Lincoln (158 page)

429
“was laughing at”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 179.

429
“a great man”:
Ibid., p. 91.

429
“everything seem wrong”:
Conway,
Autobiography,
1:379.

429
use: African-Americans:
On Lincoln’s decision to raise African-American troops, Dudley Taylor Cornish,
The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865
(New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1956), is authoritative. Except where otherwise identified, all quotations in the following pages come from this book.

430
“time has come”:
Hamlin,
Hannibal Hamlin,
pp. 431–432.

430
“it, if practicable”: CW,
6:56.

430
“of all sorts”: CW,
6:30.

430
citizens of the United States:
For cancellation of contracts to colonize blacks, see
New York Herald,
Mar. 17, 1863, and
CW,
6:41, 178–179.

431
“be employed elsewhere”: CW,
6:56.

431
“rebellion at once”: CW,
6:149–150.

431
often worked creakingly:
The definitive study of Lincoln’s interest in technology and of his efforts to introduce new armaments is Robert V. Bruce,
Lincoln and the Tools of War
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1956), on which I have drawn heavily in the following pages.

431
“to Mr. Capen”: CW,
6:190–191.

431
down land patents:
William O. Stoddard,
Inside the White House in War Times
(New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892), pp. 39–40.

432
“none anywhere else”: Dahlgren, John A. Dahlgren,
p. 390.

433
“as our hospitality”:
Joseph Hooker to AL, Apr. 3, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

433
“intelligent looking woman”:
Charles N. Walker and Rosemary Walker, eds., “Diary of the War of Robt. S. Robertson,”
Old Fort News
28 (Apr.-June 1965): 89–90.

433
billowing behind him:
For Noah Brooks’s spirited, detailed account of Lincoln’s visit to the army, see P. J. Staudenraus, ed.,
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington
(New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1967), pp. 147–164.

433
“inspire much admiration”:
Walker and Walker, “Diary of the War of Robt. S. Robertson,” p. 90.

434
“in sp[l]endid condition
”:
New York Herald,
Apr. 11, 1863.

434
“prepared for the worst”: Chicago Tribune,
June 1, 1863.

434
“he is over-confident”:
Noah Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln’s Time
(New York: Century Co., 1895), p. 52.

434
“to the main object”: CW,
6:164–165.

434
“all of your
men”: Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, eds.,
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
(New York: Century Co., 1890), 3:155.

434
“of intuitive sagacity”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:265.

434
“not a repulse”: New York Herald,
Apr. 19, 1863.

435
“complaints of you”: CW,
6:186.

435
“where is Stoneman?”: CW,
6:197.

435
“to get facts”: Welles, Diary,
1:291.

436
“the country say!”:
Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln’s Time,
pp. 57–58.

Garry Wills,
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), is a brilliant study of the rhetoric and ideas of the Gettysburg Address. There is also useful information in William E. Barton,
Lincoln at Gettysburg: What He Intended to Say; What He Said; What He Was Reported to Have Said; What He Wished He Had Said
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1930), and in Louis A. Warren,
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Declaration: “A New Birth of Freedom”
(Fort Wayne, Ind.: Lincoln National Life Foundation, 1964).

437
“smash the crockery”: New York Herald,
June 4, 1863.

437
“prolong the war”:
E. M. Stanton to L. C. Turner, Sept. 19, 1863, Stanton MSS, LC.

437
“die for it”: Chicago Tribune,
June 11, 1863.

438
“act of the war”:
George Meade,
The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913), 1:372.

438
“with the situation”: Day by Day,
3:183;
Chicago Tribune,
May 11, 1863.

438
“cool, clear and satisfied”:
Virginia Woodbury Fox, Diary, May 7,1863, Levi Woodbury MSS, LC.

438
“army [was] unshaken”: New York Tribune,
May 9, 1863.

438
“General Hooker twice”: New York Herald,
June 1, 1863.

438
“the recent one”: CW,
6:201.

438
“kick the other”: CW,
6:249.

439
“true objective point”: CW,
6:257.

439
“as I may be”: CW,
6:201, 281.

439
“he is an expert”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:364.

439
“General-in-Chief”:
Ibid., 1:320.

439
“Commanding the Army”: CW,
6:628.

440
“as regards myself”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:333.

440
“lose his chance”:
Ibid., 1:344.

440
“try it again”.
Freeman Cleaves,
Meade of Gettysburg
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960), p. 119.

440
“to obey them”: CW,
6:282.

441
“strengthening the government”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:631.

441
“the government overthrown”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:630.

441
“and institutions rest”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:322.

441
“the whole world”:
Robert Garth Scott, ed.,
Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991), p. 216.

441
in a drawer:
Sandburg, 2:308.

442
“and Federal Constitutions”: The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1863
(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1871), 799–800.

442
“into their notions”:
T. J. Barnett to Samuel L. M. Barlow, May 18, 1863, Barlow MSS, HEH.

442
to the subject:
Sandburg, 2:308.

442
“a strong paper”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:323.

443
“his healthful life”: CW,
6:260–269.

443
than a “Despot”:
T.J. Barnett to Samuel L. M. Barlow, June 10, 1863, Barlow MSS, HEH.

443
“the whole land”:
John W. Forney to AL, June 14, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

443
“best state Papers”:
E. D. Morgan to AL, June 15, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

443
“than a victory”:
William A. Hall to AL, June 15, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

443
“in this state”:
Roscoe Conkling to AL, June 16, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

444
“they richly merit”:
David Tod to AL, June 14, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

444
“provided and supported”: CW,
6:300–306.

445
“a family doctor”:
Scott,
Fallen Leaves,
p. 189.

445
“thing from Grant?”: CW,
6:210, 233.

445
“brilliant in the world”: CW,
6:230.

446
“Johnston against Grant”: CW,
6:236.

446 “
’Tad’s’ pistol away”: CW,
6:256, 10:187.

446
“and expressive mouth”:
Silas W. Burt, “Lincoln on His Own Story-Telling,
Century Magazine
73 (Feb. 1907): 501.

446
“with profoundest gratitude”: CW,
6:314.

446
“it is great!”:
Welles,
Diary,
1:364.

446
“whipped them myself”: CW,
6:329.

447
“go to waste”:
Nicolay and Hay, 7:278–279;
CW,
6:318.

447
“because of it”. CW,
6:327–328.

447
“an active pursuit”:
Meade,
Meade,
2:132, 311–312.

447
“a true man”: CW
, 6:341.

447
“didn’t sack Phil-del”: CW,
10:194.

448
“by her fall”: CW,
6:314. See also Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
pp. 324–325; Katherine Helm,
The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928), p. 250.