Endnotes for Ball's Bluff: An Overview
1. Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations... (New York: D. Appleton, 1874), pp. 76-77.
2. U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and the Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893) (hereafter cited as OR), ser. 1, vol 5, pp. 16, 293.
3. Ibid., p. 350.
4. Ibid., pp. 32, 349.
5. Ibid., pp. 32,33.
6. Ibid., p. 293.
7. Ibid.; Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (hereafter cited as RJCCW), 3 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1863), testimony of General Stone, p. 277.
8. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 33.
9. RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, p. 267. Quote from OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, pt. 1, pp. 557-58.
10. Quote from RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, p. 277. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 299
11. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Lee, p. 474, and of Capt Dennis De Courcy, p. 304; William L. Haskin, The History of the First Regiment of Artillery... (Portland, Oreg.: B. Thurston, 1879), p. 150; John H. Rhodes, The History of Battery B, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War To Preserve the Union, 1861 (Providence, R.I.: Snow & Farnham, 1894), p. 33.
12. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, pp. 299-300; RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Devens, pp. 404-05, and of Colonel Lee, p. 475.
13. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Devens, pp. 405-06, and of Lieutenant Howe, p. 375.
14. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p.294.
15. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Lee, p. 476.
16. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 363; RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Devens, p. 406.
17. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 368; Kenneth L. Stiles, 4th Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1985) , pp. 7-8; Michael P. Musick, 6th Virginia Calvary (lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1990), p. 5.
18. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, pp. 308,353.
19. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Lee, pp. 476-77.
20. OR, ser. 1, vol. 51, pt. 1, p. 498.
21. Ibid., p. 309, and vol. 5, pp. 309-10.
22. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Lee, p. 477, and of Lieutenant Howe, p. 376.
23. First quote from Ibid., testimony of Colonel Lee, p. 477. Second quote from Ibid., testimony of Lieutenant Howe, p. 376.
24. Ibid., testimony of Colonel Wistar, p. 307.
25. Ibid., testimony of General Stone, p. 275.
26. Ibid., testimony of Lieutenant Howe, p. 376.
27. First quote from OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 33. Second and third quotes from Ibid., vol. 51, pt. 1, p. 499.
28. Ibid., vol. 5, pp. 368-69.
29. RJCCW, testimony of Lieutenant Howe, p. 377; of Colonel Lee, p. 476; and of Col Edward W. Hinks, p. 435.
30. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 364; RJCCW, testimony of Lieutenant Howe, p. 377.
31. RJCCW, testimony of Major Bannister, p. 283.
32. OR, ser. 1, vol. 51, pt. 1, 502.
33. First quote from RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Lee, p. 478. Second quote from Ibid., testimony of Colonel Devens, p. 408.
34. Ibid., testimony of Colonel Devens, p. 408.
35. OR, ser. 1, vol. 51, pt. 1, 500.
36. First quote from RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, p. 488. Second and third quotes from OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 321.
37. RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, p. 488.
38. Ibid., testimony of Colonel Lee, p. 479.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid., testimony of Colonel Wistar, p. 312; OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, pp. 364, 367, 370.
41. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5 , p. 34.
42. George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861- 1865 (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. 59.
43. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 322.
44. Ibid., p. 367. Quote from Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, pp. 51-52.
45. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Devens, p. 410.
46. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 361.
47. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel DEvens, pp. 410-11.
48. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 324.
49. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, p. 54.
50. Ibid., pp. 56-57.
51. RJCCW, testimony of Colonel Hinks, p. 436; OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 325; Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, p. 55.
52. RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, p. 487.
53. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 34. quote from Ibid., vol. 51, pt. 1, p. 498.
54. RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, pp. 488-89.
55. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, p. 313.
56. Stephen W. Sears, ed., The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865 (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989), p. 111.
57. OR, ser. 1, vol. 5, pp. 308-353.
58. Quote from RJCCW, testimony of General Stone, p. 269, and see also p. 491.
59. Quote from Ibid., p. 490, and see also pp. 489, 491.
60. Ibid., p. 268.
61. Sears, The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 111.
Return to Contents
 |
|
Last updated 13 July 2006 |