Lincoln (163 page)

508
“the public service”: CW,
7:419.

508
“fitness of selection”:
Chase,
Diary,
pp. 223–224.

508
“alone this time”:
Segal,
Conversations,
pp. 330–331.

508
“than a post”: New York Herald,
July 4,1864.

509
a financial crisis:
Francis Fessenden,
Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1907), 1:315–323.

509
“by your associates”:
Ibid., 1:323.

509
“have such wishes”: CW,
7:423.

509
critical of the President:
Belz,
Reconstructing the Union,
chap. 8, offers an admirable history of the Wade-Davis bill, which I have followed closely. Quotations not otherwise identified are drawn from Belz’s account.

510
“out of place”:
Henry Winter Davis to Samuel F. Du Pont, July 7 or 8,1864, Du Pont MSS, Hagley Museum, Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, Wilmington, Del.

510
“to prevent it”:
Chase,
Diary,
pp. 232–233.

511
“fixed within myself”:
John Hay’s detailed account of Lincoln’s failure to sign the Wade-Davis bill is in Hay,
Diary,
pp. 205–206. The inference that Lincoln was angry is my own.

511
decided to do so: CW,
7:433–434.

512
“I had designed”:
Catton,
Grant Takes Command,
pp. 276–277.

513
“confines of Richmond”:
See the good summary of press opinion in James Ford Rhodes,
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850
(New York: Macmillan Co., 1907), 4:465–466.

513
“of human blood”:
Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

513
“life is dreadful”:
Isaac N. Arnold,
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
(3rd ed.; Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1885), p. 375.

513
“butchering business lately”: CW
, 7:111.

514
“all about me?”:
Louis A. Warren,
Lincoln’s Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one
(New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959), p. 225.

514
“a technical Christian”:
WHH, interview with Mary Todd Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1866, HWC.

514
“and better man”:
Joshua F. Speed,
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to
California
(Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., 1884), pp. 32–33.

514
“given to man”: CW,
7:542.

514
some Higher Power:
William J. Wolf,
The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of
Abraham Lincoln
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1959), is the best study of Lincoln’s religious views. There is some good material in Edgar DeWitt Jones,
Lincoln and the Preachers
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948). Especially valuable is the chapter “God’s Man,” in
Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1955), by J. G. Randall and Richard N. Current.

514
“can claim it”: CW,
7:281–282.

515
“mortal could stay”: CW,
7:535.

515
“in the field”: CW,
7:332, 334, 384.

515
“seventy-five thousand men?”:
Rhodes,
History of the United States
, 4:467.

515
“head of an army”:
Randall,
Mary Lincoln,
p. 253.

515
“[off] right away”:
Catton,
Grant Takes Command,
p. 305.

516
“bloodshed as possible”:
Horace Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
(New York: Century Co., 1897), pp. 216–223. Porter’s unfortunate attempts to recapture African-American dialect have been silently corrected.

516
“strengthened him mentally”:
Welles,
Diary,
2:58.

516
“I will go in”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:673.

516
“in that region”:
Bates,
Diary,
p. 378.

John H. Cramer,
Lincoln Under Enemy Fire
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948), collects most of the evidence on Lincoln’s activities during Early’s raid. Edward C. Kirkland,
The Peacemakers of 1864
(New York: Macmillan Co., 1927), remains the most comprehensive account of the Greeley, Gilmore-Jaquess, and Raymond efforts to secure peace. Joel H. Silbey,
A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860–1868
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977), offers a masterful interpretation of Lincoln’s opponents in 1864. See also Christopher Dell,
Lincoln and the War Democrats: The Grand Erosion of Conservative Tradition
(Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975). T. Harry Williams,
Lincoln and the Radicals
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1941), gives a full account of Radical plans to unhorse Lincoln.

517
“wilted down”:
E. A. Hitchcock to Mary Mann, July 14, 1864, Hitchcock MSS, LC.

518
Seeming “almost crushed’:
Ibid.

518
“not an order”: CW,
7:437.

519
“very conspicuous figure”:
Asa Townsend Abbott, Diary, Sept. 7, 1916, Abbott MSS, LC. See also Abbott’s letter to “Editor Tribune,” June 22 [no year], in the same collection.

519
head knocked off:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 209.

519
“in his hand”:
Cramer,
Lincoln Under Enemy Fire,
p. 64.

519
“standing upon it”:
Ibid., pp. 30–31. The story that Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., shouted “Get down, you fool!” at the President cannot be authenticated. See Frederick C. Hicks, “Lincoln, Wright,’ and Holmes at Fort
Stevens,” JISHS
39 (Sept. 1946): 323–332.

519
“some of them”:
Hay,
Diary,
p. 210.

519
“all escaped”:
Browning,
Diary,
1:676.

519
“the past week”: John
Y. Simon, ed.,
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), 11:230.

520
“military administration”: Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
quoted in Washington
National Intelligencer,
July 20, 1864.

520
“force it”: CW,
7:476.

520
“about your case”:
Hagar J. Weston to AL, July 10, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.

520
“blind impetuosity”:
Bates,
Diary,
p. 393.

520
“to stab him”: CW,
7:462–463.

521
“be more apparant”: CW,
7:483.

521
“poltroons and cowards”
: Welles,
Diary,
2:84.

521
“to the country”: CW,
7:439–440.

521
“anxious for Peace”:
Lincoln had all of his and Greeley’s correspondence on the Niagara peace negotiations printed, and, unless otherwise identified, all quotations in the following paragraphs are from the copy in the Lincoln MSS, LC. The originals of these letters are also in Lincoln’s papers.

521
presidential election:
See the excellent account of the Confederate mission in Larry E. Nelson,
Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864
(University: University of Alabama Press, 1980).

522
only Seward:
Fessenden, who interrupted a conversation between Lincoln and Seward, also knew of the negotiations.

522
“struggled for”: CW,
8:1–2.

523
“we
will
have”:
Edmund Kirke [James R. Gilmore], “Our Visit to Richmond,”
Atlantic Monthly
14 (Sept. 1864): 379.

523
“coming Presidential campaign”: New York Herald,
July 26, 1864.

523
“black race”: New York World,
July 22 and 24, 1864.

524
“earnest men”:
S. P. Chase to William C. Noyes, July 11, 1864, Chase MSS.

524
“carry it out”:
William Lawrence,
Life of Amos A. Lawrence
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1888), p. 195.

524
“Father Abraham”:
Unidentified clipping, enclosed in Thurlow Weed to W. H. Seward, Aug. 10, 1864, Seward MSS, UR.

524
“continuing it”:
James W. Grimes to C. H. Ray, Aug. 3, 1864, Ray MSS, HEH.

524
“make the laws”: New York Tribune,
Aug. 5, 1864.

524
“daze the President”: New York World,
Aug. 9, 1864.

524
“he was exalted”: New York Herald,
Aug. 6, 1864.

524
“befall a man”:
Noah Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln’s Time
(New York: Century Co., 1896), p. 170.

525
“‘if they can’”:
Carpenter,
Six Months,
p. 145.

525
“patriotic men”:
S. P. Chase to George Opdyke, Aug. 19, 1864, Chase MSS.