Stephanie Fitzgerald has been writing nonfiction for children for more than 10 years. Her specialties include history, wildlife, and popular culture. Stephanie is currently working on a picture book with the help of her daughter, Molly.
Union Perspective
1: Fordham University Modern History Sourcebook—Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. 16 April 2012. www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1861lincoln-aug1.asp
2: Stephen G. Hyslop. Eyewitness to the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006, page 73.
3: Joan Waugh. U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009, p. 56.
4: Kenneth now Much about the Civil War. New YC. Davis. Don’t Kork: William Morrow, 1996, page 228.
5: PBS Freedom: A History of Us—Lincoln’s Generals. 16 April 2012. www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web06/segment3_p.html
6: Civil War Trust—General Robert E. Lee’s “Lost Order” No. 191. 16 April 2012. www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/lostorder.html
7: National Park Service—Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania. 16 April 2012. www.nps.gov/frsp/chist.htm
8: Don’t Know Much about the Civil War, p. 356.
9: ed Monthly Magazine (Nov. 1896–April 1897), p. 358.
10: White House Historical Association. 16 April 2012. www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_about/whitehouse_collection/whitehouse_collection-art-06.html
11: U.S. Grant. The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volumes I and II. Digireads.com Publishing, 2010, p. 465.
Confederate Perspective:
1: Eyewitness to the Civil War, p. 50–51.
2: Wallace Hettle. Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011, p. 13.
3: Smithsonian National Museum of American History—The Price of Freedom: Americans at War collection. 16 April 2012. www://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=284
4: National Park Service—Stonewall Jackson Shrine. 16 April 2012. www.nps.gov/frsp/js.htm
5: A.A. Hoehling Vicksburg: 47 Days of Siege, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1996, p. 201.
6: National Archives and Records Administration—American Originals: Civil War and Reconstruction. 16 April 2012. www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/civilwar.html