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Works Listed in the Selected Bibliography Are Referred to by Surname of Author Only Notes Works listed in the Selected Bibliography are referred to by surname of author only. ABBREVIATIONS ACofS - Assistant Chief of Staff ActCofS Acting Chief of Staff AG Adjutant General (of an Army Command) AGO Adjutant General’s Ofice (of an Army command) AEF Anierican Expeditionary Force ACP Appointment, Commission, and Personnel Branch Bn. Battalion CofAC Chief of Air Corps CinC Commander-in-Chief CofS Chief of Staff ccc Civilian Conservation Corps CG Commanding General co Commanding Officer DCofS Deputy Chief of Staff DofA Department of the Army GCM Files General Marshall’s Files deeded to George C. Marshall Research Foundation G- 1 Administration G-2 Intelligence G-3 Operations G-4 Coordination (or Supply) GHQ General Headquarters JB Joint Board LofC Library of Congress NA National Archives NG National Guard NWC National War College OCS Office of the Chief of Staff OPD Operations Division Reg. Regiment RG Record Group SGS Secretary General Staff SW Div Southwestern Division TAG The Adjutant General of the Army TAG0 The Adjutant General’s Office of the Army TIG The Inspector General of the Army TIS The Infantry School USAFC U.S. Army Force in China VMI Virginia Military Institute WPD War Plans Division 372 Notes I: THE MARSHALLS OF UNIONTOWN For background material on chaps. I and I1 I read the Genius of Liberty, 1869- 1901, in microfilm form Helpful material came from interviews with Mrs J J Singer (General Marshall’s sister), Miss Mary Kate O’Bryon, Mrs Robert Carson, Jr. (a first cousin of Marshall’s), Mrs. George Underwood (Florence Bliss), Mrs Charles Gorley, Mrs. Richard Coulter, Mrs. Egbert (Catherine Lindsay) Armstrong, Mr. J. T. Shepler, and Mr J. Searight Marshall, General Marshall’s interviews, prin- cipally those of Feb 21 and 28, 1957, and a few items from interviews of Mar 6, Apr. 4 and 5. 1957, furnished the basis of these two chapters. Unless otherwise noted, all direct quotations attributed to Marshall come from these interviews, which were conducted by the author. I. Washington Post, Sept. 2, 1939, p. 9; i I. Rankins, “Morgan’s Cavalry and the Evening Star (Washington), Sept. 1, Home Guard at Augusta, Kentucky,” 1939, Sec. B, p 1 Filson Club Historical Quarterly, 2. Even Cen. Arnold did not become a XXVII,Oct. 1953. Duke, pp. 248-53 member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 12. The Biographical Encyclopedia of until 1942. Kentucky, p 659. 3. Although he attended St. Peter’s reg- 13. Clay included in his group of pro- ularly, he did not join until 1903 Southerners not only William Mar- when, upon the death of his partner, shall but also Drs. Joshua and Jona- A. W. Bliss, he was asked to assume than Bradford In 1862 he asked that his duties as warden and treasurer. Dr. Joshua Bradford be dismissed 4. The elder Marshall was furious to from the service of the United States. find that it omitted all of his chil- Clay was fair enough to include in dren Stuart B. Marshall to Col. Wil- his memoirs an official letter defend- liam Couper, Jan. 28, 1948, VMI ing Bradford’s record. See Clay, I, Alumni File. 496-99. 5. Kentucky relatives of Marshall 14. George C. Marshall, “Coal, Coke, pointed out that he resembled the Ore, Iron, the Wonderful Story of Bradfords more than the Marshalls Our Underground Wealth,” Union- in his aloofness. town, Mar. 13, 1886, clipping from 6. Paxton, pp 83-86. Albert Marshall Clipping Collection, 7. The chief source on Rev. William Book B, Fayette Facts, apparently Marshall is Taylor, p. 105. See also from News-Standard (Uniontown, Paxton, pp 32-33; Semple, p. 414; Pa ); Sheppard, p 43 Spencer, I, 14-16 15. “A Social Event in Kentucky,” May 8 Matilda’s great-grandmother was 2, 1873, clipping from Ttmes- Mary Catlett. Matilda’s brother was Chronicle (Cincinnati). named George Catlett Taliaferro. 16. Mrs. Stuart B. Marshall to author, Paxton, pp 83-86; The Biographical Sept. 26, 1960; Mrs. Singer interview, Encylopedia of Kentucky, p 313. Feb 2, 1960. 9. Collins, 11, 370, 772. William Mar- 17. Although they never bought the shall was a member of the State Con- house, this was the family home for stitutional Convention and an elec- twenty-six years. George Catlett Mar- tor for Zachary Taylor in 1849 and a shall, clerk, Dunbar, was listed for member of the legislature in 1834, jury duty,in Aug 1873 In a deed of 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1850 Mar. 9, 1874, George C. Marshall IS IO. The Kentucky Abolitionist Cassius listed as a citizen of Uniontown, M. Clay devoted several pages of his Deed Book, vol. 28, p. 54, Recorder’s memoirs to a lurid account of a de- Office, Fayette Co., Pa. Genius of bate with Marshall. Clay, I, 495-96. Liberty (Uniontown, Pa.), Oct. 9, 373 1874, announced that A. W. Boyd Nov. 11, 1880, Agreement Book, vol. was making alterations on his house 4, pp. 115-16, Recorder’s Office, Fay- on West Main Street. For family his- ette Co , Pa. tory, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Harbeson to 21. Frick Coke Co., A Brief Outline of author, June 27, 1963; Mrs. Singer the Development of the Great Con- interview, Feb. 2, 1960; Stuart B. nellmdle Coke Region. Marshall to Couper, Jan. 28. 