NOTES
THE HERO OF THE
SANDY VALLEY
1 John G. Nicolay and John Hay, eds., Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln
(Cumberland Gap,
Tenn., 1894), VI, 360.
2 For a discussion of Kentucky's
"neutrality," see E. Merton Coulter, The Civil War and
Readjustment in Kentucky (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1926).
3 See the sketch of Buell in Whitelaw
Reid's Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Generals and
Soldiers (Columbus, 1893), I, 695-724.
4 The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Con-
federate Armies (Washington, 1880-1901), Series I, Vol. IV, 225-230.
Cited hereafter as Official
Records. As all references are to Series I, the series number is
omitted from subsequent citations.
5 Otto F. Bond, ed., Under the Flag
of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer
in the Civil War (Columbus, 1961), 12-13; F. H. Mason, The
Forty-Second Ohio Infantry
(Cleveland, 1876), 46-47.
6 Garfield to J. H. Rhodes, December 17,
1861. J. H. Rhodes was a close friend and colleague
of Garfield's at Hiram. This letter is
part of a collection of Garfield material, mainly of a per-
sonal nature, which has been loaned by
the Garfield family to Professors Harry Brown and
Frederick DeForest Williams of Michigan
State University, who kindly allowed me to examine it.
All Garfield letters cited are in this
collection unless otherwise noted.
7 Garfield to his wife, December 16,
1861.
8 James A. Garfield, "My Campaign
in East Kentucky," North American Review, CXLIII
(1866), 527. This account must be used
with care, since it is apparently a hastily dictated memoir
prepared for purposes of campaign
publicity. The dates are incorrect, as are many of the
details.
9 Garfield to his wife, December 16,
1861.
10 Garfield, "My Campaign in East
Kentucky," 527-528.
11 Official Records, VII,
503-504; Garfield to his wife, December 16, 1861.
12 Official Records, VII, 22-23.
13 For example, see Official Records,
VII, 25, 26, 27.
14 Garfield to his wife, December 20,
1861.
15 Garfield to J. H. Rhodes, December
17, 1861.
16 Garfield to his wife, December 20,
1861; Garfield, "My Campaign in East Kentucky," 528.
17 Garfield, "My Campaign in East
Kentucky," 528.
18 Bond, Under the Flag of the
Nation, 13-14.
19 Mason, The Forty-Second Ohio, 53-55.
20 Bond, Under the Flag of the
Nation, 14-15; Mason, The Forty-Second Ohio, 54-55, 57. The
two accounts differ on details of this
incident.
21 Mason, The Forty-Second Ohio, 55;
Garfield, "My Campaign in East Kentucky," 529.
22 Garfield to his mother, January 26,
1861.
23 Humphrey Marshall to Alexander
Stephens, December 13, 1861. All Marshall letters cited
here are at the Filson Club, Louisville,
Kentucky. I am indebted to Mr. Jon Kaliebe, who
kindly allowed me to examine an
unpublished paper entitled "The Big Sandy Campaign," from
which this and the subsequent references
to Marshall letters have been taken.
24 Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence
Clough Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War (New York, 1887-88), I, 397.
25 See Official Records, IV, 495.
26 Ibid., VII, 43.
27 Kaliebe, "The Big Sandy
Campaign."
28 Johnson and Buel, Battles and
Leaders, I, 394.
29 Clement Eaton, A History of the
Southern Confederacy (New York, 1961), 95.
30 Official Records, VII, 43, 45.
31 Johnson and Buel, Battles and Leaders, I, 395-397.
32 Humphrey Marshall to Alexander
Stephens, December 23, 1861.
33 Official Records, VII, 43.
34 In his attempts to raise troops,
Marshall was usually disappointed. As he later disgustedly
observed, "It was wonderful to see
how ignorant, how apathetic, how utterly unconscious of the
despotism which guarded their moral
nature those people were. . . . Sometimes they would