1. David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in ’61 and Afterward: Reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-Second New York; Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912), 3.
2. “Departure of the Volunteers,” The Fredonia Censor, June 5, 1861, excerpted from Dunkirk Journal.
3. Ibid.
4. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 2–3.
5. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), 53–55.
6. Ibid., 72–76.
7. Ibid., 115.
8. Ibid., 116.
9. Ibid., 116–17.
10. Ibid., 117.
11. For more information regarding specific composition of the Excelsior Brigade, reference Fredrick H. Dyer’s “70th–74th New York Infantry” found in A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Indiana: Guild, 1997). Additional information can be found in Col. W.F. Fox’s work Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, with Full and Extensive Statistics Compiled from the Official Records on file in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington (Albany, NY: Albany, 1889).
12. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 7.
13. W.A. Swanberg, ibid., 117–18.
14. Ibid., 119.
15. Ibid., 120.
16. Ibid., 120–21.
17. As quoted by W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, referencing the Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, 121.
18. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 118–22.
19. Ibid.
20. “Departure of the First Company of Volunteers from Delaware County, 1861,” transcribed from the Bloomville Mirror (date of article unknown) by Linda Robinson, April 17, 2002, New York Genealogy and History Site http://www.dcnyhistory.org/milvol1861.html, date of access December 9, 2012.
21. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 8–9.
22. Ibid., insert between pages 37 and 38.
23. “A Letter from Camp Scott, June 24, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, July 3, 1861.
24. Arthur McKinstry, “A Letter from the Camp, June 18th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, June 19, 1861.
25. David B. Parker, ibid., 4.
26. McKinstry, “Letter from the Camp, June 18th, 1861.”
27. Henri LeFevre-Brown, ibid., 9.
28. Ibid., 9–12.
29. David B. Parker, ibid., 4–5.
30. Henri LeFevre-Brown, ibid., 10.
31. “Departure of the Volunteers,” The Fredonia Censor, June 5, 1861, excerpted from Dunkirk Journal.
32. Stephen Beszedits, “Some Lesser Hungarians of the American Civil War,” http://www.sk-szeged.hu/statikus_html/vasvary/newsletter/05jun/civil_war.htm, accessed November 11, 2009, and December 9, 2012.
33. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 9.
34. Pendergast Library, “The Man the Jamestown GAR Honored,” http://www.prendergastlibrary.org/?page_id=4201, accessed November 11, 2009, and December 9, 2012.
35. Henri LeFevre-Brown, ibid., 125.
36. Ibid., 11.
37. Charles W. Gould, “The Captain’s Tent, June 9th, 1861,” compilation by Robert F. Harris in Civil War Times Illustrated: The Battleground of Virtue (October 2001), pp. 26, 68.
38. Ibid.
39. “Indignation in Westfield,” The Fredonia Censor, July 31, 1861, reprinted from an article in the Westfield Republican.
40. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 12.
41. David B. Parker, ibid., 5.
42. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 13.
43. Ibid., 13–14
44. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 123–24.
1. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 15.
2. Ibid., 17–18.
3. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible. (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), referencing the Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, 145.
4. Arthur McKinstry, “Camp Correspondence July 6th 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, July 24, 1861.
5. The Mount Sinai Hospital, “The Unexpected, 1860–1869,” 1852–2002 Sesquicentennial Pamphlet, 5.
6. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 63½.
7. Ibid., 81½.
8. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 47.
9. “Departure from Camp Scott, July 28th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, August 7, 1861.
10. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 47.
11. Gettysburg Foundation, “Feeding the Troops,” www.gettysburgfoundation.org/media/assets/FeedingtheTroops.pdf, accessed March 13, 2013.
12. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 48.
13. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 17.
14. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 4.
15. Hiram Stoddard, “Camp Nelson Taylor, March 27th, 1863,” in Wartime Letters of Hiram Stoddard, Company I, 72nd NYSV, Gowanda Area Historical Society.
16. Charles W. Gould, “Washington D.C., August 7th, 1861,” in compilation by Robert F. Harris, Civil War Times Illustrated: The Battleground of Virtue, October 2001, 68.
17. Fr. Joseph O’Hagan, “Woodstock Letters VIII, 1879,” Civil War History, VI (Maryland: Woodstock College Press, 1879), 173–83.
18. “Departure from Camp Scott, July 28th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, August 7, 1861.
19. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 17–18.
20. Ibid., 18.
21. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), vol. 107, 438. Hereafter cited as “O.R.” for “Official Records.”
22. Ibid., 19–20.
23. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 128.
24. H.B. Taylor, “From the Third Regiment, Camp Caldwell, September 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, September 11, 1861.
25. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, citing New York World, June 30, 1869, 125.
26. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 5.
27. “From the Third Regiment, August 11th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, August 21, 1861.
28. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 20.
29. “From the Third Regiment, August 11th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, August 21, 1861.
30. Ibid.
31. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 32.
32. 72nd N.Y. Volunteer Infantry, Civil War Newspaper Clippings, Unit History Project, New York State Military Museum.
33. David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in ’61 and Afterward: Reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-Second New York; Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912), 6.
34. “From the Third Regiment, August 26, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, September 4, 1861.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. “August 3, 1861,” 73rd N.Y. Volunteer Infantry, Civil War Newspaper Clippings, Unit History Project, New York State Military Museum.
38. New York Times, “Local Military Movements, August 23, 1861.”
39. “August 24, 1861,” 73rd N.Y. Volunteer Infantry, Civil War Newspaper Clippings, Unit History Project, New York State Military Museum.
40. Ibid., “October 14, 1861.”
41. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 20.
42. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Caldwell, October 17th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, October 23, 1861.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 20.
46. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Caldwell, September 14th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, September 25, 1861.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. “Reconnaissance of the Excelsior Brigade in Southern Maryland,” The New York Times, October 3, 1861.
51. Ibid.
52. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Caldwell, September 14th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, September 25, 1861.
53. New York Times, “Local Military Movements, August 23, 1861.”
1. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 24–25.
2. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 22.
3. Walter H. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 50.
4. Ibid., 51–52.
5. Ibid., 54.
6. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), 132.
7. H.B. Taylor, “From the Third Regiment, October 23rd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, November 6, 1861.
8. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 76.
9. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 66.
10. Ibid.
11. “Adjutant S.M. Doyle,” The Fredonia Censor, October 9, 1861.
12. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 2.
13. Ibid.
14. “From the Third Regiment, October 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, October 30, 1861.
15. H.B. Taylor, “From the Third Regiment, October 23rd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, November 6, 1861.
16. “Dear Uncles, October 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, October 30, 1861.
17. O.R., vol. 5, 372.
18. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 22–24.
19. “From the Third Regiment, November 17th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, November 27, 1861.
20. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 22–23.
21. H.B. Taylor, “From the Third Regiment, October 23rd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, November 6, 1861.
22. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 24.
23. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 58.
24. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 24.
25. “From the Third Regiment, November 17, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, November 27, 1861.
26. Ibid.
27. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 32.
28. Sandy Point, “From the Third Regiment, March 9th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, March 19, 1862.
29. Ibid.
30. G.W. Shelley, “From the Third Regiment, A Private Letter, December 12th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, December 25, 1861.
31. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 60.
32. David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in ’61 and Afterward: Reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-Second New York; Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912), 6.
33. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 60–61.
34. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 133.
35. G.W. Shelley, “Extract from a Private Letter from the Third Regiment, December 7th, 1861,” December 18, 1861.
36. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 60.
37. “From the Third Regiment, November 17th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, November 27, 1861.
38. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 61.
39. “From the Third Regiment, March 30th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, April 9, 1862.
40. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 62.
41. “From the Third Regiment, December 9th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, December 18, 1861.
42. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 138.
43. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, March 15th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, March 26, 1862.
44. Ibid.
45. James F. Rusling, Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days (New York: Eaton and Mains, 1899), 61–62.
46. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 63–64.
47. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Caldwell, September 14th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, September 25, 1861.
48. Charles W. Gould, “The Captain’s Tent, June 10th, 1861,” The Battleground of Virtue: Civil War Times Illustrated, October 2001, 71.
49. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, December 22nd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, January 1, 1862.
50. Owen Street, The Young Patriot: A Memorial of James Hall, 1862 (Massachusetts: Sabbath School Society, 1862), 147–148.
51. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 40.
52. Daniel Edgar Sickles, Address Delivered in Boston Before the Hooker Association of Massachusetts (Norwood, Massachusetts: Norwood, 1910), 2.
53. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 67.
54. “From the Third Regiment, Headquarters, Company D on Picket, Sandy Point, February 28th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, March 12, 1862.
55. Ibid.
56. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 135.
57. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 66.
58. “From the Third Regiment, November 23rd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, December 4, 1861.
59. “From the Third Regiment, December 3rd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, December 11, 1861.
60. “From the Third Regiment, December 9th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, December 18, 1861.
61. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, December 22nd, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, January 1, 1862.
62. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, December 30th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, January 15, 1862.
63. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, January 2nd, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, January 22, 1862.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, January 14th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, January 29, 1862.
68. Owen Street, The Young Patriot: A Memorial of James Hall, 1862 (Massachusetts: Sabbath School Society, 1862), 148–50.
69. Ibid., 157–59.
70. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, January 21st, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, January 29, 1862.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid.
74. Ibid.
75. Ibid.
76. Ibid.
77. Gould, “The Captain’s Tent,” 74–75.
78. G.W. Shelley, “Extract from a Private Letter from the Third Regiment, December 7th, 1861,” The Fredonia Censor, December 18, 1861.
79. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 68–69.
80. Gould, “The Captain’s Tent,” 74–75.
81. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 71.
82. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 53.
83. Ibid.
84. Street, Young Patriot, 152–153.
85. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 22.
86. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 54.
87. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wool, March 30th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, April 9, 1862.
88. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 25.
89. Ibid.
90. Talman C. Bookout, “Camp Wool, Maryland, April 5th, 1862,” The Bloomville Mirror, April 22, 1862.
91. Ibid.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid.
94. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 25.
95. Daniel Sickles, “General Sickles Farewell to His Soldiers, 1862,” The New York Times, April 10, 1862.
96. Talman C. Bookout, “Camp Wool, Maryland, April 5th, 1862,” The Bloomville Mirror, April 22, 1862.
1. “From the Third Regiment, April 11th, 1862” The Fredonia Censor, April 23, 1862.
2. Ibid.
3. Walter H. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 76.
4. ”From the Third Regiment,” The Fredonia Censor, April 14, 1862.
5. David Hastings and Earl C. Hastings, Jr., A Pitiless Rain: The Battle of Williamsburg, 1862 (Shippensburg: White Mane, 1997), 10–19.
6. David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in ’61 and Afterward: Reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-Second New York; Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912), 12.
7. Owen Street, The Young Patriot: A Memorial of James Hall (Massachusetts: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1862), 162.
8. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 44.
9. “Camp Scott Near Yorktown, April 22nd, 1862,” The Bloomville Mirror, May 6 1862.
10. Parker, Chautauqua Boy, 15.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., 15–16.
13. E.J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 227–28.
14. A.H. Guernsey and H.M. Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History of the Civil War (New York: Fairfax, 1866), 336.
15. “General Sickles,” The Fredonia Censor, April 30, 1962, 1.
16. Ibid.
17. Emerson F. Merrell, “Letter to His Brother Henry, April 4th, 1862, sent from Camp Winfield Scott,” in Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 58.
18. “From the Third Regiment, Camp Wilfred Scott, April 29th, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, May 14, 1862.
19. Street, Young Patriot, 164–65.
20. Warner, Generals in Blue, 193–94.
21. Ibid., 362–63.
22. R.L. Murray, Excelsior Brigade at Williamsburg in the Army of the Potomac Journal (Wolcot: Benedum, 2005), 3.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 4–5.
25. Ibid., 4.
26. Murray, Excelsior Brigade, 9.
27. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 7.
28. Hastings and Hastings, Pitiless Rain, 36–38.
29. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 465.
30. R.L. Murray, ibid., “Hartwell Dickinson Letter, May 8, 1862,” 8.
31. Ibid.
32. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 484.
33. Murray, Excelsior Brigade, 8.
34. Ibid., 9.
35. Ibid., 9–11.
36. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 467.
37. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker 85.
38. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 8.
39. “J.F.’s Letter to the Editor Camp Near Williamsburg, Virginia, May 7, 1862,” The Fredonia Censor, May 21, 1862.
40. Ibid.
41. Alan H. Archambault, A Sketchbook of the Union Infantryman (Gettysburg: Thomas, 1999), 86–87.
42. Parker, Chautauqua Boy, 16.
43. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 480.
44. “Report of Lt. Col. Charles H. Burtis, 74th N.Y. Infantry, May 5, 1862,” O.R., series 1, vol. 11, part 1, 486.
45. Murray, Excelsior Brigade, “Henry Ford Letter, May 8, 1862,” 23.
46. Ibid.
47. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 142–43.
48. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 482.
49. Ibid., 482–83.
50. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Peninsula (Alexandria: Time-Life, 1998), 42.
51. Murray, Excelsior Brigade, “A Lieutenant in Sickles Brigade,” 27.
52. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 480.
53. Hastings and Hastings, Pitiless Rain, 98–111.
54. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Peninsula, 42.
