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INTRODUCTION 1. Murray, Discipline, 7; United States War Department, Basic Field Manual, 1941, 1. CHAPTER 1 1. Basler, Collected Works, 4:249–61. 2. Ibid., 262. 3. Ibid., 263. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid., 266. 6. Ibid., 271; Charleston Mercury, quoted in Long, Civil War Day by Day, 46. 7. Grimsley, Hard Hand, 8–10; Basler, Collected Works, 4:272. 8. Basler, Collected Works, 4:316–17. It is believed that the letter from Lincoln to Seward setting out these points was never delivered but that the president did convey his points verbally. 9. Grimsley, Hard Hand, 49, citing General Order No. 3, OR, 8:370. 10. Engle, Don Carlos Buell, 1–17, 75, 119. 11. Ibid., 50–51, 64–65. 12. Ibid., 18, 48–49, citing McClellan to Fredericka English, January 1, 1853, and Mahan to McClellan, August 3, 1861, McClellan Papers, LOC. 13. Ibid., 117. 14. Ibid., 48, 88, 94. 15. Grimsley, Hard Hand, 63–64. 16. Diary of Edward L. Witman, Co. F., 25th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Richard Johnston Collection. 17. Grimsley, Hard Hand, 14–16. 18. Ibid., 22. Notes CHAPTER 2 1. Turchin, Chickamauga, 5; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886; Parry, “Turchin,” 45; Seaton, Crimean War, 25; Alston, Education, 33, 35. Novocherkassk, founded in 1805, is today a city of about 188,000 people on the Askai River, about twenty miles northeast of Rostov-on-Don. 2. Quoted in Miller, Miliutin, 96. 3. Brooks, Reform, 71; Miller, Miliutin, 94–95. 4. Parry, “Turchin,” 45; Curtiss, Russian Army, 114–15. 5. Parry, “Turchin,” 45–46; Curtiss, Russian Army, 77–78. 6. Deak, Lawful Revolution, 301; Lincoln, Nicholas I, 314; Curtiss, Russian Army, 220. 7. Deak, Lawful Revolution, 292, 306; Lincoln, Nicholas I, 315. 8. Curtiss, Russian Army, 143–44, 311. 9. Lee, Crowds and Soldiers, 194. 10. Deak, Lawful Revolution, 305. 11. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886. 12. Van Dyke, Military Doctrine, 20–23, 34–35; Miller, Miliutin, 4–5. 13. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886. He learned his lessons imperfectly. The short book he wrote near the end of the American Civil War, Military Rambles, is no more than its title suggests and less than the intended analysis of Union strategy, not any sort of coherent “history of the present.” See Turchin, Military Rambles. 14. Turchin, Chickamauga, 132. 15. Turchin, Military Rambles, 20. 16. Curtiss, Russian Army, 107; Brooks, Reform, 65, 73n40; Seaton, Crimean War, 24; Van Dyke, Military Doctrine, 34; Lincoln, Nicholas I, 9. 17. Curtiss, Crimean War, 283; Malloy, Miliutin, 91; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886. 18. Curtiss, Crimean War, 284, 287–88, 296, 327, 419–20. 19. Dela¤eld, Report, 24. 20. Ibid., 36; Mordecai, Military Commission; McClellan, Armies of Europe; Skelton, American Profession, 241. 21. Dela¤eld, Report, 36; Curtiss, Crimean War, 327; Van Dyke, Military Doctrine, 37–38; Riasanovsky, Nicholas I, 41. 22. Malloy, Miliutin, 94; Brooks, Reform, 80–81. 23. Parry, “Turchin,” 46; East, “Russian General,” 121. 24. McElligott, “Diary of Nadine Turchin,” 27, 30, 39, 44, 65–66. 25. Ibid., 89. 26. Ibid., 43. 27. Chicago Tribune, June 24, 1861. 28. McElligott, “Diary of Nadine Turchin,” 23; Parry, “Turchin,” 45; Curtiss, Russian Army, 192; McClellan, Armies of Europe, 104. 29. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886; Parry, “Turchin,” 47; Slotten, Patronage, 168–70. 30. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886; Slotten, Patronage, 128, 141–42. 250 / Notes to Pages 18–25 31. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886; Slotten, Patronage, 99, 169. 32. Parry, “Turchin,” 47; Stover, Illinois Central, 1, 62; McElligott, “Diary of Nadine Turchin,” 28. 33. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1886; Stover, Illinois Central, 87; Goodrich to Trumbull, June 23, 1862, Trumbull Papers, LOC. 34. Chicago Tribune, June 25, Sept. 25, Oct. 18, 1861; Turchin to Ray, Sept. 8, 1861, Ray Papers, Huntington Library. While governor of Massachusetts, Banks was the titular commander in chief of the state’s ¤ne militia, to which he personally apparently paid little or no attention. See Harrington, Fighting Politician, 16, 41–53, 54. 35. ChicagoTribune, June 10, 1897; Wendt, Chicago Tribune, 46, 49–50; Kinsley, Chicago Tribune, 1:35–36; NCAB, 29:327. 36. Bross, “What I Remember,” 1, 29–31; Wendt, Chicago Tribune, 25, 86; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 28, 1890; Pierce, Chicago, 413. 37. Wendt, Chicago Tribune, 43, 49–50. 38. Boorstein, Reader, 107, 109. 39. Chicago Tribune, Jan. 28, 1890; NCAB, 29:327; Medill, however, was not immediately impressed. See Wendt, Chicago Tribune, 45–46. 40. Miller, City of the Century, 89–90; Bross, “What I Remember,” 1; Boorstein, Reader, 108. 41. Medill to...
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