BOOKS BY BRUCE CATTON This Hallowed Ground Banners at Shenandoah (juvenile) U S Grant and the Military Tradition A Stillness at Appomattox Glory Road Mr Lincoln’s Army The War Lords of Washington CASTLE BOOKS A division of Book Sales, Inc 114 Northfield Avenue Edison, New Jersey 08837 Published by arrangement with and permission of DOUBLEDAY, a division of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 Copyright © 1955, 1956, by Bruce Catton All rights reserved This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers eISBN: 978-0-307-94748-2 v3.1 To Nellie Catton Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication CHAPTER ONE: The Hurricane Comes Later Sowing the Wind Where They Were Bound to Go Light over the Marshes Not to Be Ended Quickly CHAPTER TWO: Men Who Could Be Led In Time of Revolution The Important First Trick The Rising Shadows CHAPTER THREE: Men Who Shaped the War The Romantics to the Rescue Trail of the Pathfinder He Must Be Willing to Fight CHAPTER FOUR: To March to Terrible Music Sambo Was Not Sambo War along the Border Come On, You Volunteers! To the Deep South CHAPTER FIVE: A Long War Ahead Hardtack in an Empty Hand Springtime of Promise Invitation to General Lee Delusion and Defeat CHAPTER SIX: Turning Point Kill, Confiscate or Destroy Cheers in the Starlight High-Water Mark CHAPTER SEVEN: I See No End The Best There Was in the Ranch There Was No Patience Thin Moon and Cold Mist Down the River CHAPTER EIGHT: Swing of the Pendulum The Hour of Darkness Stalemate in the Swamps The Face of the Enemy End of a Campaign CHAPTER NINE: The Trees and the River Final Miscalculation Moment of Truth Unvexed to the Sea CHAPTER TEN: Last of the Might-Have-Beens Pursuit in Tennessee Ghoul-Haunted Woodland The Pride of Soldiers A Half Dozen Roasted Acorns CHAPTER ELEVEN: And Keep Moving On Year of Jubilo Vote of Confidence The Great Decision A Question of Time CHAPTER TWELVE: We Will Not Cease That Bright Particular Star Wind across the Sky The Grapes of Wrath The Enemy Will Be Attacked CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Twilight and Victory Reap the Whirlwind The Fire and the Night Telegram in Cipher Candlelight NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF MAPS First and Second Bull Run Shiloh Vicksburg Gettysburg Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge Chapter One THE HURRICANE COMES LATER Sowing the Wind T senator was tall and handsome, with wavy hair to frame a proud ravaged face, and if hearty feeding had given him the beginning of a notable paunch he was erect enough to carry it well He had the easy grace of a practiced orator — his speeches, according to spiteful enemies, were carefully rehearsed night after night before a mirror in his chambers, while an awed colored boy stood by with a lighted candle — and there was a great humorless arrogance about him, for he had never been blessed with a moment of self-doubt He liked to say that he was in morals, not in politics From this the logical deduction was that people who opposed him, numerous though they undoubtedly were, must be willfully wrong Such a deduction Senator Charles Sumner was quite capable of drawing for himself He would draw it today in the Senate chamber In his speech, he had told a friend, he would “pronounce the most thorough philippic ever uttered in a legislative chamber.” It was an ominous promise The date was May 19, 1856, and although there was still a little time left it was running out fast, and angry words might make it run faster Yet angry words were about the only kind anyone cared to use these days Men seemed tired of the reasoning process Instead of trying to convert one’s opponents it was simpler just to denounce them, no matter what unmeasured denunciation might lead to The point at issue was, at bottom, simple enough: how to legislate so that Kansas might someday become a state But Kansas was a symbol rather than a territory Men saw what they feared and hated, concentrated on its wide empty plains, and as they stared they were losing the ability to see virtue in compromise and conciliation The man on the other side, whatever one’s vantage point, was beginning to look ominously alien He could not easily be dealt with, and perhaps it was best simply to lash out at him In the charged atmosphere thus created the lightest act could be fateful All of the things that were slipping beyond hope of easy solution — sectional enmities, economic antagonisms, varying interpretations of the American dream, the tragic unendurable race problem itself — all of these, somehow, might hinge on what was done about Kansas, so that the wrong phrase in an enacting clause could mean earth’s best hope lost forever In Senator Sumner’s view the wrong phrase was on the verge of adoption The bill