55. Emerson F. Merrell, “Letter to His Parents, May 6th, 1862, sent from Camp Winfield Scott,” in Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 62.
56. “A Letter for the Third Regiment,” The Fredonia Censor, May 21, 1862.
57. Hastings and Hastings, Pitiless Rain, 115–18.
58. Parker, Chautauqua Boy, 16–17.
59. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 450.
60. Ibid., 533–43.
61. Ibid., 450.
62. Ibid., 459.
63. Ibid., 468.
1. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 465.
2. Martin A. Haynes, A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion (Lakeport, NH: n.p., 1896), 74.
3. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press), 124–125.
4. Walter H. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 117.
5. Ibid.
6. James F. Rusling, Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days (New York: Eaton and Mains, 1899), 63.
7. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days (Alexandria, VA: Lifetime Books, 1998), 113.
8. David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in ’61 and Afterward: Reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-Second New York; Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912), 17–18.
9. O.R., vol. 11, part 3, 166.
10. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 60–61.
11. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 151–58.
12. “The Killed and Wounded,” The Fredonia Censor, May 14, 1862.
13. “The Battle of Williamsburgh,” The Fredonia Censor, May 14, 1862.
14. “The Honored Dead,” The Fredonia Censor, May 21, 1862.
15. Ibid.
16. “The Victims of the Williamsburgh Fight, by J.P.,” The Fredonia Censor, May 21, 1862.
17. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 95.
18. Emerson F. Merrell, “Letter to His Brother Henry, April 4th, 1862, Sent from Camp Winfield Scott,” in Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 58.
19. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 95.
20. “Return of Sickles to His Brigade,” The New York Times, May 24, 1862.
21. Ibid.
22. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 95.
23. Ibid., 95–96.
24. Ibid., 96.
25. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, 114.
26. Ibid.
27. “Taylor’s Report,” May 31–June 4, 1862, O.R., series 1, vol. 11, part 1, 830.
28. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, 116.
29. “Taylor’s Report,” 830.
30. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, 116.
31. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 97.
32. “Taylor’s Report,” 17.
33. Ibid., 830.
34. O.R., ibid., “Sickles Report of Fair Oaks,” 822.
35. Ibid, 822.
36. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, “Walter Donaldson Letter,” 147.
37. O.R., ibid., “Sickles Report of Fair Oaks,” 822.
38. “Hall Report of Fair Oaks, May 31–June 1, 1862, O.R., series 1, vol. 11, part 1, 826.
39. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, “Walter Donaldson Letter,” 147.
40. Ibid.
41. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 822.
42. Ibid., 830.
43. Ibid.
44. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, 116.
45. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 98.
46. “Conduct of the War Report by Joint Committee in 1863,” Part I, 578.
47. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 830.
48. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 8.
49. Parker, Chautauqua Boy, 19.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 40.
53. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 830–31.
54. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 98–99.
55. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 826.
56. Owen Street, The Young Patriot: A Memorial of James Hall (Massachusetts: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1862), 174–75.
57. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, 127–28.
58. O.R., vol. 11, part 1, 831.
59. Ibid.
60. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 64.
61. Martin A. Haynes, A History of the 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion (Lake Port, NH: n.p.), 1896, 91.
62. Gustavus B. Hutchinson, A Narrative of the Formation and Services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers (Boston, MA: Alfred Mudge, 1893), 26.
63. Parker, Chautauqua Boy, 20.
64. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 98.
1. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 139–140.
2. Walter H. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 99.
3. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 66.
4. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days (Alexandria, VA: Lifetime, 1998), 9–11.
5. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 146.
6. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 101–02.
7. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 108.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., 134–35.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid, 108.
13. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 146.
14. The New York Times, July 9, 1862.
15. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 109.
16. Ibid., 136.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., 109.
19. Ibid., 136.
20. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 51.
21. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 137.
22. Ibid.
23. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 9.
24. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 137.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., 138.
28. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days, 88.
29. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 155.
30. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 138.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., 123.
34. Ibid., 138.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., 123.
37. Ibid., 138.
38. Ibid.
39. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 110.
40. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 139.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 111.
45. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 140.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 10.
49. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 145.
50. Ibid.
51. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 10.
52. Owen Street, The Young Patriot: A Memorial of James Hall (Massachusetts: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1862), 179–80.
53. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 146.
54. Ibid.
55. “Taylor’s Report of Malvern Hill,” O.R., series 1, vol. 11, part 2, 146.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. Issac L. Chadwick, 72nd New York, “Affidavit to Origin of Disability, January 1893,” United States National Archives and Records.
59. “Taylor’s Report of Malvern Hill,” O.R., series 1, vol. 11, part 2, 146.
60. Charles F. Bryan and Nelson D. Lankford, Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey Written and Illustrated by Private Robert Knox Sneden (New York: Free Press, 2000), 96–97.
61. “Taylor’s Report of Malvern Hill,” O.R., series 1, vol. 11, part 2, 146.
62. American Civil War Research Database, “Various Analysis of Regimental Enrollment and Casualties, 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry” (Kingston, MA: American Civil War Research Database).
63. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 142.
64. Ibid., 116.
65. Street, Young Patriot, 65.
66. Ibid., 181–82.
67. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 112.
68. Warren H. Cudworth, History of the First Regiment Massachusetts Infantry (Boston, MA: Walker, Fuller, 1866), 241–49.
69. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 112.
70. Ibid., 114.
71. Ibid., 115.
72. O.R., vol. 11, part 2, 951–52.
73. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 71.
74. D.H. Donald, Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), 113.
75. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 116.
76. O.R, vol. 11, part 2, 952.
77. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 117.
78. Ibid.
79. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 67.
80. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 149–158.
81. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 159.
1. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 71.
2. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 152–58.
3. Ibid.
4. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), 157.
5. Charles F. Bryan and Nelson D. Lankford, Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey Written and Illustrated by Private Robert Knox Sneden (New York: Free Press, 2000), 113.
6. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 172.
7. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 64.
8. O.R., vol. 16, 450.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., 451.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. O.R., vol. 12, part 2, 437–38.
17. Ibid., 454.
18. Ibid.
19. D.H. Donald, Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), 129–30.
20. “Carr’s Report,” O.R., vol. 12, part 2, 454.
21. Ibid.
22. “Taylor’s Report,” 454.
23. Ibid., 444.
24. “Young’s Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 12, part 2, 447.
25. Ibid., 447.
26. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 173.
27. J. Hayward, Give It to Them, Jersey Blues! A History of the 7th Regiment, New Jersey Veteran Volunteers in the Civil War (Hightstown: Longstreet House, 1998), 61.
28. “Taylor’s Report,” 444.
29. Ibid.
30. “Young’s Report,” 447.
