Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, vol 1 (April 1861-November 1863)

Military Reminiscences of the
Civil War V1
by Jacob Dolson
Cox

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MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR
BY JACOB DOLSON COX, A.M., LL.D.
Formerly Major-General commanding Twenty-Third Army Corps
VOLUME I.
APRIL 1861--NOVEMBER 1863

PREFACE

My aim in this book has been to reproduce my own experience in our
Civil War in such a way as to help the reader understand just how the
duties and the problems of that great conflict presented themselves
successively to one man who had an active part in it from the beginning
to the end. In my military service I was so conscious of the benefit it
was to me to get the personal view of men who had served in our own
or other wars, as distinguished from the general or formal history, that I
formed the purpose, soon after peace was restored, to write such a
narrative of my own army life. My relations to many prominent officers
and civilians were such as to give opportunities for intimate knowledge
of their personal qualities as well as their public conduct. It has seemed
to me that it might be useful to share with others what I thus learned,
and to throw what light I could upon the events and the men of that
time.
As I have written historical accounts of some campaigns separately, it
may be proper to say that I have in this book avoided repetition, and
have tried to make the personal narrative supplement and lend new
interest to the more formal story. Some of the earlier chapters appeared
in an abridged form in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," and the
closing chapter was read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal
Legion. By arrangements courteously made by the Century Company
and the Commandery, these chapters, partly re-written, are here found
in their proper connection.
Though my private memoranda are full enough to give me reasonable
confidence in the accuracy of these reminiscences, I have made it a
duty to test my memory by constant reference to the original
contemporaneous material so abundantly preserved in the government
publication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies. Where the series of these records is not given, my references
are to the First Series, with the abbreviation O. R., and I have preferred
to adhere to the official designation of the volumes in parts, as each
volume then includes the documents of a single campaign.
J. D. C.

NOTE.--The manuscript of this work had been completed by General
Cox, and placed in the hands of the publishers several weeks before his
untimely death at Magnolia, Mass., August 4, 1900. He himself had
read and revised some four hundred pages of the press-work. The work
of reading and revising the remaining proofs and of preparing a general
index for the work was undertaken by the undersigned from a deep
sense of obligation to and loving regard for the author, which could not
find a more fitting expression at this time. No material changes have
been made in text or notes. Citations have been looked up and
references verified with care, yet errors may have crept in, which his
well-known accuracy would have excluded. For all such and for the
imperfections of the index, the undersigned must accept responsibility,
and beg the indulgence of the reader, who will find in the text itself
enough of