5 Yeary, Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, pp. 85, 586.
6 OR 38 (3), p. 373. The list shown on this page is confusing because the 64th Illinois losses are incorrectly placed as “Total” for the brigade. The error appears to be corrected in the “Grand Total” line at the bottom of the list. General Leggett reported the present-for-duty strength of the Army of the Tennessee at 27,593 on July 20 (Leggett, “Battle of Atlanta,” p. 27), but this number apparently included two brigades of men not present on July 22.
7 OR 38 (3), p. 118.
8 OR 38 (3), p. 550; OR 38 (4), p. 653; OR 38 (5), p. 318.
9 Whaley, Forgotten Hero, p. 164.
10 Ibid., pp. 167, 169–70.
11 OR 38 (1), pp. 115–16; OR 38 (3), pp. 28–29; OR 38 (4), p. 316; OR 38 (5), p. 651.
12 T. B. Roy, “General Hardee and the Military Operations Around Atlanta,” p. 367. Roy, Hardee’s chief of staff, claims this oddly exacting figure came from a letter Hardee wrote just two days after the battle, a letter yet to be discovered. The number is so close to the number of 3,297 killed and wounded (captured and missing not included) cited by the Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee for the month of July (see “Letters, Orders and Circulars Sent and Received, Medical Director’s Office, Army of Tennessee,” War Department Collection of Confederate Records, RG 109, NA) to appear more than a coincidence. Perhaps Roy confused the figures when he wrote his piece in 1880. A modern detailed and thorough analysis of Hardee’s total losses on July 22 suggests casualty figures of 4,500 (see Brown, To the Manner Born, pp. 277–78). That estimate is rejected as it appears the modern analysis was victim of a simple mathematical error that counted Walker’s full division loss to that of just one brigade and appears to have overestimated the losses in Bate’s division. Regardless, if the 3,299 is erroneous, a total casualty count for the corps between 3,300 and 3,800 is as close an estimate that can be obtained until more evidence comes to light.
13 OR 38 (3), pp. 733, 741, 748; Maney’s killed and wounded division totals summarized in “Grand Summary of Casualties in Cheatham’s Division,” Cheatham Papers, TSLA.
14 Brown, To the Manner Born, p. 278. This author’s claim of 4,500 losses for Hardee is rejected, and Hardee’s claim of 3,299 is suspicious. See endnote #12 on this page.
15 SOR 7, pp. 119–129; Tower, ed., A Carolinian Goes to War, p. 229.
16 The Third Battle of Winchester (September 19, 1864) and the Battle of Franklin (November 30, 1864) were single-day contests with casualties approaching 9,000 in each battle. Both fell below the number of losses at Atlanta.
17 OR 38 (1), p. 116; OR 38 (3), p. 680.
18 Roy, “General Hardee and the Military Operations Around Atlanta,” p. 367; Buck, Cleburne and His Command, p. 243; OR 38 (3), pp. 740–41.
19 Losson, Tennessee’s Forgotten Warriors, p. 183; Hood, Advance and Retreat, p. 181.
20 Stuart, Iowa Colonels and Regiments, p. 238; Warner, Generals in Blue, p. 535.
21 Stephen Davis, “The General’s Tour—Atlanta Campaign: Hood Fights Desperately,” Blue & Gray Magazine Vol. 6, #6, (August, 1989), p. 26. The enmity between Dodge and Sweeny was long-standing. See Leslie Anders, “Fisticuffs at Headquarters: Sweeny vs. Dodge,” Civil War Times Illustrated, Vol. 15, no. 10 (February, 1977), pp. 8–15.
22 OR 38 (5), p. 266; Castel, Decision in the West, p. 418.
23 Dodge reminiscence reproduced in Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier’s Wife: An Autobiography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913), pp. 171–72; “Address of General W. T. Sherman,” Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the Twentieth Meeting (Cincinnati: Published by the Society, 1893), pp. 471–72.
24 OR 38 (5), p. 272; “A Noble Man,” Los Angeles Times, August 1, 1897.
25 Castel, Decision in the West, pp. 424–36.
26 Sherman to his wife, July 26, 1864, in Simpson and Berlin, eds., Sherman’s Civil War, p. 671.
27 Alexander Spence to his parents, August 10, 1864, in Christ, ed., Getting Used to Being Shot At, p. 97; Daniel, Soldiering in the Army of the Tennessee, pp. 145–46.
