by John Waugh
43. Carlton McCarthy, “Detailed Minutia of Soldier Life,” Paper No. 6 SHSP 7 (1879), pp. 176–77.
44. Gibbon, Personal Recollections of the Civil War, p. 332. Also see Porter, “The Surrender at Appomattox Court House,” p. 746.
45. Lovell, “With Lee after Appomattox,” p. 42.
46. Gibbon, Personal Reminiscences of the Civil War, p. 348.
The Wind That Shook the Corn
1. Jackson, Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson, p. 39.
2. George B. McClellan, Oration by Maj.-Gen. McClellan (New York: Sheldon & Co., 1864), p. 14.
3. Ibid., pp. 16–19. The scene is described in an unidentified news report of 16 June 1864, in the Richard Delafield Papers, U.S. Military Academy Library.
4. Quoted in Edward Carlisle Boynton, History of West Point, and Its Military Importance during the American Revolution; and the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863), p. 219. Boynton was a member of the class of 1846. He graduated twelfth and served as adjutant and quartermaster at West Point through the Civil War years and beyond.
5. Morrison, “The Best School in the World,” p. 15.
6. Young, Around the World with General Grant, vol. 2, pp. 352–53.
7. Maury, Recollections of a Virginian, p. 229.
8. New York Tribune, 14 December 1861.
9. Harper’s Weekly, 17 January 1863.
10. W. G. Wheaton to Lyman Trumbull, 9 January 1862, T. Harry Williams, “The Attack upon West Point during the Civil War,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 25 (March 1939), pp. 498–99.
11. Congressional Globe, 37th Cong., 1st sess., p. 89.
12. For a further discussion of the political aspect, see Williams, “The Attack on West Point during the Civil War,” pp. 495–96.
13. The figures are from Ellsworth Eliot, Jr., West Point in the Confederacy (New York: G. A. Baker & Co., 1941), p. xii; and U.S. Military Academy, Centennial of the United States Military Academy vol. 1, p. 488.
14. U.S. Senate, Report of the Secretary of War, 37th Cong., 1st sess., 1 July 1861, S. Doc. 1, pp. 27–28.
15. Congressional Globe, 37th Cong., 2d sess., pp. 164–65.
16. Ibid., 1st sess., p. 180.
17. Ibid., 2d sess., p. 200.
18. Ibid., 1st sess., p. 111.
19. Cullum, Biographical Register, vol. 1, p. 322, p. 324.
20. John Tidball said these things about Mahan in Morrison, “Getting through West Point,” p. 322.
21. Truman Seymour, Military Education: A Vindication of West Point and the Regular Army, republication of a letter in the Army and Navy Journal, 24 September 1864, pp. 3–4, p. 7.
22. Besides Williams’s “The Attack on West Point during the Civil War,” see another excellent, more recent discussion by Lori A. Lisowski, “The Future of West Point: Senate Debates on the Military Academy during the Civil War,” Civil War History 34 (March 1988), pp. 5–21.
23. Schaff, The Spirit of Old West Point, p. 140, pp. 251–53.
24. Richard Taylor, “The Last Confederate Surrender,” SHSP 3 (1877), p. 158.
25. James R. Chalmers, “Forrest and His Campaigns,” SHSP 7 (1879), p. 454.
26. Strother, “Personal Recollections of the War,” p. 581.
27. Isaac Newton Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, 6th ed. (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1893), p. 300.
28. Charles Ellet, Jr., The Army of the Potomac and its Mismanagement (Washington: L. Towers & Co., 1861), p. 13.
29. John G. Walker, “Jackson’s Capture of Harper’s Ferry,” Battles and Leaders, vol. 2, pp. 605–6.
30. O.R., ser. 1, vol. 11, pt. 3, p. 456.
31. Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy, p. 146.
32. Walker, History of the Second Army Corps, p. 138.
33. Palfrey, The Antietam and Fredericksburg, p. 119.
34. Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, p. 228.
35. Ellet, The Army of the Potomac and Its Mismanagement, p. 16.
36. Young, Around the World with General Grant, vol. 2, pp. 216–17.
37. Imboden, “Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah,” p. 297.
38. McGuire and Christian, The Confederate Cause, p. 208, pp. 212–13.
39. Nathan Kimball, “Fighting Jackson at Kernstown,” Battles and Leaders, vol. 2, p. 310.
40. M. Quad [pseud] in “Notes and Queries,” SHSP 10 (1882), p. 334.
41. Tidball, “Getting through West Point,” typescript, Tidball Papers.
42. Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, pp. 62–93.
43. Opie, A Rebel Cavalryman with Lee, Stuart, and Jackson, p. 139.
44. Townsend, Rustics in Rebellion, p. 216.
45. Casier, Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, p. 154.
46. Hill, “The Real Stonewall Jackson,” p. 628.
47. Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, p. 235.
48. Dictionary of American Biography, s.v. “Jackson, Thomas Jonathan.”
49. Young, Around the World with General Grant, vol. 2, pp. 210–11.
50. Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, p. 236; Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, p. 454; Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, p. 91; Young, Around the World with General Grant, vol. 2, pp. 211–12.
51. Preston, “Personal Reminiscences of Stonewall Jackson,” p. 927.
52. Douglas’s account of the day is in I Rode with Stonewall, pp. 176–77. McClellan’s speech is reported in the Hagerstown (MD) Mail, 5 June 1885.
53. Michie, General McClellan, p. 458.
54. Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, p. 178.
55. Sears, George B. McClellan, p. 401; Maury, Recollections of a Virginian, p. 60; Gardner, “Memoirs,” p. 8.
Epilogue
1. G. W. Tucker, “Death of General A. P. Hill,” SHSP 11 (1883), p. 565; “Further Details of the Death of General A. P. Hill,” SHSP 12 (1884), p. 184; Guild, “Journey to and from Appomattox,” p. 11.
2. Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, p. 262.
3. Davis and Hoffman, The Confederate General vol. 1, p. 5.
4. Noyes, “Biographical Sketch of Maj.-Gen. John G. Foster,” p. 343.
5. Earl Whitmore, “Introduction,” Water Color and Drawings by Brevet Major General Truman Seymour, USMA 1846, published on the occasion of an exhibit of Seymour’s work, West Point, NY, p. 1974.
6. R. A. Brock, “General Burkitt Davenport Fry,” SHSP 18 (1890), p. 286–87; Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, 4 vols. (Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1921), vol. 3, p. 619.
7. P. D. Stephenson, “Defence of Spanish Fort: On Mobile Bay—Last Great Battle of the War,” SHSP 39 (1914), p. 119.
8. Richmond Dispatch, 12 January 1900.
9. Pickett, Heart of a Soldier, pp. 10–11; John S. Mosby, The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, ed. Charles Wells Russell (1917; reprint, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959), p. 381; Pickett, Pickett and His Men, p. 425.
10. Cullum, Biographical Register, vol. 2, p. 264.
11. Pickett, Pickett and His Men, p. xiii.
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