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Notes

1 Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War (London: OUP, 1973) xv.

2 David Lundberg, "American Literature of War: The Civil War, World War I and World War II, American Quarterly 36(1989): 372. Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (New York: OUP, 1962) ix.

3 Aaron xviii

4 Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (Indianapolis: The Bobb's-Merrill Company, 1951): 306-307.

5 William Dean Howells, review of Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty, Atlantic Monthly, 20(1867): 120-122.

6 Thomas Fick, "Genre Wars and the Rhetoric of Manhood in Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty," Nineteenth-Century Literature 46(1992): 473-494.

7 Eric Solomon, "The Novelist as Soldier: Cooke and De Forest," American Literary Realism 1870-1910, 19.3(1987: 84.

8 John C. Heenan, "the Benicia Boy," American prize fighter, defeated by Tom Sayers the British champion in 1860 after 37 rounds lasting more than two hours. Author's note.

9 John William De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession to Loyalty (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867) 115.