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Robert Alexander 141 Notes CHAPTER 1 1. Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy if the Civil War: Meditations on the Centennial (New York: Random House, 1961),81. 2. Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature ifthe American Civil War (1962; reprint, foreword by C. Vann Woodward, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984), xiii-xiv. 3. Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Civil War: Compiled and Editedfrom Published and Unpublished Sources by Walter Lowerifels, with the Assistance ifNan Braymer (New York: Knopf, 1961),3. 4. Ibid., 14. 5. Associated Press dispatch, quoted in Elijah Avey, The Capture and Execution if John Brown (1906; reprint, Chicago: Afro-Am Press, 1969),69-70. 6. Walt Whitman, diary entry, December 26, 1864, quoted in Whitman, Memoranda dun'ng the War [and] Death ifAbraham Lincoln (1875; reprint, edited by Roy P. Basler, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962), 17. 7. Whitman to James Redpath, October 21, 1864, in Whitman, Walt Whitman's Civil War, 10-11. 8. Edmund N. Hatcher, ed., The Last Four Weeks if the War (Columbus, Ohio: Cooperative Publishing, 1892), iv. This book contains unattributed extracts from various Northern and Southern newspapers. 9. Mary Chesnut, The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries, edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 4-5. 10. Whitman, Walt Whitman's Civil War, 16-1"7. 11. Walt Whitman, "Origins of Attempted Secession," in Specimen Days and Collect (1882-83; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1995),260--61. 142 NOT E S 12. Walt Whitman, "The Real War Will Never Get in the Books," in Specimen Days, 80--81. 13. Ibid, 81. CHAPTER 2 1. Mary Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981),370. This was originally published in 1905 as A Diaryfrom Dixie. 2. G. Moxley Sorrel, Recollections ofa Confederate Staff Officer (1905; reprint, of 1959 ed., edited by Bell Irvin Wiley, Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing, 1987), 132. 3. Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-86), 2:177-85. 4. C[harles] C. Coffin, "Late Scenes in Richmond," Atlantic Monthly 15 (June 1865): 748-49. 5. Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, 607. 6. Walt Whitman, "A Night Battle, over a Week Since," in Specimen Days, 35. 7. Rufus R. Dawes to his wife, May 3-8eptember 1, 1864, in Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers (1890; reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1984), 249-99. 8. Alexander Gardner, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, 2 vols. (1866; reprint, 2 vols. in 1, introduction by E. F. Bleiler, New York: Dover Publications, 1959), commentary to plates 77 and 83. 9. Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, 114. to. William Clark Corson to Jennie Hill Caldwell, July 11, 1864, in Corson, My Dear Jennie: A Collection ofLove Lettersfrom a Conflderate Soldier to his Fiancee during the Period 1861-1865, edited by Blake W. Corson (Richmond, Va.: Dietz Press, 1982), 119-20. 11. Unknown to Constance Cary Harrison, quoted in Mrs. Burton [Constance Cary] Harrison, Recollections, Grave and Gay (New York: Scribner's, 1911), 151. 12. Dr. Henry Alexander White quoted in John B. Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War (1904; reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1985),419. 13. John Gibbon, Personal Recollections ofthe Civil War (1928; reprint, introduction by Don Russell, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1978),291. 14. Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1895), 115-16 (quotation). Robert Alexander 143 15. Grant, Personal Memoirs, 2:424. 16. Andrew A. Humphreys, The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65 (1883; reprint, introduction by Chris Calkins, Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing, 1989),327. 17. Grant, Personal Memoirs, 2:439. 18. Coffin, "Late Scenes," 749-50. 19. Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, (1897; reprint, [Alexandria, Va.J: TimeLife Books, 1981),429 (quotation). 20. Philip Cheek and Mair Pointon, History of the Sauk County Riflemen: Known as Company ':4," Sixth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865 (1909; reprint, introduction by Alan T. Nolan, Gaithersburg, Md.: Butternut Press, 1984), 159. 21. Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, March 31, 1865, in U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901), ser. 1, vol. 46, pt. 3, p. 380 (hereafter cited as Official Records...