Meade replied (p. 189) that "...neither the United States Government, myself, nor General Kilpatrick authorized, sanctioned, or approved the burning of the city of Richmond and the killing of Mr. Davis..."
Subsequent chapters in Schultz's book deal with the complications of retrieving Dahlgren's body and giving it a proper burial in the north, and with an ill-fated attempt by the Confederates to create chaos and draw blood in northern cities (Chicago among them) by sending disguised mercenaries down from Canada.
But Chapter 22 ("Desperate Measures: Who Wrote the Dahlgren Papers?") is loaded with Schultz's own beliefs and the views of others as regards the legitimacy of the papers. The people in the south believed the papers were real, and those in the north chose to believe the opposite. On pages 242-245 Schultz reprints what he asserts are the actual orders that Dahlgren was carrying with him. Back and forth, back and forth the evidence and the arguments go in this chapter. What is a reader to believe?
As to the reception of Schultz's book by other scholars and critics, not all reviews are glowing. James O. Hall writes that "...there are many nagging errors of fact in Schultz's book." Among those flaws, Hall insists, is Schultz's apparent flip-flop on the credibility of Dahlgren's papers. "At first Schultz seems to accept the authenticity of the wording...as published in the Richmond newspapers," Hall writes. "Then he switches to a belief that the Confederates forged substitute documents with inflammatory language in order to justify a campaign of terror against the north."
And in asserting that the papers were a forgery, "Schultz completely missed the point - chronology," Hall continues. The writer goes on to take readers through the window of time from the moment General Lee saw the papers, President Davis saw them, and the bottom line for Hall is that "there was not enough intervening time for a sophisticated...
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