31. Ibid.
32. Hayward, Give It to Them, 61.
33. “Young’s Report,” 447.
34. Ibid.
35. “Taylor’s Report,” 444.
36. R.C. Cheeks, Ewell’s Flawless Performance at Kettle Run in America’s Civil War (Leesburg: Premedia, 2000), 55.
37. E.J. Stackpole, From Cedar Mountain to Antietam: August–September, 1862 (Harrisburg: Stackpole, 1959), 161–162.
38. “Grover’s Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 12, part 2, 439.
39. Ibid.
40. “Taylor’s Report,” 445.
41. “Young’s Report,” 447.
42. “Taylor’s Report,” 445.
43. “Johnson’s Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 12, part 2, 665.
44. Ibid., 666.
45. “Bliss Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 12, part 2, 452.
46. Ibid.
47. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 92–93.
48. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Second Manassas (Alexandria, VA: Lifetime, 1998), 114.
49. Ibid.
50. “Taylor’s Report,” 445.
51. “Bliss Report,” 452.
52. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Second Manassas, 114.
53. Ibid.
54. American Civil War Research Database, Kingston, MA, various sources, http://www.civilwardata.com, accessed June 1, 2013.
55. “Bliss Report,” 452.
56. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 75.
57. “Hooker,” O.R., series 1, vol. 12, part 2, 437.
1. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letter of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 75.
2. O.R., vol. 12, part 2, 443.
3. Ibid.
4. A.H. Guernsey and H.M. Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History of the Civil War (New York: Fairfax, 1866), 390.
5. “Taylor Report,” May 31–June 4, 1862, Kettle Run, Groveton, Bull Run, O.R., Series 1, vol. 12, part 2, 445–446.
6. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 75.
7. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), 158.
8. Ibid., 159.
9. Daniel Sickles, “Uncited Military Movements in the City, August 7th, 1862,” New York Times.
10. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 158.
11. F.H. Dyer, “70th–74th New York Infantry,” A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer, 1908), part 1, 296.
12. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 75.
13. American Civil War Research Database, Kingston, MA, various sources, http://www.civilwardata.com, accessed June 1, 2013.
14. James Dean Letters, Documents, and Memorials, courtesy of the Dean family, unpublished, rights to publish excerpts by generosity of the Dean family. Henceforth referred to as the “Dean Family Collection.”
15. C. Van Santvoord, The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment NYS Volunteers in the Civil War (Saugerties: Hope Farm, 1997), 9–13, 27.
16. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 75.
17. Dyer, “70th–74th New York Infantry,” part 1, 294.
18. “Letter to Parents, October 13th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
19. Ibid.
20. “Letter to Parents, October 25, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
21. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 79.
22. “Letter to Parents, October 25, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
23. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 80.
24. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 87.
25. J. Hayward, Give It to Them, Jersey Blues! A History of the 7th Regiment, New Jersey Veteran Volunteers in the Civil War (Hightstown: Longstreet House, 1998), 73.
26. “Sickles Report, November 19th, 1862,” O.R., series 1, vol. 19, part 2, 562.
27. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 187.
28. Ibid., 188.
29. D.H. Donald, Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), 169.
30. Ibid., 171.
31. “Letter to Parents, November 13th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
32. “Sickles Report,” 166.
33. “Letter to Parents, November 13th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
34. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 89.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg (Alexandria, VA: Lifetime, 1998), 10.
38. A.H. Guernsey and H.M. Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History of the Civil War (New York: Fairfax, 1866), 407.
39. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 89.
40. Ibid.
41. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg, 11.
42. Ibid., 12.
43. “Letter to Parents, December 8th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
44. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 77.
45. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 191.
46. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 92.
47. George Bailey, “Letter to Brother, December 7th, 1862,” unpublished, War Time Letters of George Bailey, Company H, 72nd NYSV, courtesy of the Gwanda Area Historical Society.
48. C.W. Gould, “The Battleground of Virtue,” Civil War Times Illustrated (Leesburg, VA: Weider History Group, 2001), “Letter to Brother Marvin, December 14th, 1861,” 75.
49. Dyer, “70th–74th New York Infantry,” part 1, 296–97.
50. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 195.
51. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg, 14.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid., 33–34.
54. Ibid., 54.
55. Ibid., 56.
56. Ibid.
57. O.R, vol. 26, part 1, 668.
58. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg, 54.
59. “Report of Colonel George B. Hall,” O.R., series I, vol. 21, 384.
60. Ibid., 385.
61. Ibid.
62. “Letter to Parents, December 18th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 195.
67. “Letter to Parents, November 13th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
68. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg, 131.
69. Van Santvoord, One Hundred and Twentieth, 34.
70. “Report of Colonel George B. Hall,” 385.
71. “Report of Brigade General Daniel E. Sickles,” O.R., series 1, vol. 21, part 1, 381.
72. Ibid.
73. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 82.
74. “Letter to Parents, December 18th, 1862,” Dean Family Collection.
75. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg, 131.
76. Ibid., 132.
77. Ibid.
78. Ibid., 133.
79. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 93.
1. Hiram Stoddard, “Letter to Parents, December 28th, 1862,” Wartime Letters of Hiram Stoddard, Company I, 72nd NYSV, unpublished, courtesy of Gowanda Area Historical Society, New York.
2. Ibid.
3. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, Come Cry with Me: The Letters of Emerson F. Merrell, Native of the Town of Coventry in Chenango County, New York, Who Served in Company I, 72nd Regiment, New York Infantry, New York Excelsior Brigade, Army of the Potomac 1861–1863 (self-published by the authors, 2001), 97.
4. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, “Letter to Sister Mary, Camp 3rd Regiment near Falmouth, Virginia, February 21st, 1863,” 104.
5. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, December 28th, 1862.”
6. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 206.
7. E.J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 395–96.
8. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 208.
9. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 98.
10. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 83.
11. Ibid.
12. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 101.
13. Annual Report of Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1901 (Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1902), 872, 874.
14. “Letter from Dr. C. K. Irwin, January 15th, 1863,” Compiled Military Service File: Issac L. Chadwick, Company C, 72nd New York, National Archives.
15. Annual Report of Adjutant-General, 808, 841, 866, and 886.
16. “Letter to Parents, January 13th, 1863,” Compiled Military Service File: John S. Austin, New York National Archives.
17. David B. Parker, A Chautauqua Boy in ’61 and Afterward: Reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-Second New York; Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1912), 23–24.
18. Walter H. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 166, citing “Extracts from the Journal of Henry W. Raymond, January 1880,” in Scribner’s Monthly, vol. 19, ed. Henry W. Raymond, C.J. Holland, (New York: Scribner’s), n.p.
19. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, “Lincoln Letter to Hooker, January 26th, 1863,” 12.
20. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Mother, January 11th, 1863.”
21. James Dean Letters, Documents, and Memorials, courtesy of the Dean family, unpublished, rights to publish excerpts by generosity of the Dean family (henceforth referred to as the “Dean Family Collection”), “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Falmouth, Virginia, January 7th, 1863.”
22. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Falmouth, Virginia, February 27th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
23. “Letter to Parents, Camp Nelson Taylor, January 19th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
24. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 101.
25. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 85.
26. “Letter to Parents, Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, February 27th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
27. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 212–14.
28. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 103.
29. George Bailey, “Letter to Franklin Bates, February 7th, 1863,” War Time Letters of George Bailey, Company H, 72nd NYSV, unpublished, courtesy of the Gwanda Area Historical Society.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Francis T. Lynch and Samuel C. Sandoli, ibid., “Letter to Sister, 3rd Regiment Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, March 6th, 1863, 105.”
33. Ibid.
34. O.R., series 1, vol. 40, part 1, 152.
35. “Letter to Parents, May 26th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
36. “Letter to Brother and Sister, Camp Nelson Taylor, March 11th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
37. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 106–07.
38. “Letter to Parents, May 30th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
39. O.R., series I, vol. 25, part I, 466.
40. Ibid.
41. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, May 7th, 1863.”
42. William K. Goolrick, The Civil War, Rebels Resurgent, Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville (Alexandria, VA: Time Life, 1985), 125.
43. Stephen Sears, Chancellorsville (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 212.
44. “Letter to Parents, Camp Nelson Taylor, May 9th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
45. Ibid.
46. O.R., series I, vol. 25, part I, 386.
47. Warner, Generals in Blue, 31–32.
48. F.H. Dyer, “70th–74th New York Infantry,” A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer, 1908), part 1, 297.
49. “Camp Nelson Taylor, May 9th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
50. “Report of John Leonard, May 8th, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 466.
51. “Report of Brigade General Joseph W. Revere, May 3rd, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 461.
52. “Letter to Parents, Camp Nelson Taylor, May 9th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. O.R., series I, vol. 25, part I, 471.
56. Ibid., 461.
57. “Sickles Report,” 388–90.
58. “Revere Report,” O.R., Series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 461.
59. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 88–89.
60. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp near Falmouth, Virginia,” May 7th, 1863.”
61. Ibid., “Letter to Parents, Camp Nelson Taylor, May 9th, 1863.”
62. O.R., ibid., “Report of Captain Francis E. Taylor, 74th N.Y., May 7th, 1863,” 469.
63. Ibid.
64. Sears, Chancellorsville, 321.
65. “Report of Captain John Poland, May 13th, 1863,” O.R., Series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 450.
66. Ibid.
67. “Sickles Report,” 391.
68. Ibid., “Tyler Report,” 470.
69. “Revere Report,” 462.
70. “The Roll of Honor, Colonel William O. Stevens, May 29th, 1863,” Jamestown Journal.
71. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 89.
72. Ibid.
73. Annual Report of Adjutant-General, 729.
74. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 89–90.
75. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp near Falmouth, Virginia May 7th, 1863.”
76. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 14.
77. Ibid., 15.
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. “Letter to Parents, May 9th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
81. “Report of Brigade General Joseph B. Carr, May 13th, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 445.
82. “Revere Report,” 462.
83. Ibid.
84. “Sickles Report,” 392.
85. “Report of Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Westbrook, May 7th, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 472.
86. “Revere Report,” 462–63.
87. “Carr Report,” O.R., series 1, vol., 25, part 1, 445–46.
88. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Chancellorsville (Alexandria, Virginia: Lifetime Books Press, 1998), 100.
89. “Revere Report,” 462.
90. “Sickles Report,” 392.
91. “Report of Colonel J. Egbert Farnum, May 7th, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol., 25, part 1, 464.
92. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 89.
93. “Letter to Parents, May 9th 1963,” Dean Family Collection.
94. Ibid.
95. “Leonard Report,” O.R., series 1, vol., 25, part 1, 467.
96. John S. Austin, Colonel Commander 3rd Regiment Excelsior Brigade, “Death of Captain Harmon J. Bliss, Company G. 3rd Excelsior,” 72nd N.Y. Volunteer Infantry Civil War Newspaper Clippings, Unit History Project, New York State Military Museum.
97. Lynch and Sandoli, Come Cry with Me, 123.
98. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 93–94.
99. W.F. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1866: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, with Full and Extensive Statistics Compiled from the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington (New York: Albany, 1889), various entries throughout.
100. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 231–32.
101. Joseph W. Revere, “A Statement of the Case of Brigadier-General Joseph W. Revere,” published in defense of Joseph W. Revere’s court-martial (New York: C. A. Alvord, 1863).
102. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 96–97.
103. “The Roll of Honor, Colonel William O. Stevens, May 29th, 1863,” Jamestown Journal, 72nd N.Y. Volunteer Infantry Civil War Newspaper Clippings, Unit History Project, New York State Military Museum.
104. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 98.
105. Ibid., 98–99.
106. Austin, “Death of Captain Harmon J. Bliss.”
107. William Swinton, “Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac” (New York: Scribner’s, 1882), 275.
1. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 123–24.
2. Annual Report of Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1901 (Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon, 1902), various entries for 72nd New York.
3. “72nd New York Volunteers,” Grand Army of the Republic Records, New York State Library Preservation Unit.
4. A.H. Guernsey and H.M. Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History of the Civil War (New York: Fairfax, 1866), 500.
5. James Dean Letters, Documents, and Memorials, courtesy of the Dean family, unpublished, rights to publish excerpts by generosity of the Dean family (henceforth referred to as the “Dean Family Collection”), “Letter to Parents, May 17th, 1863.”
6. Oates, Fighting for Home, 123–24.
7. “Letter to Parents, May 17th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
8. Walter H. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 199, citing John Bigelow, Jr., The Campaign of Chancellorsville (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910).
9. O.R., series 1, vol. 25, part 1, 171.
10. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 221.
11. Larry Tagg, The Generals of Gettysburg: The Leaders of America’s Greatest Battle (Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003), 77–78.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 73–74.
14. “Letter to Parents, May 26th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
15. Ibid.
16. Hebert, Fighting Joe Hooker, 232–34.
17. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), 192–93.
18. O.R., vol. 27, part 3, 3.
19. “Letter to Brother Daviḑ Camp Nelson Taylor, June 9th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
20. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 237.
21. Annual Report of Adjutant-General, various entries for 72nd New York.
22. “Receipt for Flag Dated June 3, 1863,” Third Excelsior Association Historical Collection.
23. “Letter to Rick Barram from Donald Cody and Richard Landwehrle, June 28th, 2009,” Austin Family History.
