537 On June 25, Fremantle: Ibid., 236.
537 This was the same day: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 195.
538 “I think I can throw”: The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Lynda Lasswell Crist, ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997), Vol. 9, 244.
538 “We use Confederate money”: Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, June 23, 1863, ibid., 238.
539 “to take position”: Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee (New York: Appleton, 1894), 265.
539 Major-General Fuller condemns: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 195.
540 The big cavalry battle at Brandy Station: Wert, A Glorious Army, 251.
540 “eight-mile train”: Ibid., 271.
540 Stuart later boasted: Ibid.
541 “Can you tell me”: Ibid., 273.
543 Longstreet ordered Fairfax: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 294.
544 Stuart’s absence was to have: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 105.
544 “the spirit that inhibits victory”: Ibid., 68.
545 Longstreet’s corps complain: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 249.
545 “It had not been intended”: Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership, Gary W. Gallagher, ed. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999), 18.
546 “I had a long talk”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 250.
547 Although Pickett was something of a dandy: Ibid., 247.
547 Heavy rain slowed: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 64.
549 “He wore a long gray jacket”: Fremantle, 198.
550 Except for the advantage: Edwin C. Bearss, Fields of Honor (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006), 158.
551 “I cannot think”: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 303.
552 “saith among the trumpets”: Job 39:25.
554 A “long gray line”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 69–70.
554 When General Heth: Ibid.
556 “exhausted and disorganized”: Robert K. Krick, Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 284.
557 Fremantle managed to make his way: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 255.
558 Taylor admired Ewelclass="underline" Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 182.
558 It is possible that Taylor: Ibid., 190.
558 Given the fatal phrase: Ibid.
559 In other versions: Gallagher, Three Days at Gettysburg, 28.
559 In mid-afternoon he paused: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 254.
560 Longstreet was surprised: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 304.
561 Besides all that: Ibid., 306.
562 Longstreet replied that McLaws: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 76.
562 Since Longstreet’s corps was not yet up: Ibid., 77.
563 “After he had reached Gettysburg”: Ibid.
563 It was not in his nature: Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, The Fremantle Diary, Walter Lord, ed. (New York: Capricorn, 1960), 292, n3.
563 He sent for Major General Jubal Early: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 78.
564 He thought that the Federals: Ibid., 79.
565 Lee must have had such feelings: Taylor, General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 156.
565 “If I attack from my right”: Ibid, 80.
566 “intrench themselves strongly”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 256.
567 “General Lee never, in his life”: Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Gettysburg to Appomattox (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), Vol. 3, 110.
567 “Gentlemen, we will attack”: “The Gettysburg Campaign,” in Southern Historical Society Papers, Robert Alonzo Brock, ed. (Richmond, Va.: W.M. Ellis Jones Sons, September 1915), New Series, No. 2, Vol. 40, 275.
569 “My son, I hope you will soon”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 131.
570 “The enemy is here”: Ibid., 89.
570 “The stars were shining”: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 307.
570 “the truly American custom”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 257.
570 Freeman has Lee eagerly looking: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 86.
570 In any case, no attack: Wert, General James Longstreet, 272.
571 “The enemy occupied a series of high ridges”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 257.
571 “A dead silence”: Ibid., 258.
571 He may very welclass="underline" Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 87.
571 The Prussian observer: Ibid., 90.
572 “What can detain Longstreet”: Gallagher, Three Days at Gettysburg, 159.
572 “were suffering from the lack”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 94.
573 “quantities of cherries”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 258.
573 “When things go wrong”: Fuller, Grant and Lee, 198.
575 “profoundly still”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 259.
575 “polkas and waltzes”: Ibid., 260.
576 “apathy”: Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer (New York: Neale, 1905), 164.
577 “irritated and annoyed”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 89.
580 Although that battle lasted: Noah Trudeau, The Second Day: A Testing of Courage (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 272.
580 “Well, General, you are here”: Wert, General James Longstreet, 282.
581 “was doing well”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 260.
581 “We have not been as successful”: Wert, General James Longstreet, 282.
582 It was Lee’s job: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 105.
583 “General, I have been”: Wert, General James Longstreet, 283.
585 All together, Lee had 125: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 109–10.
585 The rest were scattered: Ibid.
585 As Longstreet reckoned: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 325.
586 “filled with wounded”: Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, 262.
586 “the range of heights”: Ibid., 263.
587 “little clump of trees”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 111.
588 “I heard a thud on my right”: John H. Worsham, One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry (New York: Neale, 1912), 129.
590 “if General Longstreet’s attack should fail”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 114.
590 Lee folded up his map: Ibid.
590 “If the artillery”: Ibid., 115.
591 “entirely successful”: Edward Porter Alexander, Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative (New York: Scribner, 1914), 421.
591 “calm and confident”: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 116.
592 “For every Southern boy”: From William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust. See Charles Shelton Aiken, William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 115.
594 The first salvo: Bearss, Fields of Honor, 197.
594 saw “a shell go through six horses”: Earl J. Hess, Pickett’s Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg (Chapel Hilclass="underline" University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 149.
594 “Shells burst in the air”: War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 27, Part I (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889), 706.
594 “made a very hell”: Jacob Hoke, Historical Reminiscences of the War (Chambersburg, Pa.: M.A. Foltz Printer, 1884), 81.
594 “too much elevation”: Bearss, Fields of Honor, 196.
594 “a display of fireworks”: Jeffrey D. Wert, Gettysburg: Day Three (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 182.
594 “sheltered lines of infantry”: “Review of the Gettysburg Campaign,” in Southern Historical Society Papers, R.A. Brock, ed. (Richmond, Va.: Southern Historical Society, 1909), Vol. 37, 137.
595 “For God’s sake come quick”: Wert, General James Longstreet, 290.
595 Although Brigadier General Hunt was trying: Freeman, Robert E. Lee, Vol. 3, 120.
596 Lee’s artillery chief: Ibid., 121.
596 “nearly exhausted”: Ibid.
596 Alexander reported to Longstreet: Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, 350.
596 “fill up his ammunition chests”: Ibid., 351.
596 “grand march moved bravely on”: Ibid.