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11. O’Reilly, The Fredericksburg Campaign, 431–32, 436, 440; Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman, ed. Jerome M. Loving (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), 78.

12. Robert G. Carter, “Four Brothers in Blue,” Maine Bugle 5 (October 1898): 357; Daniel E. Sutherland, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 91.

13. Darius N. Couch, “Sumner’s ‘Right Grand Division,’” in Battles and Leaders, 3:119; Slocum, in Stephen R. Taaffe, Commanding the Army of the Potomac (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), 120.

14. Alexander K. McClure, Recollections of Half a Century (Salem, MA: Salem Press Company, 1902), 348; The Civil War Diaries of Col. Theodore B. Gates, 20th New York State Militia, ed. Seward R. Osborne (Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1991), 60; Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996), 120.

15. Lincoln, “To Joseph Hooker,” January 26, 1863, in Collected Works, 6:78–79.

16. “General Orders No. 47,” April 30, 1863, in The War of the Rebellion, Series One, 25(I):171.

17. Edward G. Longacre, The Commanders of Chancellorsville: The Gentleman vs. the Rogue (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 2005), 160; John Bigelow, The Campaign of Chancellorsville: A Strategic and Tactical Study (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1910), 259.

18. John Selby, Stonewall Jackson as Military Commander (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1999), 191–93.

19. James I. Robertson, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (New York: Macmillan, 1997), 171; Life of David Bell Birney, Major-General United States Volunteers (Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1867), 144.

20. Brooks, “The Effect,” May 8, 1863, in Lincoln Observed, 50; Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 2:498–500; Ernest B. Furgurson, Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave (New York: Knopf, 1992), 332.

21. Civil War Diaries of Theodore Gates, 60, 63.

22. George Henry Mills, History of the 16th North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War (Hamilton, NY: Edmonston, 1992 [1903]), 33.

23. Sears, Chancellorsville, 365; Edwin De Leon, Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad, ed. William C. Davis (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), 107.

24. “In the Words of His Own Men: As They Saw General Lee,” ed. Everard H. Smith, Civil War Times Illustrated 25 (October 1986): 22.

25. Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command, vol. 2: Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1943), 510–14; 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; Lee to James Longstreet, March 21, 1863, in The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, eds. Clifford Dowdey and Louis Manarin (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961), 416.

26. William Seymour, The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger, ed. Terry L. Jones (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991), 49; Mills, History of the 16th North Carolina, 18.

27. William Garrett Piston, Lee’s Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987), 2–5; Donald C. Pfanz, Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 7–8, 33; James I. Robertson, General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior (New York: Random House, 1987), 5–7, 303.

28. Nolan, Lee Considered, 9–29.

29. Davis to Lee, August 11, 1863, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 29(II):640.

30. “Memoranda of Conversations Between General Robert E. Lee and William Preston Johnston, May 7, 1868, and March 18, 1870,” ed. W. G. Bean, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 73 (October 1965): 475; Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby (Nashville, TN: J. B. Sanders, 1995 [1917]), 374; Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee: A Biography (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1935), 2: 92.

31. “Memoranda of Conversations between General Robert E. Lee and William Preston Johnston,” 479.

32. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, December 25, 1861, G. W. C. Lee, January 4, 1862, and James A. Seddon, June 8, 1863, in Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, 12, 96, 98, 505; Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 10, 1863, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 27(III):882.

33. Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson, Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982), 19; Lee to Davis, September 21, 1863, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 19(I):143.

34. A. R. Boteler, “Stonewall Jackson in the Campaign of 1862,” Southern Historical Society Papers 40 (September 1915): 165; Henry Kyd Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, Being Chiefly the War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson’s Staff (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968), 113; Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 5, 1862, and September 4, 1862, in Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, 183–84, 288.

35. “Letter from Major General Heth, of A. P. Hill’s Corps, A.N.V.,” Southern Historical Society Papers 4 (October 1877): 153–54.

36. Lee to Hood, May 21, 1863, in Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, 490; Thomas L. Connelly, The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (New York: Knopf, 1977), 202–3.

37. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, March 9, 1863, in Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, 413.

38. J. R. Jones, Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man (Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle, 1978 [1906]), 200, 207; Freeman, R. E. Lee, 3:268.

39. Lee to Jefferson Davis, May 20, 1863, in Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, 488; “Special Orders No. 146,” May 30, 1863, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 25(II):840.

40. “The Rebs Are Yet Thick Around Us: The Civil War Diary of Amos Stouffer of Chambersburg,” Civil War History 38 (September 1992): 214–15; Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Here Come the Rebels! (Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1984), 184–85; Ted Alexander, “A Regular Slave Hunt,” North and South 4 (September 2001): 84–88.

41. William Swallow, “From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg,” in Gettysburg Sources, ed. J. and J. Mclean (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1987), 2:2–3; Stephen Sears, Gettysburg (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 202.

42. Kent Masterson Brown, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign