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Northern Virginia, C.S.A. (Atlanta: Franklin, 1903), 478–79; Stephen E. Ambrose, Upton and the Army (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992 [1964]), 32.

28. “Reports of Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Grant, U.S. Army, Commanding Second Brigade,” August 30, 1864, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 36(I), 704; John Cannan, Bloody Angle: Hancock’s Assault on the Mule Shoe Salient, May 12, 1864 (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002), 153; William D. Matter, If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 248–49.

29. George Walsh, Damage Them All You Can: Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (New York: Forge Books, 2002), 475.

30. Gordon C. Rhea, Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26–June 3, 1864 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 362; Ernest B. Furgurson, Not War but Murder: Cold Harbor 1864 (New York: Knopf, 2000), 102.

31. Humphreys, The Virginia Campaign of ’64 and ’65, 100; Grant, “Personal Memoirs,” 598; Catton, Grant Takes Command, 240–41; Edward H. Bonekemper, Ulysses S. Grant: A Victor, Not a Butcher: The Military Genius of the Man Who Won the Civil War (Lanham, MD: Regnery, 2004), 186, 191.

32. “Report of Lieut. Gen. U.S. Grant,” July 22, 1865, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 34(I):18.

33. Grant to Halleck, June 5, 1864, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 36(1):11.

34. Smith, Grant, 372; Longacre, General Ulysses S. Grant, 237.

35. Stoddard, in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, 426; T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals (New York, Knopf, 1952), 307; Catton, Grant Takes Command, 176–77; Lincoln, “To Ulysses S. Grant,” June 15, 1864, in Collected Works, 7:393.

36. P. G. T. Beauregard, “Four Days of Battle at Petersburg,” in Battles and Leaders, 3:540–43; August V. Kautz, “The Siege of Petersburg: Two Failures to Capture the ‘Cockade City,’” in Battles and Leaders, ed. Cozzens, 6:401; Wilkeson, Recollections, 157–58; Bonekemper, Ulysses S. Grant, 190; Eppa Hunton, in Noah Andre Trudeau, Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May–June 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), 316; A. Wilson Greene, Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), 185–89.

37. William H. Powell, “The Battle of the Petersburg Crater,” in Battles and Leaders, 4:551; 40–41; Michael A. Cavanaugh and William Marvel, The Petersburg Campaign—The Battle of the Crater “The Horrid Pit,” June 25–August 6, 1864 (Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1989), 40–41; Richard Slotkin, No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 (New York: Random House, 2009), 140–42; Grant to Halleck, August 1, 1864, War of the Rebellion, Series One, 40(1):17–18.

38. John F. Marszalek, Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (New York: Free Press, 1993), 119.

39. Sherman to Thomas Ewing, December 23, 1859, in General W. T. Sherman as College President, ed. Walter L. Fleming (Cleveland: Arthur M. Clark, 1912), 89.

40. Mark Wells Johnson, That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003), 12.

41. Sherman to John Sherman, October 26, 1861, in Sherman’s Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860–1865, ed. Brooks Simpson and Jean V. Berlin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 163; Lee Kennett, Sherman: A Soldier’s Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 144; David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 148.

42. Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 109.

43. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 76.

44. Sherman, Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, 365.

45. Sherman to Grant, March 10, 1864, in “General Sherman’s Reply,” Littell’s Living Age 87 (October 28, 1865): 189; Lloyd Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932), 307–8, 330.

46. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, 1037.

47. James L. Huston, “Putting African-Americans in the Center of American National Discourse: The Strange Fate of Popular Sovereignty,” in Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen, ed. Daniel J. McDonough and Kenneth W. Noe (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2006), 113.

48. Jacob Dolson Cox, Atlanta (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1882), 21; David Conyngham, Sherman’s March Through the South, with Sketches and Incidents of the Campaign (New York: Sheldon, 1865), 29–30.

49. Cater, As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry, 169, 178–79.

50. Stanley F. Horn, The Army of Tennessee (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944), 311–13; Craig L. Symonds, Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 249–50; Winston Groom, Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War (New York: Grove Press, 1995), 17.

51. Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 (New York: Knopf, 2005), 522–26.

52. Sherman to Halleck, July 16, 1864, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 38(V):150; Thomas W. Duncan, Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan, A Confederate Soldier (Nashville, TN: McQuiddy, 1922), 150.

53. Archer Jones, Civil War Command and Strategy (New York: Free Press, 1992), 201–2; Lewis, Sherman: Fighting Prophet, 383; Brian Craig Miller, John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010), 111–22; Cater, As It Was, 183–84, 185.

54. Richard M. McMurry, John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982), 127–34; Richard M. McMurry, Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), 150–57; Philip L. Secrist, Sherman’s 1864 Trail of Battle to Atlanta (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006), 145–48.

55. Hood to Seddon, August 26, 1864, F. A. Shoup to William Hardee, August 31, 1864, and Sherman to Halleck, September 3, 1864, in War of the Rebellion, Series One, 38(V):777, 990, 1007; Marc Wortman, The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta (New York: Public Affairs, 2009), 301–10.

56. Farragut was probably not quite so concise; his response was more likely, “Damn the torpedoes! Four bells, Captain Dayton. Go ahead, Jouett, full speed.” See Craig L. Symonds, The Civil War