Lincoln (156 page)

392
“cowardly, and shameful”:
Wallace J. Schutz and Walter N. Trenerry,
Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), p. 176.

393
“neglected race”: CW,
5:173.

393
“Cherokee Nation”: CW,
5:439.

393
“our red brethren”: CW,
6:151–152. This meeting was on Mar. 27, 1863.

394
man to his death: CW,
5:542–543.

395
“before the Locos”:
O. J. Hollister,
Life of Schuyler Colfax
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), p. 199.

395
Much of the message:
The full text of the message is in
CW,
5:518–537.

396
“our military reach”:
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren,
Memoir of John A. Dahlgren
(Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1882), p. 382.

396
“make them free”:
N. Worth Brown and Randolph C. Downes, eds., “A Conference with Abraham Lincoln: From the Diary of Reverend Nathan Brown,”
Northwest Ohio Quarterly
22 (Spring 1950): 61–62.

397
“two thirds of the States”:
Chase to AL, Nov. 28, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

397
from a “hallucination”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:591.

397
“problem is solved”:
Davis to Leonard Swett, Nov. 26, 1862, Davis MSS, ISHL.

397
“proclamation of September 22”: CW,
5:462–463.

398
“the Apprentice System”:
T. J. Barnett to S. L. M. Barlow, Nov. 30, 1861, Barlow MSS, HEH.

398
“and extermination”: CW,
2:240–241.

398
“hope of earth”: CW,
5:537.

399
“bad as all that”:
Henry Villard,
Memoirs
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1904), 1:389–391.

399
“disgraceful termination”:
Hollister,
Colfax,
p. 203.

399
“the traitoress Mrs. Lincoln”:
H. Finch to Zachariah Chandler, Sept. 10, 1862, Chandler MSS, LC.

399
“a new administration”:
George P. Morgan to W. H. Seward, Oct. 22, 1862, Seward MSS, UR.

399
“shape of cabinet ministers”:
Grimes to Lyman Trumbull, Oct. 6, 1862, Trumbull MSS, LC.

400
“corner with the President”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:124, 136; 2:58.

400
their legs on:
George Bemis, Diary, Nov. 15, 1862, Massachusetts Historical Society.

400
“as critics only”:
David Davis to Leonard Swett, Nov. 26, 1862, Davis MSS, ISHL.

400
“United States Navy”:
P. M. Zall, ed.,
Abe Lincoln Laughing
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), p. 78.

401
“over-borne their patriotism”:
Galloway to AL, Sept. 4, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

401
“Head to the War Dept.”:
Montgomery Blair to Francis P. Blair, Jr., Sept. 17, 1862, Blair Family MSS, LC.

401
“the Silurian era”:
Hollister,
Colfax,
p. 200.

401
“Uncle Abe’s nose”:
Ibid.

401
“be immediately accepted”:
W. H. Seward to AL, Dec. 18, 1862, Seward MSS, UR.

401
“What does this mean?”:
Frederick W. Seward,
Seward at Washington
(New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 146.

401
extraordinary caucus:
The fullest account of this caucus meeting is in Francis Fessenden,
Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, 1907), 1:231–236, but there are further details in Browning’s
Diary,
1:596–598.

402
“on my account”:
Seward,
Seward at Washington,
p. 146.

402
outcome of the Republican caucus:
Fessenden,
Fessenden,
1:236–238, offers a full account of these meetings, and Browning’s
Diary,
1:598–599, adds details.

402
“conclusions reached”:
Chase to Chandler, Sept. 20; 1862, Chandler MSS, LC.

403
“a ray of hope”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:600–601.

403
“his usual urbanity”:
Again the fullest account of this conference is in Fessenden,
Fessenden,
1:240–243.

403
read resolutions:
A copy of these resolutions, misdated 1864, is in the Lincoln MSS (#39732–34), LC.

403
“around the Administration”:
Nevins,
War for the Union,
2:355; Hannibal Hamlin to Ellen Hamlin, Dec. 19, 1862, Hamlin MSS, microfilm, Columbia University.

404
“a free talk”:
Bates,
Diary,
p. 269.

404
“sufficient consultation”:
The fullest accounts of this meeting are in Fessenden,
Fessenden,
1:243–248; Bates,
Diary,
pp. 269–270; and Welles,
Diary,
1:196–198.

405
“this subject now”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:201–202, gives a full account of this interview.

405
“end of my bag!”:
Seward,
Seward at Washington,
p. 148.

405
“should not do that”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:604.

405
“He lied”:
Ibid., 1:603.

405
“and their enemies”:
Frederick J. Blue,
Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987), p. 193.

405
“confidence and esteem”:
Nicolay to Therena Bates, Dec. 23,1862, Nicolay MSS, LC.

406
“of Almighty God”: CW,
6:23–26. For Sumner’s role, see Donald,
Sumner,
p. 97.

406
“put it through”:
Hay,
Diary,
pp. 111–112.

406
“anyone could”: Hemdon’s Lincoln,
3:533.

T. Harry Williams,
Lincoln and His Generals
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), offers a spirited account of Lincoln’s unhappy efforts to identify able commanders. In vol. 2 of
Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War
(New York: Macmillan Co., 1949), Kenneth P. Williams provides an expert analysis of Hooker’s campaign. On antiwar movements in the North, Wood Gray,
The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads
(New York: Viking Press, 1942) and Frank L. Klement,
The Copperheads in the Middle West
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), offer conflicting interpretations.

407
the reception line:
Patricia Carley Johnson, ed., “Sensitivity and Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers ... of Frances Adeline [Fanny] Seward” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1963), pp. 586–587;
New York Herald,
Jan. 3, 1863.

407
“going to be done!”:
Frederick W. Seward,
Seward at Washington as Senator and Secretary of State
(New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 151.

408
“and da[u]ntless courage”: CW,
6:39.

408
mounting
“counter-raids”:
CW,
6:108.

408
“so, ranks you”: CW,
6:138–139.

409
“idiotically drunk”:
Murat Halstead to Salmon P. Chase, Apr. 1, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

409
“in our ranks”: CW,
6:71.

409
“particle of responsibility”:
“Extracts from the Journal of Henry J. Raymond,”
Scribner’s Monthly
19 (1879–1880): 424.

409
“not be successful”: CW,
6:15.

409
“very disheartening” inactivity:
William Marvel,
Burnside
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), p. 208.

409
“letting me know”: CW,
6:22.

410
“for that policy”: CW,
6:32.

410
“existing conditions”:
Sandburg, 1:629.

410
“and to myself”: CW,
6:31–32.

410
“face of the enemy”: CW,
6:13.

410
McClellan partisans:
Samuel E. Lyon to Salmon P. Chase, Jan. 6, 1863, Chase MSS.

411
“driving you
”:
CW,
6:46.

411
“you are right”:
Marvel,
Burnside,
p. 215.

411
“sooner the better”:
“Extracts from the Journal of Henry J. Raymond,”
Scribner’s Monthly
19 (1879–1880): 422.

412
“Beware of rashness”: CW,
6:78–79.

412
“in internal commerce”: CW,
5:125–126.

412
caused minor ripples:
Jay Monaghan,
Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with
Foreign Affairs
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1945), offers a spirited account of these and other personalities.