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and Recollections: Papers Read Before the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1899), 136.

54. Paddy Griffith, French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics, 1792–1815 (Oxford: Osprey, 2007), 52–53; John Gibbon, The Artillerist’s Manual, Compiled from Various Sources and Adapted to the Service of the United States (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1860), 389; J. M. Spearman, The British Gunner (London: Parker, Furneval and Parker, 1844), n.p.

55. Stephen Z. Starr, The Union Cavalry in the Civil War: The War in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863–1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981), 14; Weigley, Quartermaster General of the Union Army, 257; J. Boone Bartholomees, Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons: Staff and Headquarters Operations in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), 62–63.

56. Michael Asher, Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure (New York: Viking, 2005), 112; Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War, ed. Charles P. Roland (Waltham, MA: Blaisdell, 1968 [1879]), 53; Zebulon Vance to James Seddon, December 21, 1863, in The War of the Rebellion, 2:1061–62.

57. Strachan, From Waterloo to Balaclava, 75, 77.

58. Weigley, The American Way of War, 71; Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby (Nashville, TN: J. B. Sanders, 1995 [1917]), 30; Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States—April-June 1863 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991 [1864]), 284–85; Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Civil War, 181–86.

59. Stevens, Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters, 20; Basil L. Gildersleeve, “A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War,” Atlantic Monthly 80 (September 1897): 338; Theodore Wilder, The History of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I. (Oberlin, OH: J. B. T. Marsh, 1866), 6; St. Clair A. Mulholland, The Story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry (Baltimore, MD: Butternut and Blue, 1991 [1895]), 184.

60. The Civil War Diaries of Col. Theodore B. Gates, 20th New York State Militia, ed. Seward R. Osborne (Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1991), 152; Mark H. Dunkelman, Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004), 181; Wightman, From Antietam to Fort Fisher, 74, 97; Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff, A People At War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War, 1854–1877 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 221.

61. Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman, 88.

62. Robert M. Epstein, “The Creation and Evolution of the Army Corps in the American Civil War,” Journal of Military History 55 (January 1991): 21–46; Lawrence Kreiser, Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), 4–5.

63. Wightman, From Antietam to Fort Fisher, 132, 196–97.

64. Robert N. Rosen, The Jewish Confederates (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), 182; Mark A. Grimsley, And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 174.

65. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond, 43.

66. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, 80; Dunkelman, Brothers One and All, 103; Jewett to “Brother and Sister,” July 18, 1862, in Yankee Correspondence, 37; Lee to Mary Custis Lee, September 17, 1861, in Robert Edward Lee Jr., Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904), 46.

67. Avery Harris’ Civil War Journal, ed. Peter Tomasak (Luzerne, PA: Luzerne National Bank, 1999), 15; James A. Wright, No More Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers, ed. S. J. Keillor (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001), 23; Dunkelman, Brothers One and All, 116; David T. Courtwright, “Opiate Addiction as a Consequence of the Civil War,” Civil War History 24 (June 1978): 101–11; James Street, “Under the Influence,” Civil War Times Illustrated 27 (May 1988): 30–35.

68. Albert Castel, ed., “Malingering,” Civil War Times Illustrated 26 (August 1977): 29–31.

69. Michael A. Flannery, Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy (Binghamton, NY: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004), 92; Thomas J. Brown, Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 290; Carol C. Green, Chimborazo: The Confederacy’s Largest Hospital (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004), 5–8; Rebecca Barbour Calcutt, Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals (Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2005), 20; William W. Kern, “Before and After Lister,” Science, June 11, 1915: 851–52.

70. David Madden, Beyond the Battlefield: The Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Times of the Civil War Soldier (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 138; Palmer H. Boeger, “Hardtack and Burned Beans,” Civil War History 4 (March 1958): 84; Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, 113–14.

71. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, 116, 129–30, 135.

72. “Another Account,” July 7, 1864, in The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, ed. Frank Moore (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1868), 11:207.

73. Hortense Herman, “Rank and File of the Confederate Armies,” Confederate Veteran 22 (May 1914): 203; Bartholomees, Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons, 56.

74. M. B. Mitchell, “A Woman’s Recollections of Antietam,” in Battles and Leaders, 2:687–88.

75. “Testimony of Major General Daniel Butterfield,” March 25, 1864, in Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1865), 4:421–22; “Report of Gen. John B. Strange, Nineteenth Virginia Infantry,” July 15, 1862, in The War of the Rebellion, Series One, 11(II):767.

76. Alphaeus Williams, in Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn, Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 76–77.

77. Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982 [1943]), 34; Frank and Reaves, Seeing the Elephant, 105; Williams, From That Terrible Field, 53.

78. William W. Keen, “Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War,” in Addresses and Other Papers (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1905), 431; “Charging New Market Heights: Edward Ripley Recalls,” ed. Edward Longacre, Civil War Times Illustrated 20 (February 1982): 42.

79. Keen, “Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War,”435–36.

80. Edward O. Lord, History of the Ninth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion (Concord: Republican Press Association, 1895), 508.

81. “One Continued Scene of Carnage: A Union Surgeon’s