Bloody Crimes (59 page)

NOTES

1: “FLITTING SHADOWS”

5
“A perfect Sunday”
Constance Cary Harrison,
Recollections Grave and Gay
(New York: Scribner’s, 1911), 207.

5
“On Sunday, the 2d of April”
Jefferson Davis,
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
(New York: D. Appleton, 1881), 2:668. Hereafter cited as
Rise and Fall.

6
“I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position”
Robert E. Lee,
The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee,
ed. Clifford Dowdey (New York: Da Capo Press), 924.

7
“I happened to sit in the rear”
Harrison,
Recollections Grave and Gay,
207.

7
“the people of Richmond had been too long”
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
2:667. 7
“Before dismissing the congregation”
Harrison,
Recollections Grave and Gay,
207.

7
“On the sidewalk outside the church”
Harrison,
Recollections Grave and Gay,
207-8.

8
“About 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 2d, a strange agitation”
Clement Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond: The Evacuation,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
eds. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Buel (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1956), 4:725.

8
“I went to my office and assembled the heads”
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
2:667.

9
“My own papers”
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
2:667.

9
“By this time the report that Richmond was to be evacuated”
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
2:667.

10
“He said for the future his headquarters must be in the field”
Varina Howell Davis,
Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir by His Wife
(New York: Belford, 1890), 2:575.

Hereafter cited as
A Memoir.
10
“Very averse to flight”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:575. 10
“I have confidence in your capacity”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir, 2
:575. 10
“If I live”
Varina Davia,
A Memoir, 2
:575.

10
“I do not expect to survive the destruction of constitutional liberty”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:575.

11
“All women like bric-a-brac”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:576.

11
“They may be exposed to inconvenience or outrage”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:576.

11
“He showed me how to load, aim, and fire”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:576.

11
“Col. Brown will please order these cartridges”
Lynda Lasswell Crist, ed.,
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971-2008), 11:481. Hereafter cited as
Papers.

12
“You can at least, if reduced to the last extremity”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:576.

12
“Leaving the house as it was, and taking only our clothing”
Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.

12
“You cannot remove anything in the shape of food”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir,
2:576.

12
“Mr. Davis almost gave way”
Varina Davis,
A Memoir, 2
:577.

13
“The movement of Gen. Grant to Dinwiddie”
Robert E. Lee,
Lee’s Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-1865,
ed. Douglas Southall Freeman (1915; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1957), 358-60.

14
“The question is often asked of me”
Crist,
Papers,
11:493.

14
“My best hope was that Sherman while his army was worn”
Crist,
Papers,
11:489.

15
“Arrived here safely very kindly treated”
Crist,
Papers,
11:491.

16
“The progress of our arms”
Abraham Lincoln,
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,
ed. Roy P. Basler (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1952), 8:332-33. Hereafter cited as
Collected Works.

17
“During this interview I inquired of the President”
William Tecumseh Sherman,
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
(New York: Appleton, 1887), 2:326.

18
“I hope you will stay to see it out”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:378.

20
“Dispatches frequently coming in”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:382.

20
“All that Sabbath day the trains came and went”
Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond,” 725.

22
“To move to-night will involve the loss of many valuables
” Crist,
Papers,
11:499.

22
“Your telegram recd. I think it will be necessary”
Lee,
Lee’s Dispatches,
375.

22
“Mrs. Lincoln: At 4:30 p.m. to-day General Grant telegraphs”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:383

23
“I think it absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position”
Lee,
Wartime Papers,
925.

23
“It is absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position”
Lee,
Wartime Papers,
926.

24
“Allow me to tender you, and all with you”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:383.

24
“The furniture in the executive mansion it would be well to pack”
Crist,
Papers,
11:500.

25
“This was the saddest trip I had ever made”
Francis Richard Lubbock,
Six Decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in War Time, 1861-1863,
ed. Cadwell Walton Raines (Austin: B. C. Jones, 1900), 563.

25
“Richmond would be isolated, and it could not have been defended”
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
2:668.

26
“the rabble who stood ready to plunder”
Stephen R. Mallory, “Last Days of the Confederate Government,”
McClure’s Magazine
26, no. 2 (Dec. 1900), 102.

27
“While waiting at the depot”
William Harwar Parker,
Recollections of a Naval Officer, 1841-1865,
rev. ed., ed. Craig L. Symonds (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883; Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985), 375. Citations are to the Naval Institute Press edition.

27
“Not only inside, but on top”
Parker,
Recollections,
374-75.

28
“submit to the invading army” J
ohn H. Reagan,
Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War,
ed. Walter Flavius McCaleb (New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1906), 197.

28
“left but small opportunity”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
198.

28
“Silence reigned over the fugitives”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 104.

28
“The terrible reverses”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 104.

29
“It was near midnight”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
198.

29
“another soul to enter”
Parker,
Recollections,
375.

29
“The scenes at the depot were a harbinger”
Parker,
Recollections,
376.

30
“By nightfall all the flitting shadows”
Harrison,
Recollections,
208.

30
“ominous groups of ruffians”
Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond,” 725.

30
“About 2 o’clock on the morning”
Thomas Thatcher Graves, “The Fall of Richmond: The Occupation,” in
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,
eds. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Buel, 4:726.

30
“I saw a government on wheels” J
ohn S. Wise,
The End of an Era
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899), 415.

31
“By daylight, on the 3d”
Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726.

32
“As we neared the city the fires”
Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726-27.

32
“I looked over at the President’s house”
Harrison,
Recollections,
214.

32
“A young woman has just passed”
Harrison,
Recollections,
218.

33
“His hope and good humor”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 104.

33
“adroit economy”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

33
“They were quiet”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

33
“An earnest, enthusiastic, big-hearted man”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

33
“As the morning advanced”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

34
“This morning Gen. Grant reports”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:384.

35
“The news spread like wildfire through Washington”
Noah Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln’s Time
(New York: The Century Co., 1895; New York: Georgia University Press, 1971), 218. Citations are to the Georgia University Press edition.

36
“I congratulate you”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:384.

37
“Heads of departments”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 103.

38
“Yours received. Thanks for your caution”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
8:385.

39
“The day of jubilee did not end”
Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln’s Time,
221.

39
“The ending of the first day of occupation”
Harrison,
Recollections,
214.

40
“more or less”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

41
“April 4 and the succeeding four days”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

41
“Some asserted, upon the faith”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.

41
“Thus were passed five days”
Mallory, “Last Days,” 106.

2: “IN THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH”

42
“Thank God that I have lived”
David Dixon Porter,
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885), 294.

42
“Here we were in a solitary boat”
Porter,
Incidents,
294.

44
“Admiral, this brings to mind”
Porter,
Incidents,
294.

44
“The street along the river-front”
Porter,
Incidents,
295.

44
“There was a small house”
Porter,
Incidents,
295.

45
“Don’t kneel to me”
Porter,
Incidents,
295.

45
“Oh, all ye people clap”
Porter,
Incidents,
296.

45
“The crowd immediately became”
Porter,
Incidents,
297.

46
“My poor friends, you are free”
Porter,
Incidents,
298.

46
“We will pull it down!”
Porter,
Incidents,
298.

47
“Is it far”
Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726.

47
“At the Davis House”
Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726.

47
“look of unutterable weariness”
Michael Burlingame,
Abraham Lincoln: A Life
(Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 2:790.

51
“Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
1:1.

54
“If slavery is not wrong”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
7:282.

57
“Ann M. Rutledge is”
The copy of
Kirkham’s Grammar
inscribed by Lincoln is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

62
“At length he asked me”
Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 728.