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Nurse, 178; David B. Sabine, “Captain Sally Tompkins,” Civil War Times Illustrated 4 (November 1965): 36–39; Thomas De Leon, Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60’s (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1907), 389.

62. Cornelia Hancock, South After Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock, 1863–1868, ed. H. S. Jaquette (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1956), 92; Alcott, Journals, 114; Victoria E. Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), 95–96; Nina Silber, Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 79; Nelson and Sheriff, A People at War, 242.

63. Mary Ashton Livermore, My Story of the War: A Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience (New York: Arno Press, 1972 [1889]), 435–36; Wendy Hamand Venet, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1991), 154–55.

64. Stephen B. Oates, A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1994), 377–79; Anthony to Clara Barton, September 14, 1881, in The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, vol. IV: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880–1887, ed. Ann D. Gordon (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006), 49.

65. Walt Whitman, “By Blue Ontario’s Shore,” in Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: Rees, Welsh, 1882), 467.

66. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Transcendentalist,” in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Brooks Atkinson (New York: Modern Library, 1950), 93; Emerson, “The American Scholar,” in Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883), 112.

67. James Elliot Cabot, A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888), 2:600; Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 395; George M. Fredrickson, The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 55–56, 65–66, 141–44; Wilbur R. Jacobs, Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991), 128–29.

68. William Vaughn Moody, “An Ode in Time of Hesitation,” in The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to Walcott, ed. Richard Marius (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 133.

69. Strong, diary entry for November 29, 1860, in Diary of the Civil War, 6; Charles J. Stillé, “How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter from English History,” in Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1:89.

70. Lincoln, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” January 27, 1838, “Resolutions in Behalf of Hungarian Freedom,” January 9, 1852, “Fragment on Slavery,” July 1, 1854, and “Message to Congress in Special Session,” July 4, 1861, in Collected Works, 1:115, 2:116, 222, 4: 438.

71. Frank L. Klement, “‘These Honored Dead’: David Wills and the Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg,” in The Soldiers’ Cemetery and Lincoln’s Address (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 1993), 10.

72. Lincoln, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,” November 19, 1863, in Collected Works, 7:23.

73. Joseph George, “The World Will Little Note? The Philadelphia Press and the Gettysburg Address,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114 (July 1990): 394–96.

74. Drew Gilpin Faust, A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), 83–84; O’Brien, Conjectures of Order, 1:531, 2:747–48.

75. “The Future of Our Confederacy,” DeBow’s Review 31 (July 1861): 40.

76. Thomas Dew, A Digest of the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations (New York: D. Appleton, 1853), 587.

77. O’Brien, Conjectures of Order, 2:996, 1012; Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, A Series of Lectures on the Science of Government Intended to Prepare the Student for the Study of the Constitution of the United States (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845), 43, 67.

78. J. Q. Moore, “The Belligerents,” DeBow’s Review 31 (July 1861): 73–74; James Thorwell, The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell, ed. Benjamin Morgan Palmer (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1875), 482–83; William W. Freehling, “James Henley Thornwell’s Mysterious Antislavery Moment,” Journal of Southern History 57 (August 1991): 396–406.

79. J. W. Phelps to R. S. Davis, June 16, 1862, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 15:488; George W. Bick-nell, History of the Fifth Regiment Maine Volunteers, Comprising Brief Descriptions of Its Marches, Engagements, and General Services (Portland, ME: H. L. Davis, 1871), 69.

80. Michael T. Bernath, Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 182–204; Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 24–26, 69.

81. DeBow, “Editorial,” DeBow’s Review 34 (July 1864): 98; Bernath, Confederate Minds, 268.

82. Palmer, Thanksgiving Sermon, Delivered at the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, November 29, 1860 (New York: G. F. Nesbitt, 1861), 7, 12–13.

83. Hammond, diary entry for October 3, 1854, in Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder, ed. Carol Bleser (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 264; O’Brien, Conjectures of Order, 2:955; Thornwell, “Sermon on National Sins,” in The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell, ed. John B. Adger (Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1871–1873), 4:511; William White Narrative, R. L. Dabney Papers, Southern Historical Collection; Eaton, A History of the Southern Confederacy, 105.

84. Hoge, May 15, 1865, in Peyton Harrison Hoge, Moses Drury Hoge: Life and Letters (Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1899), 235; Daniel W. Stowell, Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863–1877 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 38–40; Gorgas, diary entry for July 17, 1863, in The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 75; Eugene D. Genovese, A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998), 37–38, 54–55, 63–71.

85. Bushnell, “Popular Government by Divine Right,” in God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830–1865, ed. D. B. Cheseborough (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991), 104, 117.

86. James H. Moorhead, American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,