Slavery and four years of war

by Joseph Warren Keifer

(20) Memoirs of Sheridan, vol. ii., pp. 191, 199.

(21) Manassas to Appomattox, pp. 618, 620; Memoirs of Lee (Long), p. 416.

(22) Letter of General Gordon to the writer, of October 1, 1894.

(23) Longstreet relates that information came to him from Gordon that a break had been found through which the Confederate Army "could force passage," and that he dispatched a Colonel Haskell "on a blooded mare" after Lee, who had gone to the rear expecting to meet Grant, as requested by Lee by note previously sent, Longstreet telling the Colonel "to kill his mare, but bring Lee back."— Manassas to Appomattox, pp. 623, 626.

(24) Memoirs of Lee (Long), p. 421.

(25) Memoirs of Sheridan, vol. ii., pp. 194-8.

(26) Memoirs of Sheridan, vol. ii., p. 154.

(27) Battles and Leaders, etc., vol. iv., p. 740; Memoirs of Grant, vol. ii., p. 483.

(28) Memoirs of Grant., vol. ii., p. 488.

(29) War Records, vol. xlvi., Part I., p. 1279.