Gettysburg (100 page)

533 “We could see the leaves”: Jacobs, “How an Eye-Witness.”

533 “Found the Enemy in force”: Haas Diary (MHI).

534 Meade to Halleck:
OR
, 27/1:78.

534 “Skirmishing today”: Mosely Diary (GNP).

534 “have been lying on the field”: Leon,
Diary of a Tar Heel
, 37.

534 “There is no systematic work”: Dickert,
History of Kershaw’s Brigade
, 248-49.

534 “I saw a deep ditch”:
National Tribune
, December 7, 1899.

534 “Each regiment selects a suitable place”: Galwey,
Valiant Hours
, 121.

535 “The pen cannot perform its duties”:
Hunterdon Republican
, July 20, 1863.

535 “as thick as we ever saw pumpkins”: Metcalf “Recollection” (MHI).

535 “You can imagine what the field was like”: Bolton, “With General Lee’s,” 299.

535 “acres of muskets”:
Report of the Ninth.

535 “Longstreet sent back word”: Fremantle,
Three Months
, 272-73.

536 “Canvas was no protection”: Imboden, “Confederate Retreat,” 423.

536 Lee report:
OR
, 27/2: 298.

536 “dictating orders and receiving dispatches”: Smart, ed.,
Radical View
, 62-63.

537 “not to make any present move”: Meade Jr.,
With Meade
, 157-60.

537 “play their old game”: Meade,
Life and Letters
, 125.

537 “under open skies”: Quoted in Coco,
Vast Sea
, 136.

537 “performing necessary operations”: Silver, ed.,
Confederate Soldier
, 125.

537 “those fine young fellows”: Harwell, ed.,
Cities and Camps
, 64.

538 “Lost supplies can be replenished”: Letterman,
Medical Recollections
, 156.

538 “A heavy rain set in”: Schurz,
Reminiscences
, 39.

538 “a field of Blood”: Letterman,
Medical Recollections
, 156.

538 Whitman quotations: Lowenfels, ed.,
Walt Whitman’s Civil War
, 70.

539 “a National Salute”: Rhodes, ed.,
All for the Union
, 117.

539 “Today is Independence Day”: Evans Letters (MHI).

539 “4th of July, while you were celebrating”: McLean Letters (NYSL).

539 “Today is supposed to be a holiday”:
Daily Intelligencer.

539 “A heavy rain was falling”: Blackford Memoir (MHI).

539 “We celebrated the Nation’s birthday”: Rollins Diary (SHSWI).

539 “with heavy hearts”/“Could it mean”: Wallber, “From Gettysburg,” 195.

540 Fremantle quotations: Fremantle,
Three Months
, 272-76.

541 “to ascertain what the intention”:
OR
, 27/1, 78.

541 “showed no signs of worry”: Wallber, “From Gettysburg,” 196.

541 “appears dignified and self-assured”: Rollins Diary (SHSWI).

541 “’the other two corps’”/“‘What reason have you’”: Quoted in Freeman,
R. E. Lee
, 136.

541 “engaged in earnest conversation”: Harwell, ed.,
Cities and Camps
, 65.

542 “‘I thought my men were invincible’”: Quoted in Freeman,
R. E. Lee
, 136.

542 “dreadfully long day”: Broadhead,
Diary of a Lady
, 16.

542 Neighbor’s story:
Gettysburg Compiler
, July 4, 1906.

543 Lee material:
OR
, 27/2: 309; Dowdey and Manarin, eds.,
Wartime Papers
, 589-90.

545 Davis reply:
OR
, 29/2: 640.

546 Meade material:
CCW
, 334-47, 519; Basler, ed.,
Collected Works
, 6: 327-28; Williams,
Lincoln and His Generals
, 270-71.

550 “You are aware the armies met”: Figgat Letter (MHI).

550 “The army of Northern Virginia”: “To Pennsylvania and Back.”

550 “We have voluntarily left”: Shaffer Papers
(NCDHA).

