Our One Common Country (60 page)

287.
“my friend Charles”:
Forman, p. 150.

288.
The attack on Seward: Stahr, pp. 435–37.

288.
“all was silent and sad”:
Welles Diary, vol. 2, p. 290

288.
His wife had stayed:
Keckley, p. 188.

288.
Eliza Blair Lee would all but live in the White House for days:
Smith,
Francis Preston Blair
, p. 371.

288.
“who killed my father?”:
Welles's Diary, vol. 2, p. 290. See Hay,
At Lincoln's Side
, p. 113.

288.
“President Johnson is not disposed to treat treason lightly”:
Welles's Diary, vol. 2, p. 291.

289.
“a baker's dozen”; Johnson wanted to hang many more:
Smith,
Francis Preston Blair,
p. 385.

289.
Informed [Davis] of Lincoln's assassination:
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
vol. 2, p. 683; Foote, vol. 3, p. 998.

289.
He would not despair of the cause:
Rowland, vol. 7, p. 2.

289.
“personal malignity”; the embodiment of malignity:
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
vol. 2, p. 683.

289.
They liked each other immediately:
Fellman, pp. 238–40.

289.
“Then will I share with you the last cracker”: Id.,
p. 182.

289.
he granted Johnston breathtaking terms: Id.,
pp. 239–40; Johnston, pp. 400–06; Foote, vol. 3, pp. 988–96.

290.
“the whole professed object of the war”:
Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, p. 635.

290.
The document Sherman signed; Sherman would later claim:
Sherman, vol. 2, pp. 324–31;
Id.,
pp. 241–42; Randall and Current, pp. 352–53. See Donald, p. 682.

290.
Sherman produced a bottle:
Sherman, vol. 2, pp. 240–41.

290.
When the news arrived in Washington: Id.,
pp. 245–47; Foote, vol. 3, pp. 994–95.

290.
When General Johnston was told: Id.,
p. 996.

290.
Breckinridge's communications with Johnston and Johnston's final surrender:
OR,
vol. 47, ser. 1, part 3, p. 835;
OR,
vol. 47, ser. 1, pt. 3, p. 836; Foote, vol. 3, p. 996; Feis, pp. 120–21.

290.
Only disconnected remnants:
Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, pp. 628–29.

290.
Once the panic had passed:
Rowland, vol. 8, pp. 148, 158, and 189; Ballard, pp. 122–23; Davis,
Long Surrender,
pp. 117–18.

291.
“The calamity which has fallen upon us”:
Gorgas, pp. 183–84.

291.
Davis would later say:
Davis,
Rise and Fall,
vol. 2, pp. 696–97.

291.
“designated by Arabic numerals”:
Campbell,
Recollections,
p. 22.

 

EPILOGUE

293.
On May 10, 1865:
Ballard, pp. 141–43.

293.
He fought them physically: Id.,
pp. 158–59. The shackles were removed after a few days (
Id.
).

293.
Preston Blair asked President Johnson to ease his treatment:
Lathrop, p. 642.

293.
“That would have been an excellent argument”: Charleston
News and Courier,
July 14, 1881.

293.
He was freed on a bond:
Lathrop, p. 644.

293.
“He had not changed his beliefs”:
Varina Davis, vol. 2, p. 817.

293.
Davis's post-imprisonment career: Cooper, pp. 585–89.

293.
Davis's postwar exchange with Hunter on the Peace Commission: Davis, “Peace Commission;” Strode, p. 471; Hunter, “Reply.”

294.
Davis still smarted:
Davis, “Peace Commission,” p. 210; Davis, “Peace Conference,” p. 68; Davis,
Rise and Fall
, vol. 2, pp. 617–18.

294.
“I could not with due self-respect”:
Strode, pp. 526–27.

294.
An Episcopal minister:
Strode, pp. 481–83.

294.
“In the greatest effort of his life”:
Varina Davis, vol. 2, pp. 923–25.

294.
Varina Davis: Joan E. Cashin,
Varina Davis: First Lady of the Confederacy, Varina Davis's Civil War
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006, pp. 298–99); www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Davis_Varina_1826-1906.

295.
Campbell's arrest, letter to Speed, release: Campbell, “Open Letters,” pp. 952 and 954; Campbell, “Papers,” pp. 66–74; Nicolay and Hay, vol. 10, p. 287; Connor, pp. 197–201, Saunders, pp. 187–89.

296.
returned to the Supreme Court; See
the Slaughterhouse Cases: 83 U.S. 36, 44 (1878).

296.
Judge Campbell had “hesitated as if about to speak”:
Strode, pp. 471–72.

296.
Hunter's arrest:
OR,
ser. 1, vol. 46, part 3, p. 1082, and
OR,
ser. 2, vol. 8, pp. 534–36.

296.
Campbell told Hunter:
Hunter, pp. 116–17.

296.
Hunter's daughter died; he was charged with treason: Simms, p. 206.

296.
he wrote to a daughter from his cell:
Hunter,
Hunter,
pp. 123–24.

297.
Seward took Mrs. Hunter; He devoted himself to farming: Id.,
pp. 125–27.

297.
He is buried:
Rowland, vol. 7, p. 273.

297.
Treasurer of Virginia; defeated; his mill burned down; Collector of the Port of Tappahannock; they failed to raise the money:
Hunter,
Hunter,
pp. 125–26, 132–33, and 136; Simms, pp. 209–10 and 215–16.

