Notes
notes chapter 1 1. susan Kollock to George Jones Kollock, January 6, 1861, Kollock family Papers, collection 470, folder 9, Georgia historical society. alexander a. lawrence, A Present for Mr. Lincoln: The Story of Savannah from Secession to Sherman (Macon, Ga.: ardivan Press, 1961), 11–12. 2. years earlier a heated debate had led little alec to challenge Ben hill to a duel. hill declined, saying it would be unmanly of him to fight a “frail invalid.” John c. inscoe, “hill, Benjamin h.,” in Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, ed. richard n. current (new york: simon and schuster, 1993), 2:771–74. 3. ralph a. Wooster, The Secession Conventions of the South (Princeton, n.J.: Princeton university Press, 1962), 82–83. 4. for a view of southern officers struggling with their hearts and their loyalties, see William s. Dudley, Going South: U.S. Navy Officer Resignations & Dismissals on the Eve of the Civil War (Washington, D.c.: naval history foundation, 1981), 1, 4, 21–26. 5. norman c. Delaney, John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama (Tuscaloosa: The university of alabama Press, 1973), 104–5. 6. albert luria wrote his cousin eliza Moses from Milledgeville that “every corner and crevice in the hall is literally packed.” Mel young, ed., Last Order of the Lost Cause: The Civil War Memoirs of a Jewish Family from the “Old South” (lanham, Md.: university Press of america, 1995), 85. John M. Kell, Recollections of a Naval Life; Including the Cruises of the Confederate Steamers Sumter and Alabama (Washington, D.c.: The neale company, 1900), 134. 7. for descriptions of the secession convention, see ralph Wooster, “The Georgia secession convention,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 40, no. 1 (1956): esp. 30–31. hereinafter, GHQ. The proceedings and acts of the convention are in Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Together with the Ordinances Adopted (Milledgeville, Ga.: Boughton, nisbet, Barnes, and Moore, 1861). hereinafter cited as Proceedings of convention. They are reprinted (in part) in allen D. candler , ed., The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia, vol. 1 (atlanta: charles P. Byrd, state Printer, 1909). 426 / notes to Pages 3–6 8. Derek smith, Civil War Savannah (savannah, Ga.: frederick c. Beil, 1997), 17. 9. Delaney, John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama, 105–6, 108; Munroe d’antignac, Georgia’s Navy, 1861 (Griffin, Ga.: Goen Printing, 1945), 7; Kell, Recollections of a Naval Life, 134, 140. 10. savannah’s francis Bartow guided the army and navy ordinances through to adoption on January 26, just before the convention’s adjournment in Milledgeville. see candler, Confederate Records, 1:377–81, and d’antignac, Georgia’s Navy, 7. 11. Diary of Margaret ann Meta Morris Grimball, January 30, february 10, april 14, 1861, 13, 14, 24, southern historical collection, louis round Wilson library, university of north carolina, chapel hill. hereinafter shc unc. 12. Delaney, John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama, 108–9; D’antignac, Georgia’s Navy, 12. 13. Quoted in Delaney, John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama, 108–9. 14. Morris to edward c. anderson, William Trapmann, and h. s. chisolm, february 9; to anderson, february 11; to a. f. ravenel, february 12; to claghorn & cunningham, february 14; to J. P. Brooks, n.d.; all in collection of Dr. charles Peery, charleston, south carolina. 15. The Gordon, which assistant surgeon robert Gibbes described as “a splendid steamer and very fast,” became a guard boat in the south carolina state navy, then the blockaderunner Theodora. The Carolina became the blockade-runner Kate. each was commanded for several runs by captain Tom lockwood. Typescript of Diary of robert reeve Gibbes, 1861– 1865, april 6, 1861; Morris to ravenel, february 13, 14, 1861, Peery collection, charleston, south carolina. henry c. Wayne to Morris, february 19, 1861, in papers of adjutant General’s office—naval Matters, Georgia Department of archives and history. stephen r. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War (columbia: university of south carolina Press, 1988), 57, 59. 16. lawrence, A Present for Mr. Lincoln, 23. henry Wayne to Morris, february 19, 1861, in adjutant General’s office Papers—naval Matters. c. Bradford Mitchell, ed., Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790–1868: The Lytle-Holdcamper List (staten island, n.y.: steamboat historical society of america; Baltimore: Distributed by the university of Baltimore Press, 1975, hereinafter cited as Lytle’s List), 30, 68, 87. 17. after secession the...
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