Lincoln (162 page)

495
“tipping him out”:
Benjamin F. Butler,
Butler’s Book
(Boston: A. M. Thayer & Co., 1892), p. 635.

495
Lincoln backed down:
James N. Adams, “Lincoln and Hiram Barney,”
JISHS
50 (Winter 1957): 370–373.

495
“will be questioned”:
Thurlow Weed to David Davis, Mar. 24, 1864, Davis MSS, ISHL.

495
“to say no”: E. D. Morgan to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 27, 1864, Weed MSS, UR.

495
“for my opinions”:
Thurlow Weed to David Davis, Mar. 29, 1864, Davis MSS, ISHL.

496
“disheartened and disappointed”:
John G. Nicolay to AL, Mar. 30, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

496
“Blood and Treasure”:
Glyndon G. Van Deusen,
Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the Lobby
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1947), p. 307.

496
“opposed to Lincoln”:
Francis P. Blair, Jr., to Montgomery Blair, Apr. 26,1864, Blair MSS, LC.

496
“a compromise candidate”: Congressional Globe,
38 Cong, 1 sess. (Apr. 23,1864), p. 1832.

496
“return to the field”: CW,
7:319–320.

496
“be set right”:
Segal,
Conversations,
pp. 310–316.

497
“men and dogs”:
Albert G. Riddle,
Recollections of War Times
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895), p. 266.

497
“or telegrapher”: CW,
6:350.

497
“he has got”:
Williams,
Lincoln and His Generals,
p. 272.

497
“as he pleases”:
Bruce Catton,
Grant Takes Command
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1969), pp. 138–139.

498
“rendering such assistance”:
Ulysses S. Grant,
Personal Memoirs
(New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1886), 2:122.

498
“restraints upon you”: CW,
7:324.

498
“ground of either”: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
ser. 1, vol. 34, p. 19.

498
“lines to Richmond”:
Ibid., vol. 33, p. 394.

499
“of East Tennessee”:
Ibid., p. 395.

499
“superiority in numbers”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 178.

499
“somebody else does”:
Grant,
Memoirs,
2:142–143.

499
in Grant’s campaign:
Ludwell H. Johnson,
Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil
War
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958), offers a devastating account of Banks’s expedition.

500
“sickening with anxiety”:
Strong,
Diary,
p. 442.

500
“no turning back”:
Carl Sandburg,
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939), 3:44.

500
“by favorable news”: CW,
7:333.

500
“to our Maker”: CW,
7:334.

500
14,000 casualties:
On numbers and casualties I have followed the figures given in Thomas L. Livermore,
Numbers & Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861–65
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957), and in Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, eds.,
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
(New York: Century Co., 1884–1888), vol. 4.

500
“ever to end!”:
Allen Thorndike Rice, ed.,
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln
(New York: North American Review, 1888), p. 337.

500
“care, and anxiety”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
pp. 30–31.

501
“takes all summer”:
John Y. Simon, ed.,
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 10:422.

501
“Grant that wins”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 180.

501
“shake him off”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
p. 283.

501
“in our cause”:
Robert S. Harper,
Lincoln and the Press
(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), pp. 290–291. In addition to Harper’s excellent account, see the stories and editorials in the
New York World,
May 24, 1864.

501
“by military force”: CW,
7:348.

502
“head shot off!”:
Segal,
Conversations,
p. 318.

502
“for his re election”:
Clark E. Carr to J. G. Nicolay, Mar. 14, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

502
unanimous for the President:
Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin,
Lincoln and the Patronage
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1943), pp. 245–259, offers a good account of these and other state conventions.

502
“conduct of the war”:
Edward McPherson,
The Political History of the United States of America
During the Great Rebellion
(Washington, D.C.: Solomons & Chapman, 1876), p. 410.

503
Frémont for President:
Full accounts of the convention proceedings appeared in the
New York
World,
May 31 and June 3, 1864, and in many other newspapers.

503
“most magnificent fizzle”:
S. Newton Pettis to AL, May 31, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

503
“controlling no votes”: New York Times,
June 3, 1864.

503
“affair every way”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 184.

503
“four hundred men”:
Nicolay and Hay, 9:40–41. The quotation is from I Samuel 22:2.

503
“won’t swindle me”:
Hay,
Diary,
185.

504
“a very good man”:
Noah Brooks, “Two War-Time Conventions,”
Century Magazine
49 (Mar. 1895): 723.

504
“pap-journalists, expectants”:
Adam Gurowski,
Diary: 1863–64-65
(Washington, D.C.: W. H. &
O.
H. Morrison, 1866), p. 249.

504
“was at Chicago”:
John G. Nicolay to John Hay, June 6, 1864, Nicolay MSS, LC.

504
“decent town meeting”:
James G. Smart, ed.,
A Radical View: The “Agate” Dispatches of Whitelaw
Reid, 1861–1865
(Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1976), 2:164.

504
“slavery in the United States”: Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864
(Minneapolis: Charles W. Johnson, 1893), p. 177. For Lincoln’s role, see James A. Rawley, “Lincoln and Governor Morgan,”
ALQ
6 (Mar. 1951): 296–297.

504
“you one foot”: Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions,
p. 180.

504
“and the Union”:
Ibid., p. 196.

504
“not even interesting”:
David Davis to AL, June 2, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

505
action of the convention: John
G. Nicolay to John Hay, June 5, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

505
amendment abolishing slavery: Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions,
pp. 225–226.

505
“malignants and malcontents”:
Hugh J. Hastings to F. W. Seward, June 8,1864, Seward MSS, UR.

505
“judge for itself”: CW,
7:376.

505
“enthusiasm about it”:
Smart,
A Radical View,
2:170.

506
balanced and inconclusive:
McClure told his story in
Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times
(4th ed.; Philadelphia: Times Publishing Co., 1892), pp. 115–130, and published his evidence in an appendix, “The Nicolay-McClure Controversy,” pp. 457–481. The Hannibal Hamlin MSS (microfilm, Columbia University) contain a large body of material that Hamlin’s grandson collected, and Nicolay defended his case in a supplement to Charles E. Hamlin,
The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin
(Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1899), pp. 591–615. The charge against Sumner is skeptically reviewed in Donald,
Sumner,
pp. 169–173.

506
endorsed his reconstruction program:
Robert L. Morris, “The Lincoln-Johnson Plan for Reconstruction and the Republican Convention of 1864,”
LH
71 (Spring 1969): 33–40.

506
own vice presidential nominee:
This is also the conclusion of James F. Glonek, “Lincoln, Johnson, and the Baltimore Ticket,”
ALQ
6 (Mar. 1951): 255–271, the best review of the evidence. H. Draper Hunt,
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine
(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1969), pp. 176–189, reaches the opposite conclusion.

506
“called the Platform”: CW,
7:380.

507
“‘when crossing streams’”
:
CW,
7:384.

507
word to Chase:
Chase,
Diary,
p. 224.

508
“of open revolt”: CW,
7:412–413.

508
submitted his resignation: CW,
7:414.

508
“I will go”.
Hay,
Diary,
p. 199.