Slavery and four years of war

by Joseph Warren Keifer

(16) War Records, vol. vii., p. 155.

(17) Ibid., vol. viii., p. 555.

(18) Grant estimates his own force on the surrender of the fort at 27,000, but not all available for attack, and the number of Confederates on the day preceding at 21,000—Memoirs of Grant, vol. i., p. 314.

(19) War Records, vol. viii., pp. 160, 167.

(20) War Records, vol. vii., pp. 269, 283, 288.

(21) Ibid., pp. 274, 254.

(22) War Records, vol. vii., pp. 167, 270.

(23) Ibid., pp. 269, 283, 288.

(24) General Beatty accuses me, justly, of depriving him, at Bell's Tavern when very hungry, of a supper, by too freely commenting, when we were seated at the mess-table, on the soupy character and the color of the mule hairs in the coffee.—Citizen Soldier, p. 106.

(25) War Records, vol. vii., pp. 426, 433.