Martin Schenck - Up Came Hill: The Story of the Light Division and Its Leaders

TO COMPILE a complete bibliography of everything that one may have read on a subject at some time during his life, and which may have exerted a subconscious influence upon a writers current work, is probably impossible. This is especially true of a subject bearing upon the Civil War. I have, therefore, limited the bibliography here to two relatively small lists, including chiefly material that was constantly at hand and frequently referred to in the writing of this book. One list covers authors and titles. The other recites miscellaneous sources and compilations that are not identified with authors. In the second group are to be found the two primary sources upon which I have relied most heavily in my annotations. They are, of course, the Official Records and the Southern Historical Society Papers.

In addition to the volumes and other material appearing on the following lists, however, there were numerous reference sources made available to me through the kindness of many individuals and institutions. I shall attempt to list these kind people and organizations alphabetically at this point and, in so doing, express my deepest appreciation to each:

Dr. Francis L. Berkely for courtesies extended at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia.

Confederate Museum, Richmond, Va. for making available all material on A. P. Hill in its possession.

Confederate Memorial Institute, Richmond, for permission to examine many documents, including such matters as Jacksons court-martial specifications against Hill.

Mr. Sidney Forman, archivist at the United States Military Academy, for producing all material at West Point bearing upon Cadet A. P. Hill.

Miss Mildred T. Hill of Culpeper, Va., and her cousin, Miss Mildred T. Bispham, grand-nieces of A. P. Hill, who gave me much personal information on my subject and directed me to numerous leads resulting in the uncovering of much additional material. Without the aid of Miss Hill and Miss Bispham, the data on A. P. Hills youth and family background would have been most incomplete.

Mrs. Emlyn H. Marsteller of Manassas, Va., who not only made the invaluable Harry Heth manuscript available, but demonstrated never-to-be-forgotten Southern hospitality to Mrs. Schenck and myself.

New York State Library, Education Building, Albany, N. Y. for many courtesies including loan of S.H.S.P. volumes and use of microfilm projectors.

The late Mr. J. L. Rutledge of Toronto, a student and analyst of the A. P. Hill story, who answered many questions that otherwise I would have had great difficulty in solving.

Colonel Willard Webb of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., another student of A. P. Hill, who courteously answered several inquiries and volunteered other information.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Hapgood, Lynchburg, Va., for affording me a base of operations in the war country.

Leo W. OBrien, newspaperman and broadcaster, as well as Member of Congress, representing the 30th District of New York, for invaluable editorial help.

One additional field of acknowledgment should not be overlooked. In the manner of A. P. Hill I found personal reconnaissance to be of great value in describing the battle scenes. As a result I toured in detail every scene of activity of the Army of Northern Virginia. I would like to thank everybody who has played a part in maintaining the various battlefields, parks, cemeteries, and museums commemorating the campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Most sites are so laid out that one can easily re-live the days of 1861-65.

Alexander, E. P., Military Memoirs of a Confederate

Blackford, W. W., War Years With Jeb Stuart

Caldwell, J. F. S., History of a Brigade of South Carolians Known as Greggs and Subsequently as McGowans Brigade

Casler, John O., Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

Clark, Walter (ed.), Histories of Several Regiments and Battalions From North Carolina in the Great War 1861-65

Cullum, G. W., Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy

Dabney, R. L., Life and Campaigns of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson

Doubleday, Abner, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Douglas, Henry Kyd, I Rode With Stonewall

Eisenschiml, Otto, The Celebrated Case of Fitzjohn Porter

Elson, Henry W., Elsons New History, material accompanying Brady photography, published as Civil War Through the Camera

English Combatant, Battlefields of the South

Fish, Carl Russell, The American Civil War

Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lees Lieutenants

R. E. Lee

Henderson, G. F. R., Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

Heth, Harry, unpublished manuscript (courtesy of Mr. Emlyn H. Marsteller, Manassas, Va.)

Hotchkiss, Jed, Field Notebook No. 4, The Sharpsburg Battlefield

Hotchkiss, Jed, and Allan, William, Battlefields of VirginiaChancellorsville

Lindsley, J. B. (ed.), Military Annals of TennesseeConfederate

Long, A. L., Memoirs of Robert E. Lee

Longstreet, James, From Manassas to Appomattox

Macartney, Clarence E., Little Mac

Maurice, Frederick, An Aide-de-Camp of Lee (comprising an edition of the papers of Charles Marshall, also annotated Marshall)

Mitchell, Joseph B., Decisive Battles of the Civil War

Moore, Edward A., Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson

Palfrey, F. W., The Antietam and Fredericksburg

Pollard, E. A., Lee and His Lieutenants

The Lost Cause

Robertson, William J., a serire of articles (published in Richmond Times Dispatch, October 1934)

Ropes, John C., The Army Under Pope

Sheridan, Philip H., Personal Memoirs

Sorrel, Moxley, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer

Stackpole, E. J., Drama on the Rappahannock.

Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction

Watkins, Sam R., Co. Aytch

Webb, A. S., The Peninsula

Woodward, W. E., Meet General Grant

LIST OF MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES

Archives, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (a compilation of narratives by participants in the war)

Centennial of U.S. Military Academy (1802-1902) (a history of the Academy during that period)

Confederate Veteran

Harpers Weekly, 1861-65 (bound volumes of the magazine during the entire war period)

Land We Love (Southern magazine published 1866-69 and republished in bound volumes)

Letters of Dorsey Pender to His Wife (touching and informative series of letters covering Penders entire war career prior to his death at Gettysburg; microfilm copies obtained from University of North Carolina)

Official Records (complete authorized title: War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies)

Southern Historical Society Papers (collection of essays, articles, military reports, etc., covering the war period by contemporaries. Publication of papers commenced in 1876; last published volume, to writers knowledge, dated 1944)

Soldier in the Civil War, edited by Mottelay & Campbell-Copeland, 1885 (a compilation of illustrated narratives by participants in the war)

CHAPTER 1

I T HAD RAINED the day before, so that the infantry shuffled silently along the dirt road leading east through the forest. The soft, damp earth, its pungency faintly nostalgic to South Carolina boys far from home, felt good to tired feet, for many of McGowans men, in common with the rest of Lees Army, were practically shoeless. Dusk was turning into night. The gloom was accentuated by the tangles of blackjack and underbrush crowding in from the roadsides while the pine boughs seemed to meet overhead, making the road a virtual tunnel. Presently an orange glow appeared through the trees ahead. The men first thought a farmhouse or hay shed had been set afire by the recent shelling. It was, however, the May full moon. Now its reflection glinted from scabbard and musket. An aroused whippoorwill in a nearby thicket set up his maddeningly repetitious call.