Notes
247 notes 1. The Politics of War, August 1861 to February 1862 1. McConkey to Yates, 16 June 1863, Woods to Yates, 9 April 1863, Fifth Illinois Cavalry, Administrative Files on Civil War Companies and Regiments, RS 301.018, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, Illinois (hereafter cited as Administrative Files); Thadeus B. Packard Diary, 1 June 1863, Reminiscences, MS. BV, Thadeus B. Packard Papers, ALPL (hereafter cited as Packard Diary). 2. John Moses, Illinois Historical and Statistical. . . . (Chicago: Fergus, 1892), 2:1208–9. All 1860 voting statistics taken from Moses. 3. Allen Johnson, Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics (New York: Macmillan, 1908), 478. 4. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion (Washington, DC: GPO, 1880–1901), ser. 3, 1:67–69 (hereafter cited as OR); Illinois Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois (Springfield: Phillips Bros. State Printers, 1900), 1:5, 11, 14. 5. Illinois Adjutant General, Report, 1:15; Frank L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1960), 30. Updegraff was never mustered, and his military record lacked all demographic information; even his age and nativity were not recorded. 6. “G.O. 177,” 4 September 1861, Benjamin L. Wiley Papers, Collection 99, Special Collections, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (hereafter cited as Wiley Papers), “Colonel Ben L. Wiley,” Carbondale Free Press, 12 December 1890. David Phillips hosted Lincoln in Jonesboro during the 1858 senatorial debate with Stephen Douglas. 7. “Colonel Ben L. Wiley,” Carbondale Free Press, 12 December 1890. 8. Helen Edith Sheppley, “Camp Butler in the Civil War Days,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 25, no. 4 (January 1933): 289. 9. “John Apperson,” “Thomas Apperson,” Eighth Census of the United States of Population and Housing, 1860, Cumberland County, IL, Microfilm M653, Roll 172: 118, 698, Washington, DC: NARA, Heritage Quest Online, ProQuest, 1999–2011, http://persi.heritagequestonline.com (hereafter cited as 1860 PS; all census material from Heritage Quest unless otherwise noted); “Apperson, Thomas A.,” State of Illinois, Illinois Public Land Purchase Records [database on-line], Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999, http://www.Ancestry .com; Mumford to Yates, 10 April 1863, McConkey to Fuller, 16 June 1863, Notes to Pages 6–11 248 Administrative Files; “Apperson, T. A.,” Masons of Wabash Lodge No. 179, transcribed by Kim Torp, http://genealogytrails.com/ill/coles/mason3.html. 10. The database of Fifth soldiers consisted of 1845 entries, but only 562 were linked with real estate and personal property values: 437 for the original regiment and 125 for later recruits. Comparisons were done only between original enlistees, since later recruits were difficult to identify in the 1860 census. 11. “Abel H. Seeley,” 1860 PS Marion County, IL, Roll 207: 804; Packard Diary, 22 August 1862; Mumford to Yates, 11 April 1863, Administrative Files. 12. John P. Mann Diary, 19 October 1861, typescript (hereafter TS), John P. Mann Papers, Collection 111, Special Collections, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Packard Diary, 5 October 1862. 13. David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed. Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989), 687. 14. J. G. Bennett, “Our Army Correspondence,” CCA, 4 February 1864, 2. 15. Mann Diary, 26 October 1861, TS. 16. Counties of Cumberland, Jasper, and Richland, Illinois. Historical and Biographical (Chicago: F. A. Battey, 1884), 266–67; “Charles Neecwanger,” 1860 PS Cumberland County, IL, Roll 172: 767. 17. “E. W. Pearson,” 1860 PS Cumberland County, IL, Roll 172: 859. 18. Webster to Fuller, 27 May 1863, McConnell to Fuller, 30 October 1864, Administrative Files; “Lyman Clark,” “Gordon Webster,” 1860 PS Cumberland County, IL, Roll 172: 705, 744. 19. “Thomas McKee,” 1860 PS Coles and Crawford Counties, IL, Roll 171: 82; Packard Diary, 1 April 1862. Pairings were based on the place of residence, surname, age, census information, and material from first-person accounts. 20. Packard Diary, 19 September 1861; “Election Certification,” 14 September 1861, Co. C, Administrative Files. 21. History of Ray County, Missouri (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Co., 1881), 710-11; The History of McLean County, Illinois. . . . (Chicago: W. Le Baron Jr., 1879), 398; Franklin W. Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois 1814–1879 (Chicago: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), 29; “W. P. Withers,” 1860 PS McLean County, IL, Roll 204: 539; Apperson to Fuller, 20 July 1863, McConnell to Fuller, 2 August 1864, Administrative Files. 22. Francis A. Wheelock Diary, passim, Francis A...
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