24. American Civil War Research Database, “Company K, 72nd New York Infantry” (Kingston, MA: American Civil War Research Database).
25. “General Order # 50, June 7th, 1863, Headquarters 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Camp Near Falmouth, Virginia,” Compiled Military Service File: John S. Austin, Company K, 72nd New York National Archives.
26. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 100.
27. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 240.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid., 243.
30. Ibid.
31. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 100.
32. Ibid., 100–01.
33. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 247.
34. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 103–04.
35. Oates, Fighting for Home, 129.
36. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 246.
37. O.R., vol. 27, part 1, 530.
38. Ibid., 531.
39. Ibid.
40. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 104.
41. O.R., vol. 27, part 1, 531.
42. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 209, citing Capt. C.A. Stevens, Berdan’s U.S. Sharpshooter (St. Paul: Price-McGill, 1892), 303–04.
43. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 208.
44. James A. Hessler, Sickles at Gettysburg (New York: Savas Beaties, 2009), 109.
45. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 482.
46. Ibid., 482–83.
47. Ibid., 483.
48. Ibid., 532.
49. Ibid., 531.
50. Ibid., 558.
51. Ibid., 532.
52. H.W. Pfanz, Gettysburg: The Second Day (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), 144, citing George G. Meade, Jr., With Meade at Gettysburg (Philadelphia: John C. Winton, 1930), 114.
53. Pfanz, Gettysburg, 144.
54. Pfanz, Gettysburg, citing Henry H. Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson Humphries: A Bibliography (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1924), 193–94.
55. Pfanz, Gettysburg, 313–17.
56. Ibid., 145, citing “Pennsylvania at Gettysburg,” citation 75.
57. Ibid., 145, citing “New York at Gettysburg,” citation 76.
58. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 532.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid., 558.
61. Ibid., 483.
62. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
63. Oates, Fighting for Home, 134.
64. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 533.
65. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 105.
66. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 483, 533.
67. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
68. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 559.
69. Ibid., 490.
70. Pfanz, Gettysburg, 347–48.
71. C. Van Santvoord, The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment NYS Volunteers in the Civil War (Saugerties: Hope Farm, 1997), 74.
72. Pfanz, Gettysburg, 349.
73. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 568.
74. Van Santvoord, One Hundred and Twentieth, 74.
75. Pfanz, Gettysburg, 349.
76. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 543.
77. Ibid., 533.
78. Ibid.
79. W.F. Fox, New York at Gettysburg (Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1900), 606
80. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 490.
81. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
82. Ibid.
83. O.R., ibid., “Report of Col. Austin,” 566.
84. Ibid., 533.
85. Ibid.
86. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
87. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 543.
88. Ibid., 559.
89. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
90. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 143.
91. Ibid., 105.
92. Ibid.
93. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
94. Ibid.
95. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible, 220.
96. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Gettysburg, July 6th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
97. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 559.
98. Ibid.
99. Ibid., 560.
100. W.F. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–186: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, with Full and Extensive Statistics Compiled from the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington (New York: Albany Publishing, 1889), 607.
101. Ibid., 822.
102. Ibid., 593.
103. Ibid., 594.
104. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 565.
105. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 490.
1. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), 222–23.
2. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: Gettysburg (Alexandria, VA: Lifetime, 1998), 145.
3. Jeffry Wert, The Sword of Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 305–09.
4. O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 78.
5. Don Edward and Virginia Fehrenbacher, eds., Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), 166.
6. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln, 305.
7. Ibid., 305–06.
8. American Civil War Research Database, Kingston M.A. “Company K, 72ND New York Infantry,” various entries (Kingston, MA: American Civil War Research Database).
9. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln, 307.
10. E.J. Werner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 162.
11. Ibid., 386–87.
12. Ibid., 467.
13. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 115.
14. James Dean Letters, Documents, and Memorials, courtesy of the Dean family, unpublished, rights to publish excerpts by generosity of the Dean family (henceforth referred to as the “Dean Family Collection”), “Letter to Sister, July 12th, 1863.”
15. Ibid.
16. Shelby Foote, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian (New York: Vintage, 1986), 592.
17. A.H. Guernsey and H.M. Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History of the Civil War (New York: Fairfax, 1866), 516.
18. Ibid.
19. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln, 310–11.
20. “Report of Henry Prince,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 538.
21. Hiram Stoddard, Wartime Letters of Hiram Stoddard, Company I, 72nd NYSV (unpublished; courtesy of Gowanda Area Historical Society, New York), “Letter to Parents, Camp near Westmount, Virginia, July 27th, 1863.”
22. “Report of French,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 489.
23. Ibid.
24. “Reports of Brewster, Farnum,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 560–61.
25. “Report of Captain Lovell Purdy,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, #107, 205.
26. “Report of French,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, #43, 489.
27. Ibid., 490.
28. Ibid.
29. “Report of C. H. Andrews,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 2, #44, 626.
30. “Report of French,” 490.
31. “Report of Henry Prince,” 538.
32. “Report of C. H. Andrews,” 626.
33. Ibid.
34. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 18.
35. “Report of French,” 490.
36. Ibid.
37. “Report of Captain Lovell Purdy,” 205.
38. “Letter to Parents, July 28th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
39. Ibid.
40. “Letter to Parents, August 10th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
41. “Letter to Parents, July 28th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
42. “Report of Colonel John S. Austin,” O.R., vol. 27, part 1, #47, 567.
43. “Letter to Parents, July 28th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
44. “Report of Andrews,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 2, #44, 626–27.
45. Ibid.
46. “Letter to Parents, July 28th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
47. “Prince Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 539.
48. “Report of R.E. Rodes,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 2, #44, 560–61.
49. “Report of William R. Brewster,” O.R., vol. 27, part 1, #43, 562.
50. “Report of Colonel Austin,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 2, 567.
51. “Prince Report,” 538.
52. Ibid.
53. “Report of Colonel Farnum,” O.R., vol. 27, part 1, #43, 561.
54. “Letter to Parents, July 28th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. “Report of Prince,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 539.
58. Ibid.
59. “Report of R.E. Rodes,” 561.
60. “Report of Major William H. Hugo,” O.R, series 1, vol. 27, part 1, #43, 564.
61. Guernsey and Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History, 518.
62. “Report of Farnum,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 561.
63. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp near Warrenton, Virginia, July 27th, 1863.”
64. “Report of Brewster,” O.R., series 1, vol. 27, part 1, 562.
65. Stoddard, Wartime Letters.
66. Ibid.
67. “Report of Captain Lovell Purdy,” 206.
68. Annual Report of Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1901 (Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon, 1902), 831.
69. Annual Report of Adjutant-General, multiple entries cited: 741, 802, 865, 796, and 805.
70. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp near Warrenton, Virginia, August 12th, 1863.”
71. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp near Warrenton, Virginia, July 27th, 1863.”
72. Ibid.
73. “Letter to Parents, August 10th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
74. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 237–59.
75. Stoddard, Wartime Letters.
76. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 145–146.
77. “Letter to Parents, September 9th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
78. Gregory Jaynes, Time-Life: The Civil War Series, vol. 1, “The Killing Ground: Wilderness to Cold Harbor” (New York: Time Life Education, 1986), 28.
79. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 262.
80. Ibid.
81. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Beverly Ford,” September 14th, 1863.
82. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Culpepper,” Virginia, September 26th, 1863.
83. Oates, Fighting for Home, 142–43.
84. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 264.
85. “Letter to Parents, September 22nd, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
86. Jaynes, Time-Life: The Civil War Series, 28.
87. Shelby Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 786.
88. Ibid., 786–84, 789.
89. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 119.
90. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 267.
91. Ibid.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid., 267–68.
94. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln, 310–11.
95. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 267.
96. Ibid.
97. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 119.
98. Shelby Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 787.
99. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 267–68.
100. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 120.
101. Shelby Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 795.
102. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 270.
103. Committee of the Conduct of the War (1865), vol. 1, 304.
104. “Bristoe Station,” www.mycivilwar.com, accessed March 14, 2013.
105. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 120.
106. “Letter to Parents, October 27th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
107. Ibid.
108. Ibid.
109. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 800.
110. Annual Report of Adjutant-General, 839–40.
111. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 120.
112. Guernsey and Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History, 521.
113. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 276.
114. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 801.
115. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 277.
116. Ibid.
117. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 801–02.
118. Guernsey and Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History, 521.
119. Ibid.
120. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 278.
121. “Letter to Brother, Camp near Brandy Station November 22nd, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
122. Ibid.
123. National Park Service, “Battle of Mine Run,” brochure, www.nps.gov/frsp/mine.htm, accessed February 8, 2013.
124. Ibid.
125. Ibid.
126. “Prince Report,” O.R., series I, vol. 29, #48, 761.
127. “French Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 737.
128. Ibid., 737–38.
129. “Prince Report,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 761.
130. Ibid.
131. Ibid., 761–62.
132. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 280.
133. “Prince Report,” 761–62.
134. National Park Service, “Battle of Mine Run.”
135. “Prince Report,” 762.
136. Ibid.
137. Ibid., 763.
138. Ibid.
139. Ibid.
140. Ibid.
141. “Report of Colonel Robert McAllister,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 768.
142. “Prince Report,” 763.
143. “Report of Lieutenant Colonel John Leonard,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 772.
144. National Park Service, “Battle of Mine Run.”
145. “Letter to Parents, Camp near Brandy Station, December 5th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
146. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 280.
147. Ibid.
148. “Report of Colonel John Leonard,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 772.
149. “Letter to Parents, Camp near Brandy Station, December 5th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
150. “Report of Colonel John Leonard,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 772.
151. “Letter to Parents, Camp near Brandy Station, December 5th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
152. O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 772.
153. Ibid.
154. “Report of Prince,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 763–64.
155. Ibid., 764.
156. Ibid.
157. Ibid., 763.
158. National Park Service, “Battle of Mine Run.”
159. “Letter to Parents, Camp near Brandy Station, December 5th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
160. Ibid.
161. Ibid.
162. Ibid.
163. Ibid.
164. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 282.
165. “Report of Major General Jubal A. Early,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 833.
166. National Park Service, “Battle of Mine Run.”
167. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 282.
168. Ibid., 282–83.
169. “Report of Prince,” 764.
170. Guernsey and Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History, 523.
171. “Reports of William H. French,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 740.
172. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 283.
173. Guernsey and Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History, 523.
174. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 284.
175. “Report of French,” 740.
176. “Report of Prince,” 764.
177. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 121.
178. “Letter from A. A. Humphries, Chief of Staff, to French, December 3rd, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 746.
179. Ibid.
180. “Letter from French, December 14th, 1863,” O.R., series 1, vol. 29, part 1, 743.
181. Ibid.
182. “Letter to Parents, Camp Near Brandy Station, December 14th, 1863,” Dean Family Collection.
183. Ibid.
1. James Dean Letters, Documents, and Memorials, courtesy of the Dean family, unpublished, rights to publish excerpts by generosity of the Dean family (henceforth referred to as the “Dean Family Collection”), “Letter to Parents, Camp near Brandy Station December 13th, 163.”
2. B. Catton, The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox (Garden City: Doubleday, 1953), 1–2.
3. Ibid., 33–34.
4. Ibid., 34.
5. New York Times, “Re-Enlistment of Troops—An Important Movement in the Army,” November 9, 1863.
6. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 145–46.
7. “Letter to Parents, November 1863, Camp Near Brandy Station,” Dean Family Collection.
8. “Letter to Brother, November 22nd, 1863, Camp Near Brandy Station,” Dean Family Collection.
9. Lucius Jones, Jr., In the War of the Rebellion from 1861 to 1865 (New York: Fredonia, 1913), 21.
10. Paul Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness (Alexandria, VA: Lifetime, 1998), 11.
11. W.F. Fox, New York at Gettysburg (Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1900), “Oration of Lieutenant Colonel John N. Cayne of the First Excelsior,” 595.
12. Henri LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment Excelsior Brigade 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry 1861–1865 (Jamestown, NY: Journal, 1902), 137–38.
13. Fox, New York at Gettysburg, 595.
14. G.C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness: May 5–6, 1864 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 1–4.
15. Ibid., 3–6.
16. Christopher Ryan Oates, Fighting for Home: The Story of Alfred K. Oates and the Fifth Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Cornelius, NC: Warren, 2006), 149–50.
17. Compiled Military Service File: John S. Austin, Company K, 72nd New York National Archives, “General Courts Martial, General Order # 13, February 11th–16th, 1864.”
18. “Letter to Brigade Head Quarters from John S. Austin, January 29th, 1864,” Compiled Military Service File: John Leonard, Company F, 72nd New York National Archives.
19. Ibid.
20. Compiled Military Service File: John Leonard, Company F, 72nd New York National Archives, “Letter to Brigade Head Quarters from John S. Austin, January 30th, 1864.”
21. “Letter to Honorable Hugh Hastings, from Henri Le-Fevre Brown, February 22nd, 1898,” Veteran’s Association Notes from Henri Le-Fevre Brown, 1898–1899, Grand Army of the Republic Records, 72nd New York Volunteers, New York State Library Preservation Unit.
22. “General Courts Martial General Order #13, February 11th–16th, 1864,” Compiled Military Service File: John S. Austin, Company K, 72nd New York National Archives.
