Clouds of Glory

260 Lee sent a young man: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 36.

260 Her daughter Mildred: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 90.

260 Mary’s maid Selina: Scott and Webb, Who Is Markie? 134–35.

261 And true to form: Colonel Vincent J. Esposito, The West Point Atlas of the American Wars, 1689–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1959), Vol. 1, see text accompanying map 19.

263 “You are green”: Edwin C. Bearrs, Fields of Honor (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006), 35.

263 McDowell himself had never: Wikipedia, “Irvin McDowell,” 1.

263 Even the date of McDowell’s advance: Bearrs, Fields of Honor, 35.

264 Apart from that: Ibid.

264 McDowell’s first mistake: Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History, Clement Anselm Evans, ed. (Atlanta, Ga.: Confederate Publishing, 1899), Vol. 3, 107.

265 Flowing from west: Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (New York: Library of America, 2012), 29.

266 Bee, impressed by Jackson’s: Sarah Nicholas Randolph, The Life of Stonewall Jackson (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1876), 86.

267 “We have whipped them”: Hunter McGuire, M.D., “An Address at the Dedication of Jackson Memorial Hall, Virginia Military Institute, July 9, 1897” (R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, 1897), 6.

267 “no preparations whatever”: David Detzer, Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2004), 486.

267 Even Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton: Frank Abial Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion (Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, 1905), 109.

268 “pouring through this place”: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, “Abraham Lincoln: A History,” Century Illustrated Magazine (New York: Century, 1888), Vol. 36, 288.

269 All that was missing: George Francis Robert Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (New York: Longmans, Green, 1900), Vol. 1, 154.

269 Mary Lee and her girls: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 91.

269 The next day, in the pouring rain: Ibid.

270 “The empty saddle”: Woodward, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 106–7.

270 He also broke the news: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 37.

270 The military situation: R. Lockwood Tower, ed., Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862–1865 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 7.

271 Lee’s own position: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 541.

272 He would write to Mary: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, August 4, 1861, Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 38–39.

272 Brigadier General Henry R. Jackson: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 543–44.

272 “jaded and galled”: Ibid., 544.

275 “Our troops, I know”: Ibid., 556, n5.

276 “had lived with gentle people”: Ibid., 552.

278 The attack was set: Ibid., 565.

279 “the right branch of the Elkwater Fork”: Ibid., 568.

279 Curiously enough: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 46–47.

280 On September 19 Lee rode: Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 31.

281 The Richmond Examiner dismissed: James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 302.

281 “I am sorry, as you say”: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 51.

284 His original name was: “General Robert E. Lee’s War Horses: Traveller and Lucy Long,” Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 18, January-December 1890, 388–91.

284 The Broun brothers: Ibid.

284 Lee had several horses: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 54.

285 Even Jefferson Davis: Ibid., 53.

285 “the best man available”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 607.

286 Lee quickly set about: Ibid., 615, 614.

286 “an unromantic routine”: Ibid., 614.

287 “Had some old English cathedral crypt”: Ibid., 612.

288 “achievement . . . unworthy of any”: Ibid., 618.

288 “As to our old home”: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 59.

289 Lee did not gloat: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, February 8, 1862, Ibid., 64.

289 “If circumstances will”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 628.

CHAPTER 7 The Seven Days—“The Power of the Sword”

291 “The power of the sword”: Job 5:20.

291 There was a movement: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 2, 6.

291 “the conduct of military operations”: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. V (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881), 1099; National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), April 14, 1861.

293 The ostensible reason: Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 1, 2, 3.

293 Of course what nobody: Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1988), 108–9.

293 “cautious and weak”: Ibid., 180; George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, April 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

293 “There was no hesitation”: A. L. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee (New York: J. M. Stoddard, 1886), 435.

294 “In audacity”: J. F. C. Fuller, Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933), 267.