Coming Fury, Volume 1 (84 page)
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Authors: Bruce Catton
2.
Sarah Ellen Blackwell,
A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll
, Vol. I, 77–79; Russell, 168–70; Albert Gallatin Riddle,
Recollections of War Times
, 48–51.
3.
O.R., Vol. II, 316.
4.
Ibid, 747–53.
5.
Beauregard’s report, ibid, 497; report of M. L. Bonham, 519; Davis to Adjutant General Cooper, 987;
Roman,
Military Operations
, Vol. I, 111.
6.
Roman, Vol. I, 114; Davis,
Rise and Fall
, Vol. I, 352–53; Alexander, 49. Alexander was present at the conference; he identifies the staff officer as Major R. C. Hill, adding: “Nothing that he had ever done had justified his nickname, but it arose from something peculiar in his eye, tones and manner, all suggestive of suppressed excitement.”
7.
This writer is strongly inclined to agree with Johnston’s conclusion (
Narrative of Military Operations
, 60–61): “Considering the relative strength of the belligerents on the field, the Southern people could not reasonably have expected greater results from their victory than those accomplished: the defeat of the invasion of Virginia, and the preservation of the capital of the Confederacy.” In the autumn of 1861 Johnston wrote to Davis listing the reasons why his army did not advance on Washington: “The apparent firmness of the U.S. troops at Centreville, which checked our pursuit—The strong forces occupying the works near Georgetown, Arlington & Alexandria—The certainty, too, that General Patterson, if needed, would reach Washington with his army of more than 30,000 sooner than we could—& the condition & inadequate means of the army in ammunition, provision & transportation, prevented any serious thoughts of advancing against the capital.” (Letter to President Davis, Nov. 10, 1861, in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Manuscript Department, Duke University Library.) In this explanation Johnston, to be sure, greatly overstates the “firmness” of the Federals at Centreville and the size of Patterson’s army, but the other obstacles were very real. Jubal Early wrote after the war that “it was utterly impossible for any army to have captured Washington by immediate pursuit,” pointing out that even if a pursuit had been made “it would have been very difficult to cross the Potomac at all.” (
Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States
, 40.)
8.
The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman
, Vol. IV, 32–36. It should be borne in mind that although Whitman presented a graphic and apparently authentic account of the post-battle scene in Washington, he himself was not an eyewitness.
9.
The figures are the best estimate this writer can make after examining the varying totals given in different sources. See
Battles & Leaders
, Vol. I, 194–95; O.R., Vol. II, 327, 570, and Vol. LI, 17–19; Thomas L. Livermore,
Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America
, 77; Frederick Phisterer,
Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States
, 213.
10.
Nicolay & Hay, Vol. IV, 365–66; New York
Tribune
, July 21 and 22, announcing a great Union victory, and July 23 with editorial lamentations.
11.
Horace Bushnell, “Reverses Needed. A Discourse Delivered on the Sunday after the Disaster of Bull Run, in the North Church, Hartford,” 8.
12.
Nicolay & Hay, Vol. IV, 352–54;
E. D. Townsend,
Anecdotes of the Civil War
, 58–59; John G. Nicolay, letters to Mrs. Nicolay dated July 21 and July 23, 1861, in the Nicolay Papers, Library of Congress.
13.
O.R., Vol. II, 756; Nicolay & Hay, Vol. IV, 357, 368; Basler, Vol. IV, 457–58.
14.
Stanton to Buchanan, July 26, 1861, in the Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
15.
Richmond During the War; Four Years of Personal Observation
, by “a Richmond Lady” who seems to have been Mrs. Sallie A. Putnam, 63; Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States, Vol. I, 275–76; E. A. Pollard,
The First Year of the War
, 116; O.R., Vol. II, 574; Moore’s
Rebellion Record
, Vol. II, Documents, 111.
16.
Davis,
Rise and Fall
, Vol. I, 443; letter of Johnston to Davis, Aug. 3, 1861, in the Joseph E. Johnston Papers, Duke University; Mrs. Chesnut’s Diary, 92.
17.
R. E. Lee, in a letter to a relative, July 27; mss. on desposit in the Maryland Historical Society.
18.
De Leon,
Four Years in Rebel Capitals
, 123–24.
19.
