by Jack Hurst
40 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 246–248; O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 68.
41 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 246–248; Johnson and Buel, Battles and Leaders, 3:724; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 9:447n; O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 68.
42 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 259. The 45 percent angle of ascent comes from War Department official Charles Dana, O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 68.
43 Grant, Memoirs, 358n; Cozzens, Shipwreck, 260.
44 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 261.
45 Ibid., 249–255.
46 Ibid., 262, 392; Johnson and Buel, Battles and Leaders, 3:723; Grant, Memoirs , 357.
47 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 258, 265; O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 276.
48 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 273.
49 Ibid., 272–276.
50 O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 278.
51 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 286, 282.
52 O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 282, 275–276, 278.
53 Ibid., 69.
54 Ibid.
55 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 9:440, 454n, 449.
56 O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 45; Cozzens, Shipwreck, 353, 364, 365.
57 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 369–384.
58 O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 49; Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 9:564.
59 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 9:474n; O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 3, 297.
60 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 387.
61 Cozzens, Shipwreck, 389; O. R. (1), vol. 31, pt. 2, 36; Faust, Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War, 421.
62 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 9:503–504n.
63 Simon, Papers of U. S. Grant, 9:522n, 541.
64 Ibid., 502n.
65 Ibid., 397–398n.
66 Ibid., 475n, 476n.
67 Ibid.
68 Ibid., 476n. Major General David Hunter, who also visited Grant at this time, reported to Halleck on December 14 that he “saw [Grant] almost every moment, except when sleeping, of the three weeks I spent in Chattanooga. I mention these, to you otherwise very unimportant facts, to show you that I had a first-rate opportunity of judging of the man. He is a hard worker, writes his own dispatches and orders, and does his own thinking. He is modest, quiet, never swears, and seldom drinks, as he only took two drinks during the three weeks I was with him. He listens quietly to the opinions of others and then judges promptly for himself; and he is very prompt in the field to avail himself of all the errors of the enemy. He is certainly a good judge of men.” Lagow submitted his resignation on November 18.
EPILOGUE
1 See Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985), 9, for Forrest’s reaction to the appeal to continue fighting. For the Klan tactics’ similarity to prewar intimidation in Tennessee, see Derek Frisby, “The Vortex of Secession: West Tennesseans and the Rush to War,” in Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee, edited by Kent Dollar, Larry Whiteaker, and W. Calvin Dickinson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 46–71; and James B. Jones Jr., “The Reign of Terror of the Safety Committee Has Passed Away Forever”: A History of the Committees of Safety and Vigilance in West and Middle Tennessee (Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 2010).
2 Memphis Daily Appeal, July 6, 1875, 1.
3 Wyeth, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 621.
4 Smith, Grant, 627–628; Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962), 138–139.
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INDEX
Abbeville, Mississippi
Adams, Daniel
Adams, Wirt
African Americans
Forrest’s slaughter of
whipping black soldiers
See also Slaves and slavery
Alcohol. See Drunkenness, Grant’s
Ammen, Jacob
Amphibious approach at Vicksburg
Anderson, Charles W.
Anderson, James Patton
Antietam Creek, Battle of
Anti-Semitism, Grant’s
Appler, Jesse
Arkansas Post assault
Armstrong, Frank
Avery, Isaac
Baird, Absalom
Banks, Nathaniel
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baxter, Nat, Jr.
Baxter’s Bayou
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (fig.)
Bragg succeeding
Confederate retreat from Pittsburg Landing
Corinth
defending Union expansion to the north and west
Emancipation Proclamation