which the Senate was about to pass would, as he saw it, mean that Kansas must eventually become a slave state In addition, it would give a great deal of aid and comfort to slavery’s advocates, wherever they were It was not to be thought of calmly; it was not merely wrong, it was an actual crime Furthermore, it was no common crime; it was (he solemnly assured the Senate) a fearful thing, “the crime against nature, from HE which the soul recoils, and which language refuses to describe.” Yet if language could not describe it the senator could, and he would so He was a man of breeding and education, given to much study of the classics; and he stood now in the Senate chamber, looking imperiously about him as one who has glimpsed the tables of the law on the mountaintop, and he dwelt extensively on “the rape of a virgin territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery.” The South, he said, was guilty of a “depraved longing for a new slave state, the hideous o spring of such a crime.” Force had been used, he declared, “in compelling Kansas to this pollution.”1 The desk in front of Senator Sumner was empty It belonged to Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina, and when Sumner rst became a senator, white-haired Butler had been pleasant and cordial — so much so that Sumner wrote to a friend that he had learned, from the old gentleman’s kindness, “to shun harsh and personal criticism of those from whom I di er.” But that had been years ago, when men from Massachusetts and South Carolina could still exchange courtesies in the Senate chamber; and in any case Sumner was always ready to denounce even a close friend, and in the most unmeasured terms, if he suspected that the friend had fallen into error Butler was a spokesman for slavery, he had had his part in the crime against nature, and the fascinating exercise of discussing political opposition in terms of sexual depravity could be carried on — by this bookish man, still unmarried at forty- ve — with Butler as the target Sumner addressed himself to the absent Butler The South Carolina senator considered himself a chivalrous knight, but Sumner had seen the truth: “He has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight — I mean the harlot slavery For her his tongue is always profuse with words Let her be impeached in character, or any proposition made to shut her out from the extension of her wantonness, and no extravagance of manner or hardihood of assertion is then too great for this senator.” There was quite a bit more of this, ranging all the way from Senator Butler to the ancient Egyptians, “who worshipped divinities in brutish forms,” with due mention of the “obscene idols” to which the Aztecs had made human sacri ces; the connection of these latter with the harlot slavery not being of the clearest At one stage Sumner interrupted himself to cry: “Mr President, I mean to keep absolutely within the limits of parliamentary propriety;” and then he went on, his speech still un nished at the session’s end The senator managed to reach his conclusion the following day, reminding the presiding o cer (perhaps unnecessarily) that “an immense space has been traversed,” and in closing he came back from brutish idols and obscene Aztecs to Senator Butler, from whom he had learned not to let political arguments get personal There was not, he said, “any possible deviation from the truth” of which Butler was innocent, although fortunately these deviations were made in the heat of such passion “as to save him from the suspicion of intentional aberration.” Still, there it was: “The senator touches nothing which he does not disfigure — with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact.”2 A Stillness at Appomattox, pp 219-51 The Living Lincoln, p 616 Chapter Twelve: WE WILL NOT CEASE That Bright Particular Star Official Records, Vol XIX, Part 2, p 505 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp 99, 133; Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, pp 281-82 Lewis, op cit., pp 357-58 “Letters of C C Carpenter,” edited by Mildred Throne; from the Iowa Journal of History, January 1955, p 84 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp 78, 95 Lewis, op cit., pp 375-78 Schofield, op cit., pp 131, 231-32 The Life of Major General George H Thomas, pp 243-45 Lewis, op cit., p 386 10 Manuscript letter of General Sherman to Emily Hoffman of Baltimore Family tradition regarding Miss Hoffman’s receipt of the news of McPherson’s death, and her reaction to it, related by her grand-nephew, Mr Walter Lord of New York 11 Lewis, op cit., p 400 Wind Across the Sky For slavery as a race problem, see Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager, America: The Story of a Free People, pp 214- 15 Abraham Lincoln, by Benjamin