2. Schaff, Morris, "The Spirit of Old West Point, 1858-1862,"
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907, p. 31-32.
* Between December, 1862 and March, 1864, "True Blue" wrote 44
letters to the Rochester Evening Express. In none of
these letters does he leave any obvious clues as to his
identity. A very strong case can be made, however, that "True
Blue" was Capt. Patrick H. Sullivan of Co. K.
3. Norton, Oliver W., The Attack and Defense of Little Round
Top, (New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1913;
Re-printed, Dayton: Morningside House, Inc., 1978), p. 140.
Except when noted, all references are taken from Farley's "No.
9."
4. Ibid., p. 134.
5. Farley, Porter, Reminiscences of the 140th Regiment New
York State Volunteers. (Rochester: Rundel Library Microfilm,
No. 8.)
6. Attack and Defense, p. 133.
7. Fox, Frederick, New York at Gettysburg Vol. III
(Albany:
J. B. Lyon Company, 1902), p. 956.
8. "From the 140th-The Battle of Gettysburg," Rochester
Evening Express, July 8, 1863.
9. "The 140th in the Late Fight," Rochester Evening
Express,
July 11, 1863.
10. "From the 140th-Interesting Particulars of the Late Fight,"
Rochester Evening Express, July 11, 1863.
11. Leeper, M., "Gettysburg: The Part Taken in the Battle by the
Fifth Corps," National Tribune, April 30,
1885.
12. Attack and Defense, P. 219. This is taken from the
Official
Report of Lt. Col. Welch.
13. "The 140th in the Battle of Gettysburg - Particulars of
its Action," Rochester Evening Express, August 20, 1863.
14. Hazen, Samuel R., "'Fighting the Good Fight': The 140th
New York and its Work on Little Round Top," National
Tribune, September 13, 1894.
15. Hawthorne, Frederick W., Gettysburg.- Stories of Men and
Monuments. (Hanover, Pennsylvania; Association of
Licensed
Battlefield Guides, 1988), p. 55.
16. Rochester Evening Express, August 20, 1863.
17. Attack and Defense, p. 134.
18. New York at Gettysburg, p. 957.
19. Rochester Evening Express, July 11, 1863.
20. Hazen, National Tribune.
21. Rochester Evening Express, July 11, 1863.
22. Youcker, Clayton, (ed.), The Military Memoirs of Captain
Henry Cribben, (Chicago, privately printed, 1911),
p. 21.
23. "Killed and Wounded of the 140th Regiment," Rochester
Daily
Union and Advertiser, July 9, 1863.
24. "The 140th N.Y.V. Turned into a Zouave Regiment,"
Rochester
Daily Union and Advertiser, January 8, 1864.
25. Ernst, Louis, "Casualty List for the Battle of Gettysburg,"
(Warrenton, Virginia, July 20, 1863, 140th New York
Regimental Records).