cheeks”: J. H. Reagan, Memoirs: With Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War (New York: Neale, 1906), 139.
321 Although “the fate of the Confederacy”: Ibid.
321 “if he was not going to give battle”: Ibid.
321 McClellan was advancing “cautiously”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 58.
321 He still believed: Sears, George B. McClellan, 189.
323 “If Lee was the Jove of the war”: Walter Herron Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861–1865 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 46.
323 On May 30: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 66.
323 At the junction: Ibid., 68.
323 “witnessed the advance”: Reagan, Memoirs, 141.
324 “I protested”: Ibid.
324 Johnston had replied: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 72.
324 Shortly after this news: Reagan, Memoirs, 141.
325 For the moment: Colonel Vincent J. Esposito, The West Point Atlas of the American Wars, 1689–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1959), Vol. 1, text accompanying map 43.
325 “as much mud”: Charles Dickens, Bleak House, in The Works of Charles Dickens (New York: Scribner, 1899), Vol. XVI, 1.
325 Davis and Lee rode back: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 74.
325 In the judgment of J. F. C. Fuller: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 156.
328 bayonets were responsible for less: Wikipedia, “Bayonet.”
328 “in a state of utter exhaustion”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 196.
328 “his communications and the immense park”: Le Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America, Vol. 2, 69.
328 he left things as they were: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 77.
329 “feeble and accomplished nothing”: Esposito, The West Point Atlas of the American Wars, 1689–1900, Vol. 1, text accompanying map 43.
329 “After much reflection I think”: Robert E. Lee, Lee’s Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of Robert E. Lee (New York: Putnam, 1915), 5.
332 “conducted with your usual skill”: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XII, Part 3 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885), 908.
333 “Leave your enfeebled troops”: Ibid., 910.
334 “In moving your troops”: Ibid., 913.
334 He put J. E. B. Stuart: Ibid., 916.
335 McClellan’s left was anchored: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 96.
335 Stuart set off: Jeffrey D. Wert, Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 103.
335 “a tasseled yellow sash”: Ibid., 94.
337 “That will depend on the time”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 102.
339 “Honest A has again fallen”: Sears, George B. McClellan, 200–1.
339 “I will then have them”: Ibid., 201, 204.
339 Jackson spent that day: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 460–61.
339 He wore no badges: Ibid., 461.
339 In the mid-afternoon: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 107.
340 Hill shepherded: Ibid., 109.
340 Jackson was thirty-eight: Ibid.
340 Like Lee, Longstreet: Ibid.
341 When asked when his army: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 466.
343 He ordered General Samuel P. Heintzelman: Sears, George B. McClellan, 204.
344 “If there is one man”: Emory Thomas, Robert E. Lee (New York: Norton, 1995), 226.
344 Though Lee could not have: Sears, George B. McClellan, 205.
345 “Stonewall is coming up”: C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 395.
345 Had McClellan chosen: Sears, George B. McClellan, 205–6.
346 He had willed himself: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 104.
348 “The four divisions”: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XI, Part 2 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884), 499.
348 “In your march”: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 469.
348 In the days when roads: Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 66.
349 Even the faithful Walter Taylor: Ibid., 65.
349 “The Confederate commanders”: Richard Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War, Richard B. Harwell, ed. (New York: Longmans Green, 1955), 107–8.
349 Jackson had given himself: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 476.
349 On June 24: Ibid., 467.
350 His assistant adjutant general: Ibid., 360.
350 Dabney had no military experience: Ibid., 467.
351 It may have been that: Ibid., 469.
351 “underway” by 2:30 a.m.: Ibid., 470.
353 Stuart and his cavalry: Ibid., 471.
353 Jackson had accepted: Ibid., 470.
355 As Jackson understood his orders: Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command (New York: Scribner, 1942), Vol. 1, 513.
355 From here, he could see: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 125.
356 If Lee felt any anxiety: Ibid., 127.
356 Even before then Lee: Ibid., 129.
357 It was after 5 p.m.: Ibid., 130.
357 “It is not my army”: Ibid., 132.
357 He dictated an order: Ibid.
358 Instead, McClellan: Sears, George B. McClellan, 209.
359 “to think we are invincible”: Ibid., 208–10.
360 Porter was too busy: Ibid., 210.
361 “the seedy appearance”: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 476.
362 “This position, three miles”: Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 87.
362 Lee’s plan was that Jackson: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 142.
363 It was 11 a.m.: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 476.
363 “‘Gentlemen,’ Lee said to his staff”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 144.
363 At 2:30 p.m. A.P. Hill attacked: Ibid., 146.
364 He had deployed his men: Ibid., 148.
364 The Confederate soldiers from A. P. Hill’s division: Ibid., 146–47.
365 A Union war correspondent: Charles A. Page, Letters of a War Correspondent, James R. Gilmore, ed. (Boston: L. C. Page, 1899), 5–6.
365 “brutally repulsed”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee.
365 The Timberlake family’s farm: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 477.
367 Jackson ordered the twenty-six-year-old: Ibid., 476.
367 Private Timberlake began to explain: Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants, Vol. 1, 524.
368 Though Private Timberlake could not have known it: Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Campaigns of Lieut. General Thomas J. Jackson (New York: Blelock, 1866), 443.
369 “No, let us trust”: Ibid., 444.
369 The Federals were not retreating: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 149.
370 There was no