1948, 22 Augusta had about 588 pop in 1850 gives information on birth dates of (see Collins 11, 262); Walter H. Ran- children, VMZ Alumnt Ftle; Mrs. kins to author, Dec. 27, 1962, notes Robert Carson, Jr., in an interview, that it reached a peak of approxi- on June 1, 1962, gave additional in- mately 2000 in 1905. Webster’s Geo- formation on the family. graphical Dictionary states it had 18. Genius of Liberty, June 8, 1876; Feb. dropped to some 1599 in 1957. Ran- 22, 1877. kins to author, Jan. io, 1963. 19. Sheppard, p. 41. 23. Between 1860 and 1896 Fayette 20. Ellis, ed , pp. 239, 582-87. For a biog- County went Democratic in every raphy of George C. Marshall see Nel- presidential election except in 1872 son’s Biographical Dictionary, 11, 610- and 1888. Clipping from Albert Mar- 11. Certificate of Incorporation of the shall Collection. Fayette Coke and Furnace Company, 11: END OF AN ERA I. All quotations of the General’s rem- 11. Croswell Bowen, “George C. Marshall iniscences are from tape recordings of Uniontown, Pa ,” PM, Mar. 30, which Marshall dictated in 1957. 1947, pp. 5-1 1, Kenneth Speer, “Gen- P. The hair won him the nickname eral Marshall Played Hookey, Hunted of “Flicker,” but no nickname ever Indians, Boyhood Friends Recall,” stuck to Marshall. Pittsburgh Sun Telegram, Jan. 12, 3. Marshall was baptized at St. Peter’s ’947 Episcopal Church, June 5, 1881, and 12 Fayette Coke and Furnace Co, to confirmed Feb. 7, 1896, by Bishop H C. Frick Coke Co , Oct. 1, 1889, Courtlandt Whitehead of Pittsburgh. and Kyle Coke Co, to H. C Frick Church Book, St. Peter’s Episcopal Coke Co., Oct. 1, 1889, Deed Book Church, Uniontown, Pa. vol. 91, pp. 394-405, Recorder’s Of- 4. The statue was made by the satirical fice, Fayette Co , Pa. artist David Blythe, who lived for a 13. Zbid. time in Uniontown. 14. Page Courier (Luray, Va), June 26, 5. Genius of Liberty, Sept. 28, 1882, 1890; Luray Times, Sept. 26, Oct. 3, p. 1; Hadden; Hurlbert; Searight. 1890; Genius of Liberty, Sept. 25, 6. The stockade was burned by the 1890. French, and in Marshall’s day there 15 Page Courier, Dec. 11, 1890; Genius were no markers and no reconstruc- of Liberty, Nov 6, 1890. tion to aid or impede imagination. 16. Strickler; Shenandoah Valley (New 7. Don S. Glass, Supt., Uniontown Market, Va.), Nov. 12 and Dec. 24, Schools, to author, Mar. 16, 1961. 8. Dean Acheson, “Homage to Gen. 1891. 17. Genius of Liberty, Feb. 4, 1892; Marshall,” The Reporter, XXI, Nov. 26, 1959, 28 See also Acheson, p. 160. Stephen Greene us. George C. Mar- 9. His recollections date chiefly from shall in the Court of Common Pleas the period after 1890 when the greatly of Fayette County no. 98, filed Oct. reduced family income would have 20, 1891 (In 1892 Mr. Marshall was curtailed social activities anyway. ordered to show cause why judgment io. Miss Mary Kate O’Bryon interview, should not be entered against him in Feb. 4, 1960. two of the suits but it is not clear 374 Notes from the record what final disposi- 20 Croswell Bowen, loc at. tion was made). 21. Cited as the “normal” rate in 1894. 18. Marshall interview, Feb. 28, 1957; Genius of Liberty, June 28, 1894, p. 4. Mrs Singer interview, Feb 2, 1960. 22 Genius of Liberty, Apr 9, 1891. 19 A succession of short-lived private 23. Gentus of Liberty, editorial, Mar. 26, academies were apparently estab- 1891, p 2; Apr 9, 1891, editorial, Apr. lished in Uniontown at this period, 5, 1894. This, incidentally, was the often succeeding each other in the occasion when Company C from same business No record is clear on Uniontown, mobilized for strike duty Marshall’s attendance in the years with its regiment of the Pennsylvania 1895-97 He probably also attended National Guard, was dismissed when one or more predecessors of the Uni- the men were overheard expressing versity School in the two years pre- sympathy with the strikers. ceding 111: FIRST CAPTAIN Other than the interviews with Gen Marshall of Feb 21, 28, Mar G and 13, 1957, the chief sources for this chapter were the official records of the Virginia Military Institute, such as Order Books, Morning Reports, Letter Books, Alumni Files, An- nual Reports, Annual Catalogues, Cadet Register, and the VhlI yearbook, T/ZC Bomb, for igoi For background I have drawn on interviews with Banks Hudson, Gen Charles S.
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