Notes
Notes Introduction 1. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988); Edward L. Ayers, What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 103–30. Also see McPherson’s most recent work, an examination of Lincoln as the commander-in-chief who developed (in fact, created) the executive war power as the vital instrument to turn the nation toward a total war against slavery. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief (New York: Penguin Press, 2008). 2. Aaron Sheehan-Dean has produced an excellent summation of this work. Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 1–8. Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), 113–25. 3. Stuart McConnell, Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic , 1865–1900 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 177–78. Much of this interpretation derives from the studies of Civil War literature produced by Thomas Leonard and Daniel Aaron. As well, in his classic study of wartime courage Gerald Linderman asserted that Union veterans deliberately misrepresented their war. Thomas C. Leonard, Above the Battle: War-Making in America from Appomattox to Versailles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973); Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973); Gerald F. Linderman , Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1987). 148 Notes to Pages 2–7 4. David W. Blight, Race and Reunion:The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001), 383–91. Also see a recent inclusion of his thesis in a basic undergraduate reader. David W. Blight, “Quarrel Forgotten or a Revolution Remembered?,” in The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader, ed. Larry M. Logue and Michael Barton (New York: New York University Press, 2007), 407–23. Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 29–68. 5. John R. Neff, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), 8–9. Also see Andre Fleche,“‘Shoulder to Shoulder as ComradesTried’: Black and White Union Veterans and Civil War Memory,” Civil War History 51, no. 2 (2005): 175–201; M. Keith Harris, “Slavery, Emancipation, and Veterans of the Union Cause: Commemorating Freedom in the Era of Reconciliation, 1885–1915,” Civil War History 53, no. 3 (2007): 264–90; Joan Waugh, “Ulysses S. Grant, Historian,” in The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, ed. Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 5–38; William A. Blair, Cities of the Dead: Contesting Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1914 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 1–10. 6. See the excellent discussion of the issue of total war in the exchange of articles found in Stig Förster and Jörg Nagler, eds., On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Also see John Y. Simon and Michael E. Stevens, eds., New Perspectives on the Civil War: Myths and Realities of the National Conflict (Madison, WI: Madison House, 1998); Mark E. Neely Jr., The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). 7. David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2007), 1–20. 8. Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). 9. I used Charles Dornbusch as my guide for published sources on the individual infantry regiments, artillery batteries, and cavalry units. A complete list of the regimental histories and memoirs consulted is included as an appendix . C[harles] E. Dornbusch, Regimental Publications and Personal Narratives : Northern States, vol. 1 of Military Bibliography of the Civil War (1961– 1962; repr., New York: Arno Press, 1971); and volume 2 of the same series, Notes to Pages 8–11 149 Regimental Publications and Personal Narratives: Southern, Border, and Western States and Territories; Federal Troops (1967; repr., New York: New York Public Library, 1994). 10. W[illiam] A...
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