Mrs. Chesnut’s Diary, 88; letter of T. R. R. Cobb, in Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXVIII, 288.
20.
Letter of Sullivan Bullen to Sarah Shumway Bullen, July 14, 1861, in the Chicago Historical Society.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography for this volume, prepared by E. B. Long, consists of four parts. I. Resources. The libraries, historical societies, archives, colleges, universities, battlefields, forts, and other institutions that contributed to this volume. (Others will be named in later volumes.) Also this stands as grateful acknowledgment and recognition of the many persons who aided us in these places at the time of our visits. II. Primary manuscript collections made use of for this book. III. Newspapers. IV. Books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
I:
Resources
The persons listed herein were those associated with these institutions at the time of our visit.
Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago. Ralph G. Newman, Margaret April, and Richard Clark.
Adjutant General’s Office, State of Louisiana, Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, La., Thomas Harrison.
Alabama State Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Ala., Peter Brannon.
Annan, David, H., Chicago, Ill., private collection.
Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Ark., J. H. Atkinson, Orville W. Taylor, Francis I. Gwaltney.
Armstrong, Loring, Elmhurst, Ill., private collection.
Atlanta Historical Society, Atlanta, Ga., Allen P. Julian.
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., Mrs. Julia H. Macloed, Miss L. M. Ignacki.
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas, Austin, Tex., Miss Winnie Allen.
Beauvoir, Biloxi, Miss., home of Jefferson Davis.
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Mass., Miss Margaret Hackett.
Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass., Rare Book Dept., Zoltan N. Hardszti, John Alden, Louis Ugalde.
Brown University, John Hay Library, Providence, R.I., John R. T. Ettlinger, Mrs. Norma Kacen.
California Historical Society, San Francisco, Calif., James deT. Abajian.
California, University of, Berkeley, Calif., Library, Henry N. Smith, Frederick Anderson.
California, University of, at Los Angeles, Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Wilbur J. Smith, James Mink.
Charleston Library Society, Charleston, S.C., Miss Virginia Rugheimer.
Chicago Historical Society, Paul M. Angle, Miss Margaret Scriven.
Chicago Public Library, Gertrude Gscheidle, Herbert Hewitt, and others.
Chicago, University of, Harper Library, Robert Rosenthal.
Civil War Round Tables in numerous cities and their many, many members who always co-operate in every way possible.
Cockrell, Monroe F., Evanston, Ill., private collection.
Concordia Teachers College Library, River Forest, Ill., Albert Huegli, Cornell J. Kusmik.
Confederate Memorial Hall, New Orleans, La., Kenneth Urquhart.
Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Richmond, Va., also known as Confederate Museum or White House of the Confederacy, Miss India W. Thomas, Miss Eleanor Brockenbrough.
Dallas Historical Society, Dallas, Texas.
Duke University Library, Durham, N.C., Manuscript Department, Miss Mattie Russell, Mrs. Virginia R. Gray, Miss Sarah Gray.
Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., Mrs. Charles Potter, Mrs. Thomas Barrow.
Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Fla.
Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, S.C.
Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Ga., Walter C. Hartridge, Mrs. Lilla M. Hawes.
Hanaford, G. E., Oak Park, Ill., private collection.
Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., W. H. Bond.
Harvard University, Widener Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Haverlin, Carl, New York, private collection.
Heiskell, J. N., Little Rock, Ark., private collection, Mrs. Margaret Ross.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif., John E. Pomfret, Allan Nevins, Norma B. Cuthbert, Mary Isabel Fry, Gertrude Ruhnka, Helen Mangold, and many others.
Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Ill., Clyde Walton, Margaret Flint, James Hickey, Howard Rissler, and others.
Johnston, J. Ambler, Richmond, Va., private collection.
Lebold, Mrs. Foreman M., Chicago, Ill., private collection.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., David C. Mearns, C. Percy Powell, Willard Webb, Roy Basler, John J. de Porry, and many others.
Lincoln Memorial University, Dept. of Lincolniana, Harrogate, Tenn., the late Robert Kincaid, William Taylor, Wayne C. Temple.
Lincoln National Life Foundation, Fort Wayne, Ind., R. Gerald McMurtry, Louis Warren.
Little Rock University, Little Rock, Ark.
