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EARLY EXPERIENCES 1779 to March 2, 1903, 2 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 1:139–41; Francis Paul Prucha, The Sword of the Republic: The United Army on the Frontier, 1783–1846 (Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 1977), pp. 17–24.

$15$ Marvin A, Kreidberg and Merton G. Henry, History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army, 1775–1945 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955), pp. 4446, hereafter cited as Mobilization; Benson J. Lossing, The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869), pp. 366, 742; American State Papers, Military Affairs, 7 vols, (Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1834), 1:618; Charles W. Elliott, Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man (New York: Macmillan Co., 1937), p. 151.

$16$ American State Papers, Military Affairs, 1:495.

$17$ Elliott, Winfield Scott, pp. 146–47, 162.

$18$ American State Papers, Military Affairs,' 1:330, 425; William Duane, A Hand Book for Infantry, 9th ed. (Philadelphia: William Duane, 1814), p. 20; Callan, Military Laws, pp. 136, 213, 219, 228, 240.

$19$ American State Papers, Military Affairs, 1:199–200; Elliott, Winfield Scott, pp. 228–29.

$20$ General Regulations for the United States Army, 1821, pp. 85–89; Michael Howard, War in European History (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1976), pp. 83–84.

$21$ General Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1831, p, 67.<section end="Note21" />

$22$ <section begin="Note22" />Justin H. Smith, The War With Mexico, 2 vols, (New York: Macmillan Co., 1919), 1:143–80 passim; Kreidberg and Henry, Mobilization, pp. 73–75.<section end="Note22" />

$23$ <section begin="Note23" />Mounted infantry men were dragoons who reached the battlefield on horse but as foot soldiers.<section end="Note23" />

$24$ <section begin="Note24" />Callan, Military Laws, pp. 367–69, 373, 375, and 380; Kreidberg and Henry, Mobilization, p. 73; Mexican War Correspondence (Washington, D.C.: Wendell and van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848), p. 458.<section end="Note24" />

$25$ <section begin="Note25" />Mexican War Correspondence, pp. 417–19, 498–500; Edward D. Mansfield, The Mexican War: A History of Its Origin (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1850), p. 57.<section end="Note25" />

$26$ <section begin="Note26" />Mexican War Correspondence, pp. 513–14; John D, Eisenhower, So Far From God: The U.S. War with Mexico 1846–1848 (New York; Random House, 1989), pp. 178–91; Dastrup, Kings of Battle, pp. 71–78.<section end="Note26" />

$27$ <section begin="Note27" />R. S. Ripley, The War with Mexico (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849), pp. 17, 55–56; Mansfield, The Mexican War, pp. 225–27.<section end="Note27" />

$28$ <section begin="Note28" />Stanley L. Falk, "Artillery for the Land Service; The Development of a System," Military Affairs 28 (Fall 1964); 97–110.<section end="Note28" />

$29$ <section begin="Note29" />Regulations of the Army of the United States, 1857, p. 13.<section end="Note29" />

$30$ <section begin="Note30" />Ibid,, pp. 13, 71–73.<section end="Note30" />

$31$ <section begin="Note31" />George B. McClellan, McClellan's Own Story: The War of the Union (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1887), p. 2; War Department General Orders (WD GO) 49, 1861.<section end="Note31" />

$32$ <section begin="Note32" />McClellan, McClellan's Own Story, p. 68.<section end="Note32" />

$33$ <section begin="Note33" />The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Ser. 1, 53 vols. (Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1881–98), 5:11–17, hereafter cited as OR; WD GO 49, 1861.<section end="Note33" />

$34$ <section begin="Note34" />Robert M. Epstein, "The Creation and Evolution of the Army Corps in the American Civil War," Journal of Military History 35 (Jan 1991): 21–46; OR, 5:11–67 passim, Congress provided for army corps on 17 July 1862.<section end="Note34" />

$35$ <section begin="Note35" />A cavalry squadron was and still is equivalent to a battalion.<section end="Note35" />

$36$ <section begin="Note36" />Philip H. Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General of the United States Army, 2 vols. (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1888), 1:347.<section end="Note36" />

$37$ <section begin="Note37" />Ibid.; B. W. Crowninshielf, "Cavalry in Virginia During the War of the Rebellion," Journal of the Military Service Institution 12 (May 1891): 527–31; Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General, 4 vols, (New York: Macmillan, 1949), 2:483, 487; OR, 25:471–72; Moses Harris, "The Union Cavalry," Journal of the U.S. Cavalry Association 5 (Mar 1892): 2–16.<section end="Note37" />

$38$ <section begin="Note38" />Henry J. Hunt, "Our Experience in Artillery Administration," Journal of the Military <section end="Note38" />