550 “The people where we[’ve] been”: Pryor, “Letters.”

550 “There was a feeling”: Ladd, ed.,
Bachelder Papers
, 3: 1775.

550 “We came here with the best army”: Neill Letters (MHI).

551 “Our army is badly whipped”: Taylor, ed.,
Cry Is War
, 148.

551 “I was sorry when it was begun”: Quoted in Henderson,
12th Virginia Infantry
, 57.

551 “Our noble men are cheerful”/“The army has returned to Virginia”: Fitzhugh Lee,
General Lee
, 294.

551 “‘Our loss was heavy’”: Heth, “Letter to Jones,” 154-55.

552 “We must now prepare”: Dowdey and Manarin, eds.,
Wartime Papers
, 560-61.

552 Lincoln at Gettysburg: Starr,
Reporting
, 189-90; Wills,
Lincoln at Gettysburg
, 191-203.

553 “the stench was so bad”: McCreary, “Gettysburg,” 253.

554 “It is all the war
I
ever want to see”: Aughinbaugh,
Personal Experiences
, 14.

554 “He seemed very tall and gaunt”: McCreary, “Gettysburg,” 253.

554 “He spoke in a quiet, forcible and earnest manner”: Skelly,
Boy’s Experiences
, 25-27.

ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Agnes Barr, “Account of the Battle of Gettysburg”

Lydia Catherine Ziegler Clare, “A Gettysburg Girl’s Story of the Great Battle”

Gates D. Fahnestock, “Recollections of the Battle of Gettysburg”

John Rupp Letter

Leander H. Warren, “Recollections of the Battle of Gettysburg”

ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY

Robert T. Coles, “History of the 4th Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry”

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

Abner Doubleday Papers (George Stannard Letter)

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Elisha Coan Papers

O. O. Howard Collection (Daniel Hall Letter)

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W. S. Church Papers

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S. H. Gay Collection

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH CENTER
(HILL JUNIOR COLLEGE, HILLSBORO, TEXAS)

Rufus K. Felder Letters

A. C. Sims Recollections

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Francis M. Wafer Diary

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(Perkins Library Manuscript and Special Collections)

Hodnett Family Collection

EMORY UNIVERSITY

John A. Everett Collection

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Alfred Melancthon Apted Diary

M. G. Bass Letter

George D. Buswell Diary

Henry L. Figures Letters

J. H. S. Funk Letters

Henry Herbert Harris Diary

James Barbour Johnson Letter

A. P. Morrison Letters

James William Thomas Diary

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F. M. Stoke Letters

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

Charles M. Andrews,
Condensed History of the Campaigns of the Third Regiment of
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States of America
(mss., n.p., n.d.)

Harriet Bayly, “Mrs. Joseph Bayly’s Story of the Battle”

Elizabeth Plank Beard Memoir

Charles W. Belknap Diary

Edwin Dow Letter

William
B.
Floyd Papers
William
B.
Taylor Letters

“First Shot” (anonymous manuscript)

William T. Fluker, “A Graphic Account of the Battle of Little Round Top Hill at Gettysburg”

Thomas A. Littlejohn, “Recollections of a Confederate Soldier”

Stephen E. Martin Diary

Christopher Meade Letter

Josiah (John) Mosley Diary

Alex M. Neill Letters

Gulian Weir, Notes on Gettysburg

James Wentworth Diary (article)

HARPER’S FERRY NATIONAL PARK

Daniel H. Sheetz Letters

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Adolfo Fernandez-Cavada Diary

Gettysburg Letterbook (William H. Paine Letter)

