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269 All that was missing: George Francis Robert Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (New York: Longmans, Green, 1900), Vol. 1, 154.

269 Mary Lee and her girls: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 91.

269 The next day, in the pouring rain: Ibid.

270 “The empty saddle”: Woodward, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 106–7.

270 He also broke the news: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 37.

270 The military situation: R. Lockwood Tower, ed., Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862–1865 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 7.

271 Lee’s own position: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 541.

272 He would write to Mary: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, August 4, 1861, Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 38–39.

272 Brigadier General Henry R. Jackson: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 543–44.

272 “jaded and galled”: Ibid., 544.

275 “Our troops, I know”: Ibid., 556, n5.

276 “had lived with gentle people”: Ibid., 552.

278 The attack was set: Ibid., 565.

279 “the right branch of the Elkwater Fork”: Ibid., 568.

279 Curiously enough: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 46–47.

280 On September 19 Lee rode: Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 31.

281 The Richmond Examiner dismissed: James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 302.

281 “I am sorry, as you say”: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 51.

284 His original name was: “General Robert E. Lee’s War Horses: Traveller and Lucy Long,” Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 18, January-December 1890, 388–91.

284 The Broun brothers: Ibid.

284 Lee had several horses: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 54.

285 Even Jefferson Davis: Ibid., 53.

285 “the best man available”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 607.

286 Lee quickly set about: Ibid., 615, 614.

286 “an unromantic routine”: Ibid., 614.

287 “Had some old English cathedral crypt”: Ibid., 612.

288 “achievement . . . unworthy of any”: Ibid., 618.

288 “As to our old home”: Lee, Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, 59.

289 Lee did not gloat: Robert E. Lee to Mary Lee, February 8, 1862, Ibid., 64.

289 “If circumstances will”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 1, 628.

CHAPTER 7 The Seven Days—“The Power of the Sword”

291 “The power of the sword”: Job 5:20.

291 There was a movement: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 1, 2, 6.

291 “the conduct of military operations”: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. V (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881), 1099; National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), April 14, 1861.

293 The ostensible reason: Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 1, 2, 3.

293 Of course what nobody: Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1988), 108–9.

293 “cautious and weak”: Ibid., 180; George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, April 20, 1862, Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

293 “There was no hesitation”: A. L. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee (New York: J. M. Stoddard, 1886), 435.

294 “In audacity”: J. F. C. Fuller, Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933), 267.

294 Lee himself found some consolation: Mary P. Coulling, The Lee Girls (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1987), 98.

294 Even though White House was: Ibid., 101.

294 In two of the blank pages: Ibid., 99–101.

301 Although Confederate knowledge: Colonel Vincent J. Esposito, The West Point Atlas of the American Wars, 1689–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1959), Vol. 1, text accompanying map 39.

303 He understood at once: Peter Cozzens, Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), 23–25.

303 If one thinks of the Valley Pike: Ibid., 22.

304 “with the serenest faith”: C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 361.

305 “a constant supervision”: Walter H. Taylor, Four Years with General Lee (New York: Appleton, 1878), 38.

305 By April 9: Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon, 172.

305 This was an unparalleled: Ibid., 168.

306 “No one but McClellan”: Ibid., 180.

306 He arrived there on April 13: Douglas Southall Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (New York: Scribner, 1934), Vol. 2, 21.

307 “War of posts”: Letter to John Hancock, September 8, 1776, Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, Dorothy Twohig, ed. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994), Vol. 6, 249.

308 “exhibited . . . a patient persistence”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 17.

308 He advised Magruder: Ibid., 19.

309 On April 21: James Robertson, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (New York: Macmillan, 1997), 364.

310 “I cannot pretend”: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XII, Part 3, 866.

312 It was an extraordinary achievement: Shenandoah, 1862 (New York: Time-Life Books, 1997), 9.

313 He had warned Mary: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 101.

314 “the Confederate army had disappeared”: Le Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1886), Vol. 2, 12.

314 He had preserved his army: Freeman, Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Vol. 2, 46.

315 a complaint obviously directed: Ibid., 45.

315 Lee tactfully deflected: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Vol. XI, Part III (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884), 500.

316 “Northern soldiers who profess”: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 102.

316 Lee managed to send two aides: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 251–55.

317 “against General McClellan’s orders”: Coulling, The Lee Girls, 104–7.

319 Lee apparently answered: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 2, 48.

320 “tears ran down his