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THE LIFE OF
ISAAC INGALLS STEVENS

BY HIS SON

HAZARD STEVENS

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HAZARD STEVENS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THIS RECORD
OF
A NOBLE AND PATRIOTIC LIFE
IS DEDICATED
TO
THE YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA

PREFACE

For many years I have felt impelled to write this Life, not only injustice to General Stevens’s memory, but also as an act of duty to theyoung men of the country, that the example of his noble and patrioticcareer might not be lost to posterity. An only son, closely associatedfrom boyhood with him, his chief of staff in the Civil War, and alwaysthe recipient of his counsel and confidence, the opportunities thusgiven me to know his sentiments and characteristics, and to witness somany of his actions, plainly augment the duty of making his record morewidely known. In these pages, setting aside, as far as possible, thebias of filial respect and affection, I seek to simply narrate theactual facts of his life.

Since beginning this work in 1877, I have been greatly assisted by datafurnished by many of General Stevens’s contemporaries, former brotherofficers, and associates in the public service, many of whom have nowpassed on. I render my grateful thanks to them for such aid, and fortheir words of appreciation of General Stevens and encouragement to hisbiographer, and especially to Generals Zealous B. Tower, Henry J. Hunt,Benjamin Alvord, Edward D. Townsend, Rufus Ingalls, A.A. Humphreys, E.O.C. Ord, Thomas W. Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston, G.T. Beauregard, WilliamH. French, Truman Seymour, Orlando M. Poe, Silas Casey, John G. Barnard,M.C. Meiggs, Joseph Hooker, George W. Cullum, David Mor...