P Thomas, pp 441-42 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol III, p 227 Ibid., p 218; Thomas, op cit., p 445 B & L., Vol IV, pp 379-400 The Grapes of Wrath Lewis, op cit., pp 426, 430 Ibid., p 431 B & L., Vol IV, p 672; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp 252-53; Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 147 History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 252 Manuscript letter, Sherman to Emily Hoffman; Official Records, Vol XXX, Part 3, p 698 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp 148, 149; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 278; History of the 34th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 106 History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 263; Footprints through Dixie, p 124 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 153 Cox, op cit., Vol II, p 234; The History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 279; History of the 34th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 173 10 History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 258 11 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 164; Lewis, op cit., p 465; Cox, op cit., Vol II, p 234 12 Downing’s War Diary, p 237; A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, pp 379-80, 384; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 279 13 Lewis, op cit., p 471 The Enemy Will be Attacked The most exhaustive discussion of Hood’s odd failure at Spring Hill, probably, is that of Stanley Horn in his excellent Army of Tennessee, pp 384-95 Footprints through Dixie, pp 136-37 With the Rank and File, pp 18-19 The Army of Tennessee, pp 399-404; Scho eld, op cit., pp 177-79; Opdycke Tigers, pp 339-53; With the Rank and File, pp 16-17 Note that the youthful Colonel MacArthur of the 24th Wisconsin, who was wounded in this ght, later became the father of General Douglas MacArthur Footprints through Dixie, pp 142-43 Manuscript diary of Henry Mortimer Hempstead The whole sequence of events is set forth in complete detail in Gen James H Wilson’s Under the Old Flag, Vol II, pp 64- 93; see also B & L., Vol IV, pp 455-56 Manuscript diary of Henry Mortimer Hempstead History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p 259; History of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, p 284 10 Under the Old Flag, Vol II, pp 122-23, 126 11 Ibid., p 95 Chapter Thirteen: TWILIGHT AND VICTORY Reap the Whirlwind History of the 34th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp 179, 191 Lewis, op cit., p 490 History of the 83rd Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p 71; History of the 34th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 354 History of the 83rd Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p 77; History of the 53rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, p 176; Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 176; History of Fuller’s Ohio Brigade, p 265; History of the 104th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, pp 309-10 Echoes of the Civil War as I Hear Them, pp 268-69 History of the 104th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 287 Downing’s War Diary, pp 251, 259 History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 297; Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 183; Story of the Service of Company E and of the 12th Wisconsin Regiment, p 407; History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, pp 411-14 Lewis, op cit., pp 506-7 10 B & L., Vol IV, p 686 11 Downing’s War Diary, p 260; History of the 104th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 309; Lewis, op cit., p 509 The Fire and the Night Manuscript diary of Capt Lot Abraham, 4th Iowa Cavalry Manuscript letters of Lewis Bissell, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery Manuscript letters of David Carpenter, Massachusetts agent for the Christian Commission; Cox, op cit., Vol II, p 397 Official Records, Series 4, Vol III, p 1131 Ibid., pp 1067-70 Ibid., pp 1161-62 A Telegram in Cipher Personal Memoirs of U S Grant, Vol II, p 489 Grant’s own account of the surrender proceedings and the version given by Col Horace Porter in B & L., Vol IV, pp 729-46, have been followed here B & L., Vol IV, p 744 Lewis, op cit., pp 534-35 Reminiscences of the Civil War, from Diaries of Members of the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p 208 A similar note was sounded by an Ohio soldier, who said that “the country will just be riddled and burnt over,” adding wistfully: “I only wish that it was in some other state as there are a great many Union folks in N C., but they will not escape.” (Manuscript letters of Frank O Weary, 29th Ohio Infantry.) The terms are summarized from Lewis, op cit., pp 540-41 B & L., Vol