The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi

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321 {Notes Abbreviations ADAH Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery AHC Atlanta History Center, Atlanta AL Abraham Lincoln ALPL Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill. BC Bowdoin College, Special Collections and Archives, Brunswick, Maine BGSU Bowling Green State University, Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio CHS Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Conn-­ HS Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford CU Cornell University, Rare and Manuscript Collection, Ithaca, N.Y. CWM College of William and Mary, Special Collections Research Center, Williamsburg, Va. DU Duke University, Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections, Durham, N.C. EU Emory University, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library, Atlanta FHS Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Ky. GDAH Georgia Dept. of Archives and History, Atlanta HQ Headquarters IHS Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis ISL Indiana State Library, Indianapolis JD Jefferson Davis KCPL Knox County Public Library, McClung Collection, Knoxville, Tenn. KHS Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort KMNBP Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Kennesaw, Ga. LC Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. LMU Lincoln Memorial University, Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Harrogate, Tenn. LSU Louisiana State University, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Baton Rouge Mass-­ HS Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston MDAH Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson MHS Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis MOC Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Va. NL Newberry Library, Chicago OR The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. Unless otherwise noted, citations are to 322 Notes to Pages 1–4 series 1. OR citations take the following form: volume number (part number, where applicable):page number. ORN Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894–1922. ORN citations take the same form as OR citations. REL Robert E. Lee SOR Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 100 vols. Wilmington, Del.: Broadfoot, 1995–99. SOR citations take the same form as OR citations. SU Stanford University, Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford, Calif. TSLA Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville UA University of Alabama, William Stanley Hoole Special Collections, Tuscaloosa UAF University of Arkansas, Special Collections, Fayetteville UK University of Kentucky, Audio-­ Visual Archives, Lexington U-­ Mont University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Missoula UNC University of North Carolina, Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill UND University of Notre Dame, Rare Books and Special Collections, South Bend, Ind. UO University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections, Norman US University of the South, Archives and Special Collections, Sewanee, Tenn. USAMHI U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa. UV University of Virginia, Special Collections, Charlottesville UW University of Washington, Special Collections Division, Seattle WHS Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison WTS William Tecumseh Sherman Chapter 1 1. Paludan, “American Civil War,” 1019, 1021–25, 1027, 1030; Hess, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress, 22–26. 2. Cozzens and Girardi, Military Memoirs, 98; J. Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years, 242–43; Scribner, How Soldiers Were Made, 14; Gresham, Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1:141. 3. Chatfield Republican, April 16, 1861, Elkhorn Independent, April 19, 1861, Indianapolis Daily Journal, April 27, 1861, Cincinnati Daily Commercial, May 6, 1861, and Daily Chicago Times, June 12, 1861, all in Perkins, Northern Editorials, 2:741, 747, 814– 15, 828, 849. 4. Williams, Wild Life of the Army, 6; Cox, “War Preparations in the North,” 84–85. 5. Hess, “Mississippi River,” 188. 6. Saxon, Father Mississippi, 213, 249. 7. Ibid., 253–54, 257, 261, 263. 8. Gould, Fifty Years on the Mississippi, 431–33, 438. Notes to Pages 5–10 323 9. Saxon, Father Mississippi, 246–47; Hess, “Mississippi River,” 188–89. 10. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, December 28, 1860, in Perkins, Northern Editorials, 1:401; Speech on Secession, December 18–19, 1860, in Graf and Haskins, Papers of Andrew Johnson, 4:25; Chicago Daily Tribune, December 18, 1860, in Perkins, Northern Editorials, 2:539–40; WTS to Thomas Ewing Sr., December 1, 1860, and WTS to Ellen, December 23, 1860, in Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 13, 25. 11. Hess, “Mississippi River,” 189–90; Cincinnati Daily Gazette, January 14, 1861, Daily Wisconsin (Milwaukee), January 18, 1861, Burlington Daily Hawk-­ Eye, February 8, 1861, and Chicago Daily Tribune, February 25, 1861, all in Perkins, Northern Editorials , 2:543–45, 554, 558. 12. Hess, “Mississippi River,” 194; Buffalo Morning Express, December 24, 1860, Portland Daily Advertiser...