FOOTNOTES:
[1] Ohio State Journal.
[2] General McClellan's Report, p. 4.
[3] Testimony before Committee of Congress.
[4] Norfolk Day-Book.
[5] Peninsular Campaign. Rev. Dr. Marks.
[6] General McClellan's Report, p. 66.
[7] General Heintzelman's testimony.
[8] Maine Adjutant-General's Report, 1862, p. 142. Captain B. M. Smith.
[9] Campaign from Texas to Maryland, by Rev. Nicholas A. Davis, Chaplain Fourth Texas. Richmond, 1863.
[10] Stephens's speech.
[11] Notes on Virginia.
[12] McClellan's Report, p. 79.
[14] President Lincoln's letter,—Testimony, p. 321.
[15] Adjutant-General's Report,—Testimony, p. 315.
[16] McClellan's Report, p. 79.
[17] Confederate Reports, Official, p. 516.
[18] Battle-Fields of the South, by an English Officer in the Confederate Army. London.
[19] Southern History of the War, Vol. II. p. 31.
[20] Southern History, Vol. II. p. 31.
[21] Estvan's War Pictures from the South, p. 271.
[22] Battle-Fields of the South.
[23] The diagram represents the position of the troops at the beginning of the battle.
[24] Battle-Fields of the South, Vol. II. p. 4
[25] Keyes's Report.
[26] Adjutant-General's Report, Maine, 1862.
[27] Adjutant-General's Report.
[28] Battle-Fields of the South.
[29] Chaplain Marks.
[30] Testimony, p. 352.
[31] Testimony, p. 609.
[32] Army of the Potomac, p. 79.
[33] Chaplain Marks.
[34] Campaign from Texas to Maryland.
[35] McClellan's Despatch. Testimony, p. 338.
[36] Pollard's Southern History, p. 329.
[37] Confederate Narrative, Rebellion Record, Vol. V. p. 250.
[38] Battle-Fields of the South.
[39] Campaign from Texas to Maryland, p. 46.
[40] Richmond Whig, June 29,
1862.
[41] Peninsular Campaign.
[42] Battle-Fields of the South, p. 170.
[43] Cologne Gazette account.
[44] Hooker's Report.
[45] Pollard, Southern Hist.
[46] Campaign from Texas to Maryland.
[47] Battle-Fields of the South.
[48] Report, p. 140.
[49] Peninsular Campaign, p. 294.
[50] See "My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field."
[51] Pope's Report.
[52] Pope's Report.
[53] Sigel's Report.
[54] Southern History, Second Year, p. 113.
[55] General McClellan's Report, p.
213.
[56] McClellan's Report.
[57] Life of Stonewall Jackson, p. 197.
[58] The Church and the Rebellion, p. 196.
[59] Pollard, Vol. II. p. 137.
[60] Upon the map accompanying General McClellan's Report there are several residences marked Poffenberger; also several marked D. Miller. But the residence here described was the one around which the severest fighting occurred on the right,—Joseph Poffenberger's.
[61] Pollard, Vol. II. p. 125.
[62] Jackson's Report, Southern History, Vol. II. p. 132.
[63] Southern Hist., Vol. II. p. 132.
[64] Jackson's Report, Southern History, Vol. II. p. 133.
[65] Campaign from Texas to Maryland, p. 89.
[66] Ibid, p. 90.
[67] Major Hyde's Report.
[68] Maine Adjutant General's Report, 1862.
[69] McClellan's Report, p. 208.
[70] Charleston Courier's account of the battle.
[71] Burnside's Testimony.
[72] McClellan's Report, p. 207.
[73] McClellan's Report, p. 201.
[74] Statement of a Rebel officer after the battle,—a prisoner.
[75] Campaign from Texas to Maryland, and Charleston Courier.
[76] See McClellan's statement of the number of troops present, p. 214, Report.
Lieutenant-Colonel Kimball's Report.
[78] Report, p. 212.
[79] Burnside's Testimony, p. 642.
[80] Vol. II., p.
142.
[81] President's Letter.
[82] Adjutant-General's Report.
[83] Report Christian Commission.
[84] Speech at Ellicott's Mills, 1864.
[85] In General McClellan's report of the battle of Fair Oaks, he calls this brigade "Abercrombie's,"—evidently a mistake.
[86] Kearny was appointed division commander of the Third Corps (Heintzelman's) at the commencement of the Peninsular campaign.