194
OHIO HISTORY
40 Ibid., 243.
41 Ibid., 205-206.
42 Ibid., 264-266.
43 Ibid., 266. Confederate losses were approximately 250 killed
and 1,000 prisoners. Union
losses were about 20 killed and 60
wounded. Sickened by the carnage he saw at Rich Mountain,
Orlando Poe, a young lieutenant on
McClellan's staff, lost his illusions about war in a day. To his
wife he confided: "It is a dreadful
thing to see the killed and wounded. . . . Men were torn and
mangled in all sorts of ways. . . . I
don't want to witness the effect of another battle." Orlando
Poe to his wife, July 12,
1861. Orlando Poe Manuscripts, Library of Congress.
44 McClellan to Townsend, July 12, 1861.
McClellan Manuscripts.
45 Ibid.
46 Charles Whittlesey, War Memoranda:
Cheat River to the Tennessee, 1861-1862 (Cleveland,
1884), 8.
47 See especially H. W. Benham to T. A.
Morris, July 13, 1861, McClellan Manuscripts; Official
Records, II, 222-231.
48 Jacob D. Cox to McClellan, July 11,
1861. McClellan Manuscripts.
49 Official Records, II, 288-292.
50 Ibid., V, 151.
51 Ibid., II, 288.
52 Jacob D. Cox, Military
Reminiscences of the Civil War (New York, 1900), I, 72, 78.
53 An analysis of Lee's northwestern
Virginia campaign is found in Douglas Southall Freeman,
R. E. Lee: A Biography (New York, 1934-35), I, 545-578. See also Official
Records, V, 184-193;
John S. Carlile to Lincoln, telegram,
August 15, 1861, Lincoln Manuscripts; Carlile to Salmon P.
Chase, telegram, August 16, 1861, Salmon
P. Chase Manuscripts, Library of Congress.
54 Official Records, V, 864.
55 Ibid., 148-149.
56 Ibid., 118-119; Clement A. Evans, ed., Confederate Military
History (Atlanta, 1899), II, 36.
57 Official Records, V, 128-165,
252-259, 838-845; Evans, Confederate Military History, II, 37-39.
See also the "confidential"
letter of H. W. Benham to Montgomery Blair, September 24, 1861.
Lincoln Manuscripts.
58 Official Records, XIX, 1057-1090.
59 Cox, Military Reminiscences, I, 391-392;
Official Records, XIX, Pt. 2, p. 402.
60 There are exceptions, to be sure.
See, for example, Festus P. Summers, The Baltimore and
Ohio in the Civil War (New York, 1939); Edward Conrad Smith, The
Borderland in the Civil
War (New York, 1927); Frank Klement, "General John B.
Floyd and the Western Virginia Cam-
paigns of 1861," West Virginia
History, VIII (1947), 319-333; and Allan Nevins, The War for the
Union: I, The Improvised War,
1861-1862 (New York, 1959).
61 See Nevins, War for the Union, I,
139-140.
RELIEF FOR
SOLDIERS' FAMILIES DURING THE CIVIL WAR
1 Laws of Ohio, LVIII,
113.
2 Ibid., LIX, 22.
3 Ibid., 6.
4 Ibid., LXI, 133.
5 Address by William Dennison, Governor,
to the Soldiers of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, May 17,
1861, Ohio Executive Documents, 1861,
Pt. 1, pp. 376-377.
6 Report of the Provost Marshal General,
James B. Fry, larch 17, 1866, The War of the
Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Wash-
ington, 1880-1901), Series III, Vol. V,
671-672. Cited hereafter as Official Records.
7 Emerson D. Fite, Social and
Industrial Conditions in the North During the Civil War (New
York, 1910), 288-289.
8 Fred A. Shannon, The Organization
and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Cleve-
land, 1928), II, 53, 55-56; Report of
the Provost Marshal General, March 17, 1866, pp. 672-673.
9 Report of the Provost Marshal General,
March 17, 1866, pp. 673-675.
10 Report of the Adjutant General of
Ohio, Ohio Executive Documents, 1866, Pt. 1, pp. 28-29.
11 Cincinnati Daily Gazette, June
4, 1863; Cincinnati Daily Times, June 3, 1863.
12 Report of the City Auditor, Annual
Reports of the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati,
1866, p. 173.
13 Report of the Adjutant General of
Ohio, Ohio Executive Documents, 1866, Pt. 1, p. 29. The