Soldiers’ diaries, letters, and memoirs constitute an essential element in this account of the Peninsula campaign, and I am greatly indebted to the curatorial staffs of the manuscript collections in which they were found.
Particular thanks are due Michael P. Musick, the National Archives; Margaret R. Goostray, Boston University Library; Linda McCurdy, William L. Perkins Library, Duke University; Barbara Cain and Kenrick N. Simpson, Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources; John E. White, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina; Barbara A. Filipac, John Hay Library, Brown University; Richard J. Sommers, U.S. Army Military History Institute; Susan Ravdin, Bowdoin College Library; Galen R. Wilson, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan; Karen M. Mason, Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; Charlotte Ray, Georgia Department of Archives and History; Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., Alderman Library, University of Virginia; Ann Alley, Tennessee State Library and Archives; Kathy Knox, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University; and Harold B. Simpson, Hill College.
Also, Ellen R. Strong, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary; James M. Mahony, Dinand Library, College of the Holy Cross; Giuseppe Bisaccia, Boston Public Library; Judy Bolton, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University; Rhonda Everson, Minnesota Historical Society; H. T. Holmes, Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Gregory Kendall-Curtis, Maine Historical Society; Debbie Tapley, New Hampshire Historical Society; William F. Hannah, Old Colony Historical Society; Linda A. Ries, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Linda J. Long, Stanford University Library; Herbert J. Hartsook, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina; William H. Richter, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas; Harold L. Miller, State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Laura H. Katz, Virginia Tech Library; and Corrine P. Hudgins, Museum of the Confederacy.
Edwin C. Fishel of Arlington, Virginia, furnished invaluable guidance in Civil War military intelligence. Mark Grimsley of Columbus, Ohio, kindly granted me access to his translation of the Comte de Paris journal. John Robinson of Chesterland, Ohio, let me see the E. O. Hicks diary, and Gloria Conklin, of Chappaqua, New York, the Brigham Buswell memoir. Generous in sharing information on the campaign were Herbert M. Schiller of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; William Marvel of South Conway, New Hampshire; William F. Howard of Albany, New York; Brian C. Pohanka of Alexandria, Virginia; Edward Maturniak of Allendale, New Jersey; Frederick W. Chesson of Waterbury, Connecticut; Lynne Roffino of Mesquite, Texas; William M. Ferraro of Brown University; Steven Smith of the University of Virginia; and Mary M. Ison, Library of Congress.
Betty L. Krimminger of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Paul Bernard of Ann Arbor, Michigan, provided invaluable research assistance.