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NUMBER 9 vol. 32 (May 1866), pp. 733–737, and reprinted in J. Willard Brown, The Signal Corps, pp. 553–558 [verses quoted here are from p. 554].

16. Joseph M. Brown, The Battle of Allatoona, October 5, 1864 (1890), pp. 15–16, 23.

17. J. M. Brown, Battle of Allatoona, pp. 24–25. "The Lone Grave" does not appear in The Songs of Paul Dresser (1927), but compare therein, pp. 28–32, "He Fought for the Cause He Thought Was Right."

18. Judson Kilpatrick and J. Owen Moore, Allatoona, an Historical and Military Drama in Five Acts (acting edition; "French's Standard Drama," No. 376 [1875]), p. 46.

19. Samuel H. M. Byers, Allatoona, a Play in Four Acts (1905), p. 62 and following pages.

20. Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, edited by D. W. Whittle (1877), pp. 68–70. Substantially the same account has been published in a number of places; see, for example, the historical note on the sheet music cited in note 30, below, and Ira D. Sankey, My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns and of Sacred Songs and Solos (1907), pp. 168–170. None of these accounts is quite accurate. [The author is indebted to William H. Klusmeier, general manager of the Rockford Newspapers, Inc., for locating the report of the convention in The Rockford Register (30 April 1870, p. 4) and thereby correctly fixing the date of the convention.]

21. There is some difference of opinion as to what Bliss's first two initials stood for, although the principal accounts accept Whittle's conclusion—based upon a Bliss family genealogy signed "P. P. Bliss, 1861," which Whittle found among Bliss's papers—that they stood for Philip Paul (Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, pp. 15, 16).

22. Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, pp. 42, 70.

23. Information on Whittle's military service can be found in his pension file in the National Archives, Soldier Certificate [SC] 995511, RG 15, and in OR as follows: vol. 24, pt. 2, pp. 298, 682, and pt. 3, p. 537; vol. 38, pt. 4, p. 461; vol. 39, pt. 3, p. 96; vol. 44, pp. 74–75, 603–604; and vol. 47, pt. 2, pp. 25–26. The citation is quoted from Brigadier General Thomas E. G. Ransom's report, Near Vicksburg, 26 May 1863 (OR, vol. 24, pt. 2, p. 298). Whittle's brevet majority was for "faithful and meritorious service during the campaign against the city of Mobile and its defences" (War Department General Order 148, 14 October 1865, Section III, p. 58).

24. Letter, Howard to H. Clay Evans, commissioner of pensions, 9 September 1899, in Whittle's pension file, SC 995511, RG 15, National Archives.

25. Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, pp. 68–70.

26. Unaddressed communication concerning a Confederate deserter that was prepared by Captain and Assistant Provost Marshal General D. W. Whittle at Headquarters, Department and Army of the Tennessee, near Marietta, Georgia, 5 October 1864 (OR, vol. 39, pt. 3, pp. 95–96).

27. Scheips, "Battle of Allatoona," p. 39.

28. Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, p. 43; Victor Charles Detty, P P Bliss, July 9, 1838–December 29, 1876, a Centennial Sketch of His Life and Work, 1838–1938, with Selected Gospel Hymns [hereinafter cited as Centennial Sketch] (1938), p. 16.

29. Sankey, My Life, p. 170.