The text and background of the General Order Number 11 issued on August 25, 1863 at the direction of General Thomas Ewing (“Redlegs”) can be found at the Missouri Partisan Ranger website, http://www.rulen.com/partisan/order11.htm.
The text and background of the General Order Number 11 issued on December 17, 1862 at the direction of General Ulysses Grant can be found at the Jewish Virtual Library website, http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/antisemitism/grant.html.
A comprehensive examination of the controversy surrounding the career, trial, and execution of Robert Brassilach and its aftermath is available in The Collaborator by Alice Kaplan (The University of Chicago Press 2000). The Brassilach statements quoted or paraphrased in Unforced Error are my translations of his actual words as cited in Chapter IV of Bruno Poncharal’s French translation of Kaplan’s study, Intelligence avec l’Ennemi: Le Procès Brassilach (Editions Gallimard 2001). Those statements in the original are, respectively: “Il faut se separer des Juifs en bloc et ne pas garder de petits.”; and “…j’ai…même écrit qu’on ne devait pas séparer les femmes des enfants…. ”
For details on Civil War weaponry, uniforms, and military terminology, I have relied on Robin Smith and Ron Field, Uniforms of the Civil War (The Lyons Press 2001).