23. A.H. Guernsey and H.M. Alden, Harper’s Pictoral History of the Civil War (New York: Fairfax, 1866), 624.
24. Ibid.
25. G.C. Rhea, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern: May 7–12, 1864 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), 11.
26. Ibid., 10–11.
27. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 123.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. “Letter to Parents, April 4th, 1864, Camp Stevens,” Dean Family Collection.
31. “Correspondence of the Journal. Letter from the 3d Excelsior, Camp of the 3d Excelsior, near Brandy Station, Virginia., March 26, 1864,” 72nd Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Civil War Newspaper Clippings, New York State Military Museum.
32. Gregory Jaynes, Time-Life: The Civil War Series, vol. 1, “The Killing Ground: Wilderness to Cold Harbor” (New York: Time Life Education, 1986), 37.
33. “Letter to Parents, April 4th, 1864, Camp Stevens,” Dean Family Collection.
34. “Correspondence of the Journal. Letter from the 3d Excelsior, Camp of the 3d Excelsior, near Brandy Station, Virginia., March 26, 1864,” 72nd Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Civil War Newspaper Clippings, New York State Military Museum.
35. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, April 19th, 1864, Camp Stevens, Near Brandy Station.”
36. Ibid.
37. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 123.
38. Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press), 298.
39. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 125.
40. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 23.
41. F.H. Dyer, “70th–74th New York Infantry,” A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer, 1908), part 1, 293.
42. E.J. Werner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 333–38.
43. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 125.
44. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 23–24.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid., 24–25.
47. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 125.
48. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 22.
49. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 60–61.
50. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 126.
51. Ibid.
52. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 126–27.
53. “Report of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Burns,” O.R., series 1, vol. 36, part 1, 503.
54. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 143.
55. “Report of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Burns,” O.R., series 1, vol. 36, part 1, 503.
56. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 126–27.
57. Ibid., 143.
58. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 65.
59. Jeffry Wert, The Sword of Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 343.
60. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 127.
61. Wert, The Sword of Lincoln, 345.
62. Rhea, Battle of the Wilderness, 89–91.
63. Ibid., 124.
64. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 127–28.
65. Ibid., 128.
66. Rhea, Battle of the Wilderness, 165.
67. Ibid., 167–68.
68. Ibid., 165–68.
69. Ibid., 169–75.
70. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 302.
71. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 128.
72. Rhea, Battle of the Wilderness, 215–21.
73. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 128–29.
74. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 86–87.
75. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 129.
76. Rhea, Battle of the Wilderness, 292.
77. Ibid., 308.
78. Congressional Medal of Honor List, “Medal of Honor Recipients,” The Third Excelsior Association, http://www.72ndnewyork.org/MEDALOFHONOR.htm.
79. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 124.
80. Ibid., 87.
81. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 129–30.
82. James Dean, ibid., “Letter to Parents, North of Richmond, Virginia, Chickahominy Swamp, [September], 1864.”
83. Rhea, Battle of the Wilderness, 302–07.
84. Ibid., 324–27.
85. “Burney’s Orders, May 13th, 1864,” O.R., series 1, vol. 32, part 68, 711–12.
86. Jaynes, Time-Life: The Civil War Series, 125.
87. “Letter to Parents, North of Richmond, Virginia, Chickahominy Swamp, [September], 1864,” Dean Family Collection.
88. Ibid.
89. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, in the Rifle Pits, May 16th, 1864.”
90. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 151.
91. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 131.
92. C.G. Rhea, To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–24, 1864 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 139–49.
93. Ibid., 159.
94. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 131.
95. C.G. Rhea, ibid.
96. Ibid., 160.
97. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 132.
98. Mathless, Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, 151.
99. C.G. Rhea, ibid., 167–168.
100. Ibid., 171–75.
101. Ibid., 181–85.
102. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 131.
103. Ibid., 132.
104. Rhea, North Anna River, 261, 279.
105. “Grant to Meade,” O.R., series 1, vol. 36, part 3, 81–82.
106. Rhea, North Anna River, 289–88.
107. Ibid., 294, 300–01.
108. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 132.
109. Annual Report of Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1901 (Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon, 1902), 731.
110. “Letter to Parents, North of Richmond, Virginia, Chickahominy Swamp, [September], 1864,” Dean Family Collection.
111. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 132–33.
112. Rhea, North Anna River, 302–03.
113. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 132–33.
114. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Brother, In Line of Battle Near Hanover, Virginia, May 29th, 1864,”
115. Shelby Foote, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian (New York: Vintage), 267–68.
116. Rhea, North Anna River, 304–15.
117. Ibid., 320–23.
118. Ibid.
119. Ibid., 330, 337–41.
120. Ibid., 331–33.
121. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 133.
122. Rhea, North Anna River, 344–46.
123. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 133.
124. Rhea, North Anna River, 352.
125. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 133.
126. C. Van Santvoord, The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment NYS Volunteers in the Civil War (Saugerties: Hope Farm, 1997), account of the battle by a “Member of the Regiment,” 130.
127. Rhea, North Anna River, 353.
128. Ibid., 360–62, 367.
129. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 133–34.
130. C.G. Rhea, Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26–June 3, 1864 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 22–23.
131. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “In line of Battle, Near Hanover, Virginia, May 29th, 1864.”
132. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 133.
133. Ibid., 133–34.
134. Rhea, Cold Harbor, 189–90.
135. Ibid., 263–64.
136. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 134.e
137. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 288.
138. Ibid.
139. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 134.
140. Jaynes, Time-Life: The Civil War Series, 156–58.
141. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 291.
142. Ibid.
143. Jaynes, Time-Life: The Civil War Series, 165.
144. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 292.
145. Ibid., 295–96.
146. Ibid.
147. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 134.
148. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “Letter to Parents, in Line of Battle, 8 Miles from Richmond, Virginia, June 8th, 1864.”
149. Ibid.
150. Ibid.
151. Ibid.
152. Ibid.
153. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 299–300.
154. Ibid., 300.
155. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 134.
156. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 427–29.
157. Messent and Courtney, Civil War Letters, 305.
158. Ibid.
159. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 24.
160. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 136.
161. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 24.
162. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 136–37.
163. Ibid., 136.
164. Ibid.
165. Ibid.
166. Ibid., 136–37.
167. Ibid., 137.
168. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 25.
169. Foote, Civil War: Fredericksburg to Meridian, 431.
170. Stoddard, Wartime Letters, “In Line of Battle Near Petersburg, June 19th, 1864.”
171. LeFevre-Brown, History of the Third Regiment, 137.
172. Ibid.
173. Jones, War of the Rebellion, 25.
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23. W.A. Swanberg, Sickles the Incredible (Gettysburg: Stan Clark Military Books, 1956), chapters 21–36.