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>> 173 Notes Notes to the Introduction 1. John Brobst, letter to M. E. Englesby dated April 15, 1864. John F. Brobst Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin. 2. Emil Rosenblatt, Anti-Rebel: The Civil War Letters of Wilbur Fisk (New York: Crotonon -Hudson, 1983), 68. 3. Barbara B. Smith and Nina B. Baker, “Burning Rails as We Pleased”: The Civil War Letters of William Garrigues Bentley, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2004), 110. 4. James M. McPherson, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 58. Notes to Chapter 1 1. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. (Hereafter as Official Records) , Series I, Volume 24, 234. 2. Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 7–12. 3. See Eric T. Dean, Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam and the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) for an excellent comparison of mental duress and its impact in Civil War and Vietnam War veterans. 4. Mary E. Kellogg, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day-by-Day Record of Sherman ’s March to the Sea (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), 135. 5. John Follmer, diary entry for July 7, 1863,John Follmer Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 6. Mark E. Dunkelman, Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004), 181. 7. Isaac Abraham, letter to brother dated September 21, 1864. Civil War letters of James, Isaac, and William Abraham and James Sturgis, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 8. Kellogg, 370. 9. Kathleen Kroll and Charles Moran, “The White Papers,” Massachusetts Review Volume 18, Summer 1976, 266. 249. 10. William C. Niesen, “The Consequence of Grandeur: A Union Soldier Writes of the Atlanta Campaign,” Atlanta History, Volume 33, Fall 1989, 13. 11. Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989), 81. 12. Brobst Papers, letters to wife dated January 19, May 12, and September 15, 1864. 174 > 175 34. Wayne Mahood, Charlie Mosher’s Civil War: From Fair Oaks to Andersonville with the Plymouth Pilgrims (85th N.Y. Infantry) (Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1994), 292–293. 35. Karla J. Husby, Under Custer’s Command: The Civil War Journal of James Henry Avery (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2000), 156. 36. Peter H. Buckingham, All’s for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 63. 37. William E. Hughes, The Civil War Papers of Lt. Colonel Newton T. Colby, New York Infantry (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003), 254–256. 38. Mark A. Howe, Home Letters of General Sherman (New York: Scribner’s, 1909), 232. 39. Barbara B. Smith and Nina B. Baker, “Burning Rails as We Pleased”: The Civil War Letters of William Garrigues Bentley, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2004), 133–134. 40. Rosenblatt, 69. 41. Jacob Bechtel, letter to wife dated August 23, 1863, Jacob Bechtel Papers, National Park Service, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, VA. 42. Henry Heisler, letter to wife dated September 12, 1864, Henry C. Heisler Papers, Library of Congress (Manuscript Division), Washington, DC. 43. David W. Blight, When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992), 212. 44. John Burrill, letter to parents dated August 12, 1862,John H. Burrill Papers, Civil War Times Illustrated Collection, United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA. 45. George Wagner, letter to friend dated January 20, 1862,George E. Wagner Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. 46. Blight, 298. 47. Jenny O’Leary and Harvey H. Jackson, “The Civil War Letters of Captain Daniel O’Leary, U.S.A.,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 77, Summer 1979, 183. 48. Smith and Baker, 143. 49. Jedediah Mannis and Galen R. Wilson, Bound to Be a Soldier: The Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861–1864 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 36. 50. James Dunn, letters to wife dated July 5 and August 2, 1863, James L. Dunn Papers, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 51. Ruth L. Silliker, The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer (Camden...