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4. Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs,” in Memoirs and Selected Letters, ed. M. D. McFeely and W. S. McFeely (New York: Library of America, 1990), 774; Wilbur Fiske, in Warren B. Armstrong, For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 114; Walt Whitman, “Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War,” in The Portable Walt Whitman, ed. Mark Van Doren (New York: Viking Press, 1969), 562–63.

5. Ezra Munday Hunt, “About the War” and “The Great Union Meeting Held in Indianapolis, February 26th, 1863,” in Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1:562, 2:602; Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978 [1952]), 39.

6. Edward King Wightman, From Antietam to Fort Fisher: The Civil War Letters of Edward King Wightman, 1862–1865, ed. E. G. Longacre (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985), 24; Liva Baker, The Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 97; Samuel Hinckley to Henry Hinckley, March 11, 1862, in Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters Between New England Soldiers and the Home Front, ed. Nina Silber and Mary Beth Sievens (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996), 59.

7. Donald L. Smith, The Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1962), 18; Samuel McIlvaine, By the Dim and Flaring Lamps: The Civil War Diaries of Samuel McIlvaine, ed. C. E. Cramer (Monroe, NY: Library Research Associates, 1990), 32, 147.

8. Jimerson, The Private Civil War, 41, 43; Lloyd Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932), 303.

9. Private Elisha Stockwell, Jr., Sees the Civil War, ed. Byron R. Abernathy (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985), 39; Your Own True Marcus: The Civil War Letters of a Jewish Colonel, ed. Frank L. Byrne and Jean Soman (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1984), 62, 315–16; Marvin R. Cain, “A ‘Face of Battle’ Needed: An Assessment of Motives and Men in Civil War Historiography,” Civil War History 28 (March 1982): 23.

10. William J. Wray, History of the Twenty Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Birney’s Zouaves (Philadelphia: Survivors Association, 1903), 151.

11. L. J. Herdegen and W. J. K. Beaudot, In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg (Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1990), 65.

12. Private Elisha Stockwell, Jr., Sees the Civil War, 15.

13. Judson, History of the Eighty-Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 180–81, 184.

14. James I. Robertson, The Stonewall Brigade (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963), 15–16; Mac Wykoff, A History of the Second South Carolina Infantry, 1861–1865 (Wilmington, NC: Broad-foot, 2011), 441–596; Joseph Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (New York: Free Press, 2008), 19–20.

15. Maris A. Vinovskis, “Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations,” in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays, ed. Maris A. Vinovskis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 1–30.

16. William J. Rorabaugh, “Who Fought for the North in the Civil War? Concord, Massachusetts, Enlistments,” Journal of American History 73 (December 1986): 695–701; Thomas R. Kemp, “Community and War: The Civil War Experience of Two New Hampshire Towns,” in Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays, ed. Maris A. Vinovskis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 31–77.

17. See the tables James M. McPherson created from data on Union enlistees and on Confederate soldiers (based on profiles assembled by Bell I. Wiley) in James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire, 359.

18. Frank E. Fields, 28th Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1985), 1–4; Lee A. Wallace, 3rd Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1986), 1, 2, 7, 16; Rod Gragg, Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 9–10; William B. Jordan, Red Diamond Regiment: The 17th Maine Infantry, 1862–1865 (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1996), 3–4.

19. John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, or The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Boston: G. M. Smith, 1887), 38; Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army, 38.

20. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, 41.

21. Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry (Chicago: J. H. Smith, 1921), 3; William J. Miller, The Training of an Army: Camp Curtin and the North’s Civil War (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1990), 237–38.

22. Charles E. Davis, Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1893), 9.

23. Michael Bacarella, Lincoln’s Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, The Garibaldi Guard (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1996), 31.

24. Goss, “Going to the Front,” in Battles and Leaders, 1:152.

25. Clay McCauley, “From Chancellorsville to Libby Prison,” in Glimpses of the Nation’s Struggle: A Series of Papers Read before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Book and Stationery, 1887), 1:191.

26. Richmond Daily Whig, May 22, 1861, in Richmond in Time of War, ed. W. J. Kimball (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 8; Henry E. Handerson, Yankee in Gray: The Civil War Memoirs of Henry E. Handerson with a Selection of His Wartime Letters, ed. C. L. Cummer (Cleveland, OH: Press of Western Reserve University, 1962), 29–30.

27. Charles S. Wainwright, A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861–1865, ed. Allan Nevins (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962), 22; Jimerson, The Private Civil War, 201.

28. Lee to Jefferson Davis, July 29, 1863, in The War of the Rebellion, 27(III):1048; Justus Scheibert, Seven Months in the Rebel States During the North American War, ed. W. M. S. Hoole (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009 [1958]), 75; James I. Robertson, Soldiers Blue and Gray (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988), 124.

29. Jimerson, The Private Civil War, 206.

30. J. William Jones, “The Morale of General Lee’s Army,” in Annals of the War, 200; Thomas W. Hyde, Following the Greek Cross; or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005), 37; Reid Mitchell, “The Northern Soldier and His Community,” in Toward a Social History