks, ed., Inside Lincoln's Army: The Diary of Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Provost Marshal General, Army of the Potomac (New York, 1964), 377; William B. Rawle, History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War (Philadelphia, 1905), 430. 11. James C. Biddle to wife, May 4, 5, 1864, in George G. Meade Collection, HSP; Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 115; Badeau, General Ulysses S. Grant, 2, pp. 186-7; Theodore Lyman's journal, in Theodore Lyman Collection, MHS; George R. Agassiz, ed., Meade's Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox (Boston, 1922), 126;Andrew A. Humphreys, The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65 (New York, 1883), 83 n. 1. 12. George B. Sanford Fighting Rebels and Redskins: Experiences in Army Life of Colonel George B. Sanford, 1861-1892, ed. E. R. Hagemann (Norman, Okla., 1969), 223-4; Thomas W Hyde, Following the Greek Cross; or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps (Boston, 1894), 208. 13. Nevins, ed., Diary of Battle, 405; Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (2 vols.; New York, 1886), 2, pp. 214-5; George G. Meade to John Rawlins, June 21, 1864, in Meade Collection, HSP;Badeau, Ulysses S. Grant, 2, p. 184. 14. John Gibbon, Personal Recollections of the Civil War (New York, 1928), 227...
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