28 Hosea Garrett to his uncle, August 5, 1864, Special Collections, Atlanta History Center; Daniel, Soldiering in the Army of the Tennessee, p. 146; Alexander Spence to his parents, August 10, 1864, in Christ, ed., Getting Used to Being Shot At, pp. 97–98.
29 Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs and Selected Letters (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1990), p. 613.
30 Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 262, 264; Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, eds., Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), p. 441.
31 Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing, 1882), pp. 434–35.
32 David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 529.
33 Quote in OR 38 (5), p. 777. These famous six words are embodied within a 350-word dispatch from Sherman to Major General Henry Halleck.
34 Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life Vol. 2 (Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2008), p. 688; Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 297.
35 Special Orders No. 212, September 20, 1864, Logan Papers, LOC; Ecelbarger, Black Jack Logan, pp. 191–95.
36 Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 354.
37 “Atlanta on Canvass,” Atlanta Constitution, October 20, 1885; Wilbur G. Kurtz, The Atlanta Cyclorama: The Story of the Famed Battle of Atlanta (City of Atlanta, 1954), pp. 24–25.
38 “What You Will Find at the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum,” and “Painting the Cyclorama,” printed by the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum, Atlanta, Ga.
39 Kurtz, The Atlanta Cyclorama, pp. 13–23. Traditionally, this cyclorama supposedly debuted in 1887, but contemporary evidence easily refuted this to place its opening to July of 1886 in Minnesota. See “A Great War Picture: The Panorama of Atlanta Recently Placed on Exhibition in Minneapolis” (Albert Lea, Minn.) Freeport County Standard, July 21, 1886
40 Kurtz, The Atlanta Cyclorama, pp. 24, 27. Tradition claims that General Logan commissioned the painting for $43,000 to boost his vice presidential candidacy in 1884. This is easily refuted by the fact that Logan was too strapped financially for such an extravagant expense and that no one would reasonably believe that the cyclorama could be studied and painted in the few months of Logan’s vice presidential candidacy in 1884 (he was not selected on the ticket with James G. Blaine until May and the painting would have done little to aid him unless it was released before the end of the summer). A more reasonable “correction” of the tradition is that Logan’s wealthy supporters commissioned the work to support a potential presidential bid in 1888. Contrary to another tradition, Logan was alive when the cyclorama was first put on display in Minneapolis, but no evidence exists that he ever saw the completed work.
41 “Talk of the Day,” Atlanta Constitution, February 4, 1889; “Atlanta’s Battle Field. Union Officers Exploring the Old Lines,” Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, February 9, 1889.
42 “Atlanta’s Battle Field. Union Officers Exploring the Old Lines,” Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, February 9, 1889.
43 The McPherson marker standing today is markedly different from the one placed by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee in 1877. The base is more elaborate than the original and no cannonball plugs the upward facing cannon barrel. For a picture of the original, see Thomas H. Martin, Atlanta and Its Builders: A Comprehensive History of the Gate City of the South Vol. 1 (Atlanta, Ga.: Century Memorial Publishing Co., 1902), p. 402. The monument that stands today may be an entirely different cannon barrel than the 1877 original. The William Walker monument was placed based on one eyewitness testimony of his death, a suspect account challenged by several contemporary sources that place his death an hour or so later than tradition and with Gist’s brigade (near the current Walker Park in East Atlanta). For the story of the monument see Kurtz, “Civil
War Days in Georgia: Major-General W. H. T. Walker,” Atlanta Constitution Magazine, July 27, 1930.
44 “What You Will Find at the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum,” and “Painting the Cyclorama,” printed by the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum, Atlanta, Ga.; “The Battle of Atlanta Is Here,” Atlanta Constitution, February 12, 1892.
45 “The Blue and Gray,” Atlanta Constitution, July 23, 1894; “Firing of 11 Bombs Will Mark Battle of Atlanta Observance,” Atlanta Constitution, July 22, 1939; “Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh Marvel at Cyclorama,” Atlanta Constitution, December 16, 1939.
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