Notes
- ↑ McCaskey, John Piersol (1888), Franklin Square Song Collection: Two Hundred Favorite Songs, Volume 5 , retrieved June 27, 2014
- ↑ Historical Register & Dictionary of the US Army
- ↑ Hannan, Caryn (2008). Connecticut Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1, A–G. Hamburg, MI: State History Publications, LLC. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-1-878592-72-9.
- ↑ McAdam, David; et al. (1897). History of the Bench and Bar of New York. Vol. I. New York, NY: New York History Company. p. 262.
- ↑ Eicher, p.773.
- ↑ Thomas J. Reed (November 12, 2015). Avenging Lincoln's Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-61147-828-0.
- ↑ Eicher, pp. 210-11.
- ↑ From Dix's report to Union Secretary of War E. Stanton, July 23, 1862, Official Records, Series II, Vol. 4, pp. 265-68.
- ↑ pp. 166, 175, 177, 227, 318, Welles, Gideon. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson , Vol. I, 1861 – March 30, 1864. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911).
- ↑ Warner, p. 126.
- ↑ "DEATH OF GEN. JOHN A. DIX.; A LONG AND BUSY LIFE ENDED. THE EX-GOVERNOR'S LAST HOURS DYING PEACEFULLY WHILE UNCONSCIOUS THE STORY OF HIS REMARKABLE CAREER AS CITIZEN, SOLDIER, AND STATESMAN. JOHN A. DIX'S CAREER. (Published 1879)". The New York Times. April 22, 1879. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
- ↑ Dix, Morgan. "Memoirs of John Adams Dix," Volumes 1 and 2 (1883, Harper & Brothers).
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References
Secondary sources
- Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Union Pacific Railroad, UP - History of the UP logo . Retrieved June 8, 2005. Timeline that also includes UP presidency successions.
- Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders, Louisiana State University Press, 1964, ISBN 0-8071-0822-7.
Primary sources
- Dix, Morgan (compiler). Memoirs of John Adams Dix, (1883). Vol. I Vol. II
- Dix, John Adams. Speeches and Occasional Addresses. Volume II (1864) online edition
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion Archived September 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine : a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
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