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504 “It was not a battle”: Patrick Hook and Steve Smith, The Stonewall Brigade (Minneapolis, Minn.: Zenith, 2008), 65.

504 “If there is a worse place”: Wikipedia, “Battle of Fredericksburg,” 14.

504 His headquarters: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 85.

505 “one fourth pound of bacon”: War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XXV, Part II (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889), 730, quoted in Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 494.

505 “his pleadings”: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 124.

505 “My thoughts revert”: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 87.

506 “My heart bleeds”: Ibid., 89.

506 “As regards the liberation of the people”: Ibid., 90.

506 “[The snow] was nearly”: Ibid., 93.

507 “the doctors tapping me”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 503.

509 “My plans are perfect”: Edwin C. Bearss, Fields of Honor (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006), 124.

509 there was no way to openly deploy: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 185.

510 He then added to his difficulties: Ibid., 186.

510 “The enemy in our front”: The Rebellion Record, Frank Moore, ed. (New York: Van Nostrand, 1867), Vol. 10, 254.

511 “The retrograde movement”: Curt Anders, Henry Halleck’s War: A Fresh Look at Lincoln’s Controversial General-in-Chief (copyright Curt Anders, 1999), 422.

512 Just then Lee’s nephew Fitzhugh: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 520.

513 “to hold Hooker’s 72,000”: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 187.

513 Stuart, as good as his word: Sears, George B. McClellan, 129.

514 They located a recent logging trail: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 522–23.

514 One of his staff: James Robertson, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (New York: Macmillan, 1997), 712.

514 Jackson had unbuckled his sword: Ibid., 913.

514 “I have but to show him my design”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 524.

516 Jackson, to his relief: Robertson, Stonewall Jackson, 719.

516 “exploded out of the woods”: Wikipedia, “Battle of Chancellorsville,” 13.

516 “Position after position”: War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XXV, Part I (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889), 798.

516 “that we should all strip”: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 173.

517 “a calamity of the first order”: Ibid., 189.

517 Lee himself spent May 2: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 531.

517 “moaned audibly”: Ibid., 533.

518 “with utmost vigor”: War of the Rebellion, Series I, Vol. XXV, Part I, 769.

518 “I know all about it”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 535.

519 “Lee’s presence”: Henry Alexander White, Robert E. Lee (New York: Greenwood, 1969), 273.

519 Dazed and humiliated: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 191.

520 “My God!”: Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 498.

CHAPTER 10 Gettysburg—“If We Do Not Whip Him, He Will Whip Us”

525 Longstreet was sufficiently opposed: James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), 277.

526 In his patient, stubborn way: Ibid., 280.

526 Lee made it clear: Ibid.

526 Longstreet managed to extract: Ibid., 280–81.

526 “secretly swollen with the idea”: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1935), Vol. 3, 15.

527 “Although reserved in speech”: Jeffrey Wert, General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), 21.

527 Longstreet’s first act: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 282.

527 “It was now a far stronger army”: Colonel Vincent J. Esposito, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, 1689–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1959), text accompanying map 92.

528 He was cautious in revealing: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 285.

528 He had hoped to take advantage: Ibid.

529 Colonel Walter Taylor: Walter Herron Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861–1865 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 180.

529 His military secretary: Charles Marshall, An Aide-de-Camp of Lee (Boston: Little Brown, 1927), 182.

529 “might offer a fair opportunity”: Jeffrey D. Wert, A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862–1863 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011), 213.

530 The fact that Lee was “thinning”: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 286.

531 Lee ordered A.P. Hill: Ibid.

532 If Hooker moved his army: Esposito, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, text accompanying map 93.

532 It may well have appeared: Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 182.

535 Stuart’s cavalry covered the gaps: Esposito, The West Point Atlas of American Wars, text accompanying map 93.

535 By now Hooker: J. F. C. Fuller, Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship (New York: Scribner, 1933), 195.

537 “All fences have been destroyed”: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 2, 178.