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

360
“the whole country”: CW,
5:279.

360
“‘
I will get off
”: Sandburg, 1:602.

360
“the army safely?”: CW,
5:310.

360
“magnitude of the crisis”:
McClellan,
Civil War Papers,
p. 348.

361
“General-in-Chief”: CW,
5:312–313.

361
“General in the country”: CW,
5:284.

361
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.

361
his tacit approval:
Kenneth P. Williams,
Lincoln Finds a General
(New York: Macmillan Co., 1949), 1:252–254.

362
“no wise omit this”: CW,
5:318–319.

362
“lived in vain!”:
Francis Fisher Browne,
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
(Chicago: Browne & Howell Co., 1913), 2:423.

363
“must be done”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:70–71.

363
were “forever free”: CW,
5:222.

363
“without consulting me”: CW,
5:219.

363
“subdue the enemy”: CW,
5:222, 421.

363
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.

364
“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.

364
could enforce it:
Louis M. Starr,
Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954), p. 125.

364
“lose the game!”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
pp. 20–22.

364
“the best policy”: CW,
5:329–330.

365
“within a state”: CW,
5:329.

365
“it may exist”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:555.

365
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.

366
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.

366
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.

366
“after a victory”:
George Bemis, Diary, Nov. 15, 1862, Massachusetts Historical Society.

366
“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.

367
“necessaries of life”: Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War
(1917), 2:41–42.

367
“injury than good”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:555.

367
“join the rebellion”:
Frederic Bancroft, ed.,
Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913), 1:209.

367
“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.

367
“good of mankind”: CW,
5:370–375.

367
“North and South”:
“The National Controversy,”
Pacific Appeal,
Sept. 6, 1862.

368
“homes in America!”:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 112.

368
“benefit of the enslaved”:
Garnet, in
Pacific Appeal,
Oct. 11, 1862.

368
“save the Union”: CW,
5:388–389.

369
“to stand on”:
Weed to Seward, Aug. 23, 1862; Ashmun to AL, Aug. 25, 1862, both in Lincoln MSS, LC.

369
“to that music”:
Howe to AL, Aug. 25, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

369
“progress of events”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
p. 22.

369
“alone prevents it”:
McClellan,
Civil War Papers,
p. 374.

369
“without reinforcements”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:563–564.

370
“do what I wish”:
Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton,
pp. 216–217.

370
“these people now”:
Hay,
Diary,
pp. 45–46.

371
“the contest proceeds”: CW,
5:403–404.

371
“unknown to us”: CW
, 5:478.

371
“army with him”:
Hay,
Diary,
45–47; Welles,
Diary,
1:113.

372
“called me to it”:
McClellan,
Civil War Papers,
p. 428.

372
“the [War] Department”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:97–98.

372
“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.

372
“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.

372
“Harrisburg and Philadelphia”: CW,
5:501.

372
“will do anything”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:116.

373
“side of the mountains”: CW,
5:417.

373
“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.

373
“all the cabinet”:
Garrett Davis to AL, Sept. 7, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

373
“fatal concessions”: Chase, Diary,
p. 136.

373
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.

374
“as the Republicans”:
Browning to AL, Sept. 10, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC.

374
“against the comet!”: CW,
5:420.

374
“I will do it!”: Ibid.

374
“cause of emancipation”.
Welles,
Diary,
1:143.

374
had sent him:
“Artemus Ward” was the pen name of Charles Farrar Browne. Lincoln read from the recently published
Artemus Ward: His Book
(1862).

375
“other minor matter”:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 150.

375
“feelings of... the people”:
Adam Gurowski,
Diary, from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862
(Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1862), p. 278.

375
“forever free”: CW,
5:433–436.

375
“ought to take”:
Chase,
Diary,
pp. 150–151.

375
“all my heart”:
Ibid.

376
“weight with him”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:144.

376
“with difficulties”: CW,
5:438.

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