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470 Mayor-General J. F. C. Fuller turns positively apoplectic: Ibid., 168.

471 The two men reached Hagerstown: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 366.

472 At this moment of crisis: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 179.

473 Whatever Lee hoped, at this point: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 369.

473 “at daylight”: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 179.

474 This was hardly surprising: Wikipedia, “Battle of Harpers Ferry,” 6.

474 Lee was relieved by this good news: Esposito, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, text accompanying map 67.

475 It was only twelve miles: Wikipedia, “Battle of Harpers Ferry,” 6.

477 Lee would be obliged to fight: Esposito, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, text accompanying map 67.

477 On the morning of September 16: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 381.

477 “if he had had a well-equipped”: Ibid.

478 He expressed only the rather vague intention: Esposito, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, text accompanying map 67.

479 Federal artillery was already firing: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 382.

479 At 4:30 a.m. Lee was awake: Ibid., 387.

480 Even “Fighting Joe” Hooker: Ronald H. Bailey, Antietam: The Bloodiest Day (New York: Time-Life Books, 1984), 70.

481 Around 7:30 a.m.: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 391.

481 “to be sent to Jackson”: Ibid., 390.

481 Lee’s faithful aide: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 134.

482 Long, who was beside Lee: Ibid., 131.

482 Everywhere on the field: Rufus Robinson Dawes, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers (Marietta, Ohio: E. R. Alderman, 1890), 95.

483 “The roar of musketry”: Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 132.

483 The slaughter in Bloody Lane: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 392.

484 “without getting their waist belts”: Henry Kyd Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940), 172.

484 “Gentlemen, we will not cross”: Henry Alexander White, Robert E. Lee (New York: Greenwood, 1969), 224–25.

484 This was determination indeed: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 214.

485 “The passage of the Potomac”: Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War of Independence (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1866), Vol. I, 255.

CHAPTER 9 Glory—Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

488 “Yes, my son”: Robert E. Lee Jr., Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1924), 77–98.

489 Lee had advised his wife: Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 105.

489 Lee, like many another parent: Ibid., 106.

489 “At the usual hour”: Walter H. Taylor, Four Years with General Lee (New York: Appleton, 1878), 76.

490 “He was the father of a tenderly-loved daughter”: Ibid., 76–77.

490 He ended on a bleaker note: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 79–80.

490 “Perfect and true are all His ways”: Ibid., 80–81.

490 Lee finally gave his army two months: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 2, 415.

491 “Will you pardon me”: Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1988), 334.

492 In this he was perfectly right: Ibid., 340.

492 “[Burnside] is as sorry”: Ibid., 341.

493 He intended to “give up”: J. F. C. Fuller, Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship (New York: Scribner, 1933), 170.

493 Lincoln, who was by now: Ibid., 170.

496 When Lee arrived at Fredericksburg: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 433.

497 Anxious to prevent the slaughter: Ibid., 434.

498 Forced to wait patiently: Ibid., 442.

498 “These people delight to destroy”: Ibid., 446.

499 heavy fog concealed: Ibid., 452.

499 The morning of December 13: Walter Herron Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861–1865 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 146.

499 “No doubt every heart”: Ibid., 150–51.

500 Without smiling, Jackson mounted: Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer (New York: Neale, 1905), 128.

500 “as if the ready war god”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 456.

501 “The people [of Wilmington]”: War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XXI (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888), 1061.

501 On the left: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 458.

502 “It is well that war”: Ibid., 462.

502 “General, they are massing”: Jeffrey Wert, General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), 221.

502 “A series of braver”: James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), 265.

503 “About 9 a.m.”: War of the Rebellion: Formal Reports, Both Union and Confederate, The First Seizures of United States Property in the Southern States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1985), Vol. 53, 523.

503 “naked and discolored”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 470.

503 “Our commander-in-chief”: J. F. C. Fuller, Grant and Lee, 173.