Andrew Humphreys Papers

Letter to John Watts DePeyster

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George Edward Finney Diary

Henry C. Marsh Papers

Orr Family Papers

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Theodore A. Dodge Papers

Jubal A. Early Papers

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Samuel R. Johnston Letters

Samuel J. B. V. Gilpin Diary

George W. Hall Diary

John William Ford Hatton Memoir

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers

Hotchkiss-McCullough Manuscripts
Samuel Thomas McCullough Diary

James William Latta Diary

Rufus Meade Diary

Pickett-Christiancy Papers
H. C. Christiancy Diary and Letters

James M. Cline Letter

Ward Family Papers
Jas. H. Wilkes Letters

Edwin D. Wentworth Letters

Cadmus M. Wilcox Papers

LIBRARY OF MEMPHIS STATE UNIVERSITY

Leander G. Woollard, “Journals of Events and Incidents as They Came to the Observation of the ‘Senatobia Invincibles”

THE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA (FORMERLY THE STATE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA)

John Samuel Apperson Diary

William R. Carter Letters

John O. Donohoe Diary

James H. Walker, “The Charge of Pickett’s Division by a Participant”

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection
J. Warren Jackson Letters

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Francis C. Barlow Papers

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Newell Burch Diary

Alfred P. Carpenter Letters

James A. Wright, “Story of Company F”

MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACY, ELEANOR S. BROCKENBROUGH LIBRARY

Thaddeus Fitzhugh Memoir

Robert Pooler Myers, “Campaign from Culpeper C.H. Va. to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania”

William H. Routt Papers

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Henry Lane Kendrick Papers

NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY

Harriette Calkins Papers
James M. Jones Diary

Calvin A. Haynes Letters

William Clark McLean Letters and Diary

Gouverneur K. Warren Letters

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Isaac Erwin Avery Papers

W. H. S. Burgwyn Papers

J.
B.
Clifton Diary

John Francis Shaffner Diary and Papers

Francis D. Winston Papers

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Charles A. Richardson Papers

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Samuel Penniman Bates Papers

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Charles H. Veil, Letter to D. McConaughy

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Charles W. Reed Letters

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(UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL)

William Beavans Diary

J. F. H. Claiborne Papers

Franklin Gaillard Collection

J. Bryan Grimes Papers
J. A. Stikeleather “Recollections”

Robert F. Hoke Papers
John A. McPherson Letter

John R. Lane Papers
T. J. Cureton Letter

Lafayette McLaws Papers

Alexander S. Pendleton Letters

Thomas L. Ware Diary

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Samuel Eaton Papers

Lucius Fairchild Papers

George Fairfield Diaries

Robert
B.
Hughes Journal

Nathaniel Rollins Diary

Jerome A. Watrous Papers
Earl A. Rogers Letter

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Benjamin Hough Letters

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Charles Moore Diary
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John W. Ames Papers
Robert L. Brake Collection
Levi Bird Duff Letters
Charles Figgat Letter
John S. Henley Letter
Zack Landrum Letters

Civil War Miscellaneous Collection
A. P. Andrews, “Gallantry at Gettysburg”
Eugene Blackford Memoir
Elon Brown Diary-Memoir
Orrel Brown Diary
B. H.
Coffman Letter
Samuel Angus Firebaugh Diary
Calvin
S.
Heller Diary
Luther
B.
Mesnard Reminiscence
William Penn Oberlin Letters
Wilson
N.
Paxton Diary
Joseph Todd Diary

Civil War Times Illustrated
Collection
John Berry Diary
Robert
S.
Coburn Diary
John
C.
Kesses Diary

Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable Collection
Jacob
W.
Haas Diary
Henry Keiser Diary
David Nichol Diary and Letters
Gregory A. Coco Collection
William J. Evans Letters
George P. Metcalf, “Recollection of Boyhood Days”
William J. Seymour Diary-Memoir

Timothy Brooks Collection
Unknown Soldier Letters (140th Pennsylvania)

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Michigan Historical Collections
William Baird Letters
James Houghton Diary

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY

Blackford Family Papers
Lancelot
M.
Blackford Letter

Ephraim Bowman Correspondence

John Daniels Papers
Erasmus Williams/W.
S.
Christian Letters

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