xiv                                          ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Marieka Brouwer, who, under the direction of Onno Brou-
wer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cartographic Laboratory,
prepared the New York map found on the end papers.
This volume is dedicated to Professor John Y Simon of Southern
Illinois University. For forty years John has edited The Papers of Ulysses
S. Grant. An expert on the Civil War, Illinois history, Abraham Lincoln,
and Grant, John has written and spoken innumerable times on these
subjects. As America's senior editor of historical documents, John reg-
ularly testifies before the U.S. Congress when documentary editing is
being considered. John was also the driving force behind the creation
of The Association for Documentary Editing founded in 1978. He was
one of its first presidents.