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Notes A B B R E V I AT I O N S CSR Compiled Service Record G.O. General Order LR Letters Received LS Letters Sent NA National Archives, Washington, D.C. OR U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 131 vols. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1880–1901). All citations are to Series 1, unless otherwise noted. ORN U.S. Navy Department, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, 31 vols. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1894–1927). All citations are to Series 1. ORS Janet B. Hewitt et al., eds., Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 100 vols. (Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Press, 1994–2001). All citations are to Series 2, unless otherwise noted. RG National Archives Record Group RG 15—Records of the Veterans Administration RG 24—Naval Records RG 29—Census Bureau Records RG 45—Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library RG 92—Quartermaster General’s Office Records RG 94—Adjutant General’s Office Records RG 105—Records of the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands RG 109—Confederate Records RG 123—Records of the Court of Claims RG 153—Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General RG 217—Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury RG 233—Records of the House of Representatives RG 249—Records of the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners RG 366—Records of Civil War Special Agencies of the Treasury Department RG 393—Records of the United States Army Continental Commands, 1821– 1920 S.O. Special Order TSLA Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn. U.S.C.H.A. United States Colored Heavy Artillery U.S.C.I. United States Colored Infantry U.S.C.L.A. United States Colored Light Artillery P R E FA C E 1. Sean Michael O’Brien, In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson’s Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003), 149; Paul Foos, A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-American War (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002), 126; Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn, Indian Wars, 2nd ed. (New York: American Heritage, 1985), 222–225; Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen Soldiers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 352–353; Gerald F. Linderman, The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience in World War II (New York: Free Press, 1997), 121–137; James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 1998), passim. See New York Times, November 13, 1999, A5, regarding an alleged massacre of Koreans at No Gun Ri in 1950. 2. On this matter, see Weymouth T. Jordan and Gerald W. Thomas, “Massacre at Plymouth : April 20, 1864,” North Carolina Historical Review 72 (April 1995): 181. C H A P T E R O N E . T H E F O RT ’S B E G I N N I N G S 1. Nathaniel C. Hughes Jr. and Roy P. Stonesifer Jr., The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993), 2, 39–42, 142–146, 157–160; William H. Russell, My Diary North and South, ed. Fletcher Pratt (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 162; William G. Stevenson, Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army (New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr, 1862), 62. 2. OR, 52 (pt. 2):63, 69, 90; Hughes and Stonesifer, 160–172; Charles McCormick to Perceval Newman, June 2, 1861, Army of Tennessee Papers, TSLA. 3. Hughes and Stonesifer, chap. 6; Joseph T. Glatthaar, “The Common Soldier of the Civil War,” in New Perspectives on the Civil War: Myths and Realities of the National Conflict, ed. John Y. Simon and Michael E. Stevens (Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1998), 120; James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrade: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), viii. 4. Craig L. Symonds, Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War (Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 1997), 21–24; Memphis Appeal, May 29, 1861; Gideon Pillow to ?, n.d., 1861, Goodman Papers, Memphis and Shelby County Public Library; John L. T. Snead to Gideon Pillow, June 7, 1861, Gratz Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia , Pa.; J. G. Law, “Diary of a Confederate Soldier,” Southern Historical Society...
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