Authors: David Herbert Donald

Lincoln (154 page)

360
“served superior”:
McClellan to AL, July 7, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

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“the whole country”: CW,
5:279.

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“‘
I will get off
”: Sandburg, 1:602.

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“the army safely?”: CW,
5:310.

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“magnitude of the crisis”:
McClellan,
Civil War Papers,
p. 348.

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“General-in-Chief”: CW,
5:312–313.

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“General in the country”: CW,
5:284.

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recommended by General Scott:
Wallace J. Schutz and Walter N. Trenerry,
Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), chap. 8.

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his tacit approval:
Kenneth P. Williams,
Lincoln Finds a General
(New York: Macmillan Co., 1949), 1:252–254.

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“no wise omit this”: CW,
5:318–319.

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“lived in vain!”:
Francis Fisher Browne,
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
(Chicago: Browne & Howell Co., 1913), 2:423.

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“must be done”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:70–71.

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were “forever free”: CW,
5:222.

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“without consulting me”: CW,
5:219.

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“subdue the enemy”: CW,
5:222, 421.

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early as June 18:
For a rather too circumstantial account of this conversation, see Charles E. Hamlin,
The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin
(Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1899), pp. 428–429.

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“slaves in the South”:
David Homer Bates,
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office
(New York: Century Co., 1907), pp. 138–141. For a skeptical view of this account of the drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation, see Mark E. Neely, Jr.,
The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 108–109.

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could enforce it:
Louis M. Starr,
Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), p. 125.

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“lose the game!”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
pp. 20–22.

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“the best policy”: CW,
5:329–330.

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“within a state”: CW,
5:329.

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“it may exist”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:555.

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a historic occasion:
Lincoln’s own recollection of this meeting, as recorded by the artist Francis B. Carpenter, is in Carpenter,
Six Months,
pp. 20–22. Chase’s record is in Chase,
Diary,
pp. 98–100; Stanton’s memorandum, dated July 22, 1862, is in the Stanton MSS, LC. The first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is in
CW,
5:336–337.

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sympathy with the President:
For Smith’s views, see Nelson H. Loomis, “Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet by Hon. John P. Usher ... with a Foreword and a Sketch of the Life of the Author” [1924?], typed copy, A. J. Beveridge MSS, LC.

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important border states:
Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman,
Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 240; William Stuart to Lord Russell, Aug. 22, 1862, Stuart MSS, Public Records Office, London.

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“after a victory”:
George Bemis, Diary, Nov. 15, 1862, Massachusetts Historical Society.

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“emancipating negroes”:
Ida M. Tarbell,
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
(New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 2:113–115; Leonard Swett to Laura Swett, Aug. 10, 1862, David Davis MSS, ISHL.

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“necessaries of life”: Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War
(1917), 2:41–42.

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“injury than good”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:555.

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“join the rebellion”:
Frederic Bancroft, ed.,
Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913), 1:209.

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“Hamlin try
”; James G. Smart, ed.,
A Radical View: The “Agate” Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 1861–1865
(Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1976), 2:74–75.

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“good of mankind”: CW,
5:370–375.

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“North and South”:
“The National Controversy,”
Pacific Appeal,
Sept. 6, 1862.

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“homes in America!”:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 112.

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“benefit of the enslaved”:
Garnet, in
Pacific Appeal,
Oct. 11, 1862.

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“save the Union”: CW,
5:388–389.

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“to stand on”:
Weed to Seward, Aug. 23, 1862; Ashmun to AL, Aug. 25, 1862, both in Lincoln MSS, LC.

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“to that music”:
Howe to AL, Aug. 25, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

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“progress of events”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
p. 22.

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“alone prevents it”:
McClellan,
Civil War Papers,
p. 374.

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“without reinforcements”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:563–564.

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“do what I wish”:
Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
pp. 216–217.

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“these people now”:
Hay,
Diary,
pp. 45–46.

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“the contest proceeds”: CW,
5:403–404.

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“unknown to us”: CW
, 5:478.

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“army with him”:
Hay,
Diary,
45–47; Welles,
Diary,
1:113.

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“called me to it”:
McClellan,
Civil War Papers,
p. 428.

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“the [War] Department”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:97–98.

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“disrespectful to the President”:
“Opinion of Stanton, Chase, Smith & Bates of Want of Confidence in Genl. McClellan, given to the President,” Sept. 2, 1862, copy, Lincoln MSS, LC.

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“tools we have”:
Bates’s note, on the document previously cited; John Niven, ed.,
The Salmon P. Chase Papers,
vol. 1
Journals—1829–1872
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993), p. 369;
Hay, Diary,
p. 47. Lincoln’s words in Chase’s diary, “gladly resign his place,” have caused some controversy among historians. J. G. Randall, in
Lincoln the President,
2:112–113, believed the passage, which we have only in the handwriting of a copyist, should read “gladly resign his plan.” I adopted that reading in my edition of Chase’s diaries,
Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet,
pp. 118–120, but I defer to the authoritative edition of those diaries edited by Professor John Niven and his associates.

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“Harrisburg and Philadelphia”: CW,
5:501.

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“will do anything”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:116.

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“side of the mountains”: CW,
5:417.

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“and the people”:
Strong,
Diary,
p. 256; Samuel Galloway to AL, Sept. 4, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC; Robert Laird Collier,
Moral Heroism: Its Essentialness to the Crisis. A Sermon, Preached to the Wabash Ave. M.E. Church, Chicago, Sabbath Evening, August 3, 1862,
pp. 7–8.

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“all the cabinet”:
Garrett Davis to AL, Sept. 7, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

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“fatal concessions”: Chase, Diary,
p. 136.

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in late September:
Andrew, in Allan Nevins,
The War for the Union
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1960), 2:240. For much further detail, and some speculation, on the Altoona conference, see William Best Hesseltine,
Lincoln and the War Governors
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), chap. 13.