297.
I almost wept over the letter:
Avary,
Recollections,
p. 141.

297.
On May 11, 1865, federal troops came for him:
Avary,
Id.,
pp. 99–102.

297.
“far from cordial”; empty pleasantries:
Avary,
Id.,
p. 114; Johnston and Browne, p. 487.

298.
General Custer:
New York Times
, May 7, 1865.

298.
“My whole consciousness”:
Avary,
Recollections,
p. 141.

298.
Frightened but well treated: Id.,
pp. 127–530,
passim;
Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, pp. 660–61.

298.
he did not care to go to the expense:
Avary,
Recollections,
p. 220.

298.
with help from Grant and Seward:
Schott, p. 454.

298.
“a victim of the wreck”:
Avary,
Recollections,
p. 241.

298.
Stephens led a reconciliation movement and was sent back to Congress:
Avary,
Recollections,
pp. 546 and 550. See Smith,
Grant,
p. 424.

298.
An immense cloak: Id.,
pp. 550–51.

298.
He served five postwar terms and spoke at the presentation: Id.,
p. 551; Hendrick,
Lincoln's War Cabinet,
p. 365. The painting of Lincoln and his Cabinet is on the cover of Goodwin and among the illustrations in Donald.

298.
stayed on as tenant farmers:
Cleveland, pp. 25 and 235–36; Von Abele, p. 268.

298.
Letters to Stephens from his freed slaves: Stephens Papers, Library of Congress, microfilm reel 57.

299.
“excessive use of the pardoning power”:
Avary,
Recollections,
p. 552.

299.
John L. Stephens: Robert Stephens, pp. 20–21.

299.
William Hatch:
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
www.bioguidecongress.gov
; Whitney H. Shepardson,
Agricultural Education in the United States
(New York: Macmillan, 1929).

299.
Judah Benjamin: Davis,
Rise and Fall
, vol. 2, p. 694; Ballard, p. 154; Davis,
Long Surrender,
p. 274; J. P. Benjamin,
Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892).

300.
Robert E. Lee: Emory,
Lee,
pp. 397 and 417; John D. Wright,
The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 215.

300.
Sarah Pryor: Pryor,
Reminiscences,
pp. 394–96.

300.
desperately poor freed slaves:
Henry Latham,
Black and White, a Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States
(London: MacMillan and Co., 1867), p. 106.

301.
Francis Preston Blair
:
Smith,
Blair Family,
vol. 2, p. 326; Smith,
Francis Preston Blair,
pp. 374–437.

301.
The attempt on his life; the procession and hearse:
Carpenter,
Inner Life,
pp. 291–92; Welles Diary, vol. 2, p. 293.

301.
welcomed a hundred Southern dignitaries:
Stahr, p. 449.

302.
typically served up with dessert:
Van Deusen, p. 492.

302.
to buy Alaska:
Dana,
Lincoln and His Cabinet,
p. 28; Van Deusen, pp. 537–49; Stahr, pp. 482–91.

302.
“the Secretary of State be compelled to live there”: Id.,
p. 490.

302.
to wide acclaim: Id.,
pp. 530–41.

302.
“the only word of regret”:
Hay,
At Lincoln's Side,
p. 129.

302.
“I sent Sheridan”:
Grant, vol. 2, p. 546; see Phillip Sheridan,
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan,
2 vols. (New York: C. L. Webster & Company, 1888), vol. 2, pp. 208–11; Smith,
Grant,
p. 415; Catton,
Grant,
pp. 489–90.

302.
a firing squad:
Van Deusen, p. 515.

302.
Orville Babcock was brought down:
Julia Grant, pp. 186 and 199 n. 16; Perret, pp. 441–42.

303.
Julia Grant: Julia Grant, pp. 17–26; www.firstladies.org.

303.
Andrew Johnson was impeached:
Stahr, pp. 479–80, 495–97, and 507–15.

303.
knowing that Stanton was dying:
Flower, pp. 406–07; Thomas and Hyman, pp. 634–38.

303.
jumping three grades:
Temple, p. 18; Bates, p. 403.

303.
“imitated Stanton's arrogance”:
Thomas and Hyman, p. 574.

304.
Stanton got Eckert a job at Western Union:
Bates, p. 408.

304.
Horace Greeley: Mitchell Snay,
Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in ­Nineteenth-Century America
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011), pp. 174–78.

304.
hemlock and strychnine:
Von Abele, p. 284.

304.
Sherman: B. H. Liddell Hart,
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1993).

305.
Thaddeus Stevens: See Brodie.

305.
Sunset Cox: Davis Lindsey,
Sunset Cox, Irrepressive Democrat
(Detroit: Wave State University Press, 1959);
New York World,
October 2, 1872;
Cincinatti Enquirer,
May 7, 1883.

305.
Robert Todd Lincoln: John S. Goff,
Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in His Own Right
(Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969), pp. 6, 260, and 262.

306.
distinction that “could not be made too conspicuous”:
Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith, ed.,
Autobiography of Mark Twain
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010) vol. 1, p. 222.

306.
John Hay's dream: Hay Diary, p. 369 n. 321.

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