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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 time: Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 88.

370 Just before six o’clock: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 153.

370 The sound of firing: Ibid.

371 “Sweep the field with the bayonet!”: Dabney, Life and Campaigns of Lieut. General Thomas J. Jackson, 163; Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 481 and 875 n62.

371 “the incessant roar of musketry”: Page, Letters of a War Correspondent, 5.

372 “The men were within twenty yards”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 155.

372 Lee’s aide Major Taylor: Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 69.

372 “A motley mob”: Page, Letters of a War Correspondent, 7.

372 “Scores of riderless”: Ibid.

373 “I have lost this battle”: George Francis Robert, Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (New York: Longmans, Green, 1900), Vol. 2, 239; Sears, George B. McClellan, 213–14.

374 With commendable restraint Lincoln: Walter H. Taylor, Four Years with General Lee (New York: Appleton, 1878), 47.

374 “Jackson’s whole force”: “General Estimates of the Rebel Forces in Virginia,” ibid., 71.

374 “A train was heard approaching”: Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 89.

376 Magruder was anxious: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 165.

377 The rough-and-ready reconstruction: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 489.

378 The result was a bloody draw: Wikipedia, “Battle of Savage’s Station.”