Louisiana State Dept. of Archives, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., Virgil Bedsole.
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Manassas, Va., Francis Wilshin.
Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Brady Memorial Library,
Purchase, N.Y., Rev. Mother E. Mulqueen, Mother Eleanor O’Byrne, Mother Gertrude Buck.
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Md., Francis C. Haber.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., Stephen T. Riley, Miss Winifred Collins, Warren Wheeler, Malcom Freiberg.
Meine, Franklin J., Chicago, Ill., private collection.
Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Mo., Clarence E. Miller.
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass., Miss Agnes Scanlon.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Massachusetts Commandery, Boston, Mass., Preston Lincoln.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Stephanie Benko.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss., Miss Charlotte Capers.
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., Charles van Ravenswaay, Mrs. Francis Stadler, Mrs. Ellen Harris, Mrs. Brenda R. Gieseker.
Museum of the City of New York, Philip Rees.
National Archives, Washington, D.C., Dallas Irvine, Victor Gondos and others.
Nevins, Allan, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., private collection.
Newberry Library, Chicago, Stanley Pargellis, Ben C. Bowman. In addition to their invaluable library, an office was graciously provided the Director of Research.
Newman, Ralph, Chicago, private collection.
New York Historical Society, New York.
New York Public Library, Manuscript Division.
Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Ill., Robert Harvey, Felix Pollak.
Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, Ill., Lester Stoffel.
Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, Ohio.
Owen, Charles Norton, Chicago, Ill., private collection.
Peacock, John R., High Point, N.C., private collection.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pa., S. K. Stevens, Sanford W. Higginbotham, Henry Eddy, Miss Martha L. Simonetti, Frank Evans.
Pennsylvania, The Historical Society of, Philadelphia, Pa., R. N. Williams II.
Princeton University Library, Manuscript Division, Princeton, N.J., Alexander P. Clark.
Rochester, University of, Rush Rhees Library, Rochester, N.Y., Dept. of Special Collections, Miss Margaret E. Butterfield, Mrs. Evelyn Yost.
The Philip H. & A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa., William McCarthy.
Russell, Don, Elmhurst, Ill., private collection.
Sang, Philip D., and Elsie O., River Forest, Ill., private collection.
Seward, Wm. H., Home, The Foundation Historical Association, Inc., Auburn, N.Y.
Shedd, Charles, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., private collection.
Sinnott, James Butterfield III, New Orleans, La., private collection.
Smith, Ray D., Chicago, private collection.
South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, S.C., Samuel G. Stoney, Mrs. Gertrude T. Prior.
Southern California, University of, Los Angeles, Calif., Lloyd Arvidson, Helen Azhderian.
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill, N.C., James Patton, Mrs. Carolyn Wallace.
Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, Calif., Julius Barclay.
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn., William T. Alderson, Jr., Mrs. Isabelle Howell, Mrs. Frank Owsley, Mrs. Gertrude Parsley, Robert T. Quarles, Daniel M. Robison.
Texas State Archives, Austin, Tex., Dorman H. Winfrey, Mrs. Mary Osburn.
Tufts University, Eaton Library, Medford, Mass., Joseph S. Komidor, Miss Hilda F. Harris.
Tulane University, Dept. of Archives, New Orleans, La., Mrs. Connie Griffith.
Turner, Justin G., Los Angeles, Calif., private collection.
Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va., Edward Davis, Mrs. Ralph Catterall, Miss Elizabeth Dance.
Virginia State Historical Society, Richmond, Va., John M. Jennings, Howson W. Cole, James A. Fleming, Wm. M. E. Rachal.
Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va., Randolph W. Church, William J. Van Schreeven, John W. Dudley, Marvin D. Evans.
Virginia, University of, Alderman Library, Manuscript Division, Charlottesville, Va., Robert Stocking.
Waitt, Robert J., Richmond, Va., private collection.
Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, William P. Palmer Collection and regular collection, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Mrs. Alene Lowe White, Mrs. Mary Ruth Russell.
Wisconsin, State Historical Society of, Manuscript Division, Clifford Lord, Leslie Fischel, Mrs. Josephine Harper.
Yale University Library, Historical Manuscripts Division, New Haven, Conn., Howard Barnard Gottlieb, Miss Marjorie Gray Wynne.