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294 Lee himself found some consolation: Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 98.

294 Even though White House was: Ibid., 101.

294 In two of the blank pages: Ibid., 99–101.

301 Although Confederate knowledge: Colonel Vincent J. Esposito, The West Point Atlas of the American Wars, 1689–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1959), Vol. 1, text accompanying map 39.

303 He understood at once: Peter Cozzens, Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), 23–25.

303 If one thinks of the Valley Pike: Ibid., 22.

304 “with the serenest faith”: C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 361.

305 “a constant supervision”: Walter H. Taylor, Four Years with General Lee (New York: Appleton, 1878), 38.

305 By April 9: Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon, 172.

305 This was an unparalleled: Ibid., 168.

306 “No one but McClellan”: Ibid., 180.

306 He arrived there on April 13: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 2, 21.

307 “War of posts”: Letter to John Hancock, September 8, 1776, Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Dorothy Twohig, ed. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994), Vol. 6, 249.

308 “exhibited . . . a patient persistence”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 17.

308 He advised Magruder: Ibid., 19.

309 On April 21: James Robertson, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (New York: Macmillan, 1997), 364.

310 “I cannot pretend”: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XII, Part 3, 866.

312 It was an extraordinary achievement: Shenandoah, 1862 (New York: Time-Life Books, 1997), 9.

313 He had warned Mary: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 101.

314 “the Confederate army had disappeared”: Le Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1886), Vol. 2, 12.

314 He had preserved his army: Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 2, 46.

315 a complaint obviously directed: Ibid., 45.

315 Lee tactfully deflected: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Vol. XI, Part III (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884), 500.

316 “Northern soldiers who profess”: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 102.

316 Lee managed to send two aides: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 251–55.

317 “against General McClellan’s orders”: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 104–7.

319 Lee apparently answered: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 48.

320 “tears ran down his 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.