IV, p 757 Candlelight The Living Lincoln, pp 600, 638-40 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol IV, pp 319-21 The Story of a Cavalry Regiment, pp 509, 522 History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry, pp 331-32 A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, p 463 History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry, p 303; Manuscript diary of Capt Lot Abraham Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, narrated by the Rank and File, pp 382-83; New York Herald, May 24, 1865 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book could hardly have been written without the help which was provided by a large number of very generous people Manuscript sources dealing with the lives and thoughts of Civil War soldiers are widely scattered; to get at them a writer is bound to rely on the kindness of those who own them He thereby incurs a debt which can hardly be repaid but which can at least be gratefully acknowledged In preparing this book, the following manuscript sources were used: Letters of George L Lang, of the 12th Wisconsin; loaned by Stanley Barnett, of Cleveland Letters of Abram S Funk, of the 35th Iowa; loaned by Mrs Erie M Funk, of Long Beach, Calif Letters of Isaac Jackson, of the 83rd Ohio; loaned by J O Jackson, of Detroit Letters of Frank Weary, drummer boy in the 29th Ohio Veteran Volunteers; loaned by G H Lohr, of Cuyahoga Falls, O Memoirs of Elmer J Barker, of the 5th New York Cavalry; loaned by Dr E Eugene Barker, of Albany, N Y Diary of Sgt John P Beech, of the 4th New Jersey; loaned by Albert C Lambert, of Trenton, N J Letters of James Gillette, of the 71st New York State Militia, later of the 4th Maryland Volunteers; loaned by Mrs Amy G Bassett, of Huletts Landing, N Y Diary of Henry Mortimer Hempstead, of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry; loaned by Miss Helen Hempstead, of Saginaw, Mich Diary of Bowman Garrison, of the 7th Pennsylvania Reserves; loaned by Mrs Charles Haskell Danforth, of Stanford University, Calif Diary of Corp Loring N Hayden, of the 24th Massachusetts; loaned by Mrs Genevieve Hayden Berry, of Wollaston, Mass Letters of General William T Sherman to Emily Ho man of Baltimore; loaned by Walter Lord, of New York Diary of Capt Lot Abraham, of the 4th Iowa Cavalry; loaned by John D Adams, of Newark, N J Letters of David Carpenter, Massachusetts agent for the Christian Commission; loaned by Mrs Olive L Sawyer, of New York Letters of John W Chase, of the 1st Massachusetts Artillery; loaned by Mrs Margaret J Collier, of Arlington, Va Letters of Lewis Bissell, of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery; loaned by Carl H Bissell, of Syracuse, N Y Correspondence of Senator Charles Sumner during the summer of 1864; loaned by Mrs Mary Reeve, of Clearfield, Pa Letter of General Francis Barlow; loaned by his daughter, Mrs Pierre Jay, of New York Letters of General U S Grant to Mrs Grant; photostatic copies provided by Ralph Newman, of Chicago Other people to whom thanks for assistance are due include the following: E B Long and Earl Schenck Miers read the book in manuscript and made many helpful suggestions (It should go without saying, of course, that neither of these gentlemen is responsible for any opinions expressed in this book or for any factual errors which may be found in the text.) Cli ord Dowdey generously sacri ced a weekend to guide me about the fascinating but confusing battle elds of the Seven Days’ ghting and shared with me his encyclopedic knowledge of that campaign L Van Loan Naisawald of New York made available the ndings of his extensive study of Civil War artillery Frank Warner, of Mineola, N.Y., kindly checked the facts in connection with the writing and first singing of the song “Year of Jubilo.” Donald H Richards, of Durham, N.H., gave me a copy of his excellent manuscript study of the 5th New Hampshire Volunteers Lewis Gannett, editor of the Mainstream of America Series, and Walter I Bradbury, managing editor of Doubleday & Company, performed their editorial functions in a way that made my task much more pleasant and easy To the historians and other sta members of the National Park Service at many Civil War battle eld parks I am very deeply indebted Without exception, these men have had both the will and the knowledge to be of most substantial 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House, Inc., 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 Copyright © 1955, 1956, by Bruce Catton All rights reserved This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted... their destiny in this great western land tied by natural law to the destiny of the whole country In this year 1856 there was a typical family opening a new farm in Iowa, and this family’s story