rect a monument to his memory. He was their
friend when to be so drew upon him much adverse criticism.

( 1) _Manassas to Appomattox_ (Longstreet), pp. 242, 257, 401.

( 2) _Ibid_., 263.

( 3) _Abraham Lincoln_ (Nicolay and Hay), vol. vi., p. 159.

( 4) In letters, dated in May, 1863, to Col. Wm. S. Furay (then
a correspondent (Y. S.) of the Cincinnati _Gazette_ with Rosecrans'
army in Tennessee, I detailed the general plan of Lee's advance
northward, and gave the date when the movement would commence.

( 5) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part III., p. 36.

( 6) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part II., p. 125. Piatt, June
11th, wired Schenck from Winchester, after inspecting the place,
that Milroy "can whip anything the rebels can fetch here."--_Ibid_.,
p. 161.

( 7) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part II., pp. 130-7, 159-81.

( 8) A few days before this event I peremptorily ordered all
officers' wives and citizens visiting in my command to go North,
but the ladies held an indignation meeting and waited on General
Milroy, with the request that he countermand my order, which he
did, at the same time saying something about my being too apprehensive
of danger. I had the pleasure of meeting and greeting these same
ladies in Washington, July 5th, on their arrival from Winchester
_via_ Staunton, Richmond, _Castle-Thunder_, the James and Potomac
Rivers.

( 9) _War Records_, Early's Rep., vol. xxvii., Part II., p. 460.

(10) His son, Major Hugh H. Gordon, served efficiently on my staff
in Florida, Georgia, and Cuba (Spanish War), as did Captain J. E.
B. Stuart, son of the great Confederate cavalry General; also
Major John Gary Evans (ex-Governor South Carolina), and others
closely related to distinguished Confederate officers. See Appendix F.

(11) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part II., p. 491.

(12) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part II., p. 46.

(13) General Johnson's Report (Confederate), _War Records_, vol.
xxvii., Part II., p. 501.

(14) An orderly who attempted to carry on horseback a valise
containing papers, etc., of mine, threw it way in a field as he
rode into the mountains. A Quakeress, Miss Mary Lupton, witnessed
the act from her home, and found the valise and returned it to me
with all its contents, after the battle of Opequon, Sept. 19, 1864.

(15) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part II., p. 136.

(16) _War Records_, vol. xxvii., Part II., pp. 501-2.

(17) _Ibid_., p. 443.

(18) _War