Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier's Odyssey

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279 Notes Preface 1. Under the Maltese Cross, 382, 383. 2. The exact words Chamberlain spoke that evening at the candlelight gathering were not recorded, but listeners called his speech “an eloquent address.” The passage above is from The Passing of the Armies written by the general years after the war. It is, however, believed to accurately reflect Chamberlain’s sentiments about the disbanding of the army in May 1865. Chapter 1 1. Consumer Price Index, MeasuringWorth.com. Chapter 2 1. David Donald, ed., Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase, 121. 2. George B. McClellan, in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 2:552. 3. Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan—Selected Correspondence 1860–1865, 440. 4. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 544. 5. The capitulation of over twelve thousand men at Harper’s Ferry on September 15, 1862, was the largest in American history until the fall of the Philippines in World War II. 6. Under the Maltese Cross, 71. 7. D. P. Marshall, Company “K” 155th Pa. Volunteer Zouaves, 66, 67. 8. Nil desperandum translates to “Never give up hope.” 9. Marshall, Company “K,” 67. Chapter 3 1. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 570. 2. Marshall, Company “K,” 69. 3. John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, 80. 4. Marshall, Company “K,” 71, 78. 5. Shelby Foote, The Civil War—A Narrative, 1:757. 6. Under the Maltese Cross, 89. 7. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, 217–21. 8. Under the Maltese Cross, 91. Chapter 4 1. James Longstreet,“The Battle of Fredericksburg,” in Battles and Leaders, 3:79. 2. Francis Augustin O’Reilly, The Fredericksburg Campaign, 405. 3. Ibid., 401 4. Under the Maltese Cross, 95. 5. Longstreet, in Battles and Leaders, 3:82. Chapter 5 1. Battles and Leaders, 3:119. 2. U.S. Congress, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 37th Congress , 1863. 3. Marshall, Company “K,” 87. Chapter 6 1. Under the Maltese Cross, 136–38. 2. Ibid., 140. 3. Foote, Civil War, 2:635. Chapter 7 1. The shoes may have existed only in the imagination of Confederate division commander Major General Henry Heth. 2. Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee: A Biography, 3:58–59. 3. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3:345. 4. Union losses exceeded 23,000; Rebel casualties, 28,000. 5. Jeff Shaara, Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America’s Hallowed Ground, 104. 6. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 6:327. 7. Under the Maltese Cross, 150. 8. Ibid., 150, 151. 9. Ibid., 153. 10. An engineer on Warren’s staff, he became the chief engineer for the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after the war. 11. Under the Maltese Cross, 174. 12. Marshall, Company “K,” 112, 113. 13. McClelland says his belongings went “higher than Gilroy’s Kite” in this letter. “Gilroy” is a derivation of the name “Gilderoy,” a seventeenth-century Scots robber who, according to legend, was hanged so high at his execution that he resembled a kite in the air. The nineteenth-century expression to indicate extreme height was “higher than Gilderoy’s—or Gilroy’s—Kite.” Chapter 8 1. Under the Maltese Cross, 225–26. Chapter 9 1. Foote, Civil War, 2:793. 2. T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, 288. 3. Foote, Civil War, 2:876. 4. George Meade, Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, 158. 5. Mason W. Tyler, Recollections of the Civil War, 127. 6. Marshall, Company “K,” 133. 280 Notes to Pages 52–156 Chapter 10 1. Under Lincoln’s proclamation, those secessionists who took an oath of loyalty to the Union, supported the Emancipation Proclamation, and swore their allegiance with their signatures would be accepted back as U.S. citizens. When 10 percent of voters from a state accepted the amnesty requirements, the state would be recognized as a functioning body within the Union. Lincoln believed that secession was illegal and that the Confederate states had never left the Union; thus, the states would be returning to their proper relationship with the federal government, not being readmitted to the Union. 2.“Delightful Task! To rear the tender Thought To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh Instruction o’er the Mind, To breathe th’ enlivening Spirit and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing Breast...