by Larry Tagg
269 “I beg that you will reconsider”: Letter of April 5, 1862, ibid., p. 238-9.
269 “I know of no instance”: Stephen W. Sears, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1992), p. 40.
269 “had now only too good reason”: McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 242.
269 “too deeply committed” and “a fatal error”: Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 88-90.
269 “the stupidity” and “a set of heartless villains”: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 40.
269 “Don’t worry about the wretches”: Letter of April 11, 1862, McClellan, Papers, p. 235.
269 “[I]t was whispered”: Wheeler, p. 140.
270 “It is impossible to exaggerate”: August 9, 1862, Harper’s Weekly.
270 “a great outrage”: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 131.
270 “You now have over one hundred thousand troops”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 182.
270 “The Presdt very coolly telegraphed me”: Letter of April 8, 1862, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 234.
271 “If you can accomplish your object”: Letter of April 12, 1862, from Francis P. Blair, ibid., p. 240.
272 “The End at Hand”: Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 154.
272: The New York Herald and New York Tribune predictions: Gary W. Gallagher, The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula & the Seven Days (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000), p. 9.
272 “within a month or two”: May 10, 1862, Brooklyn Eagle.
272 “No General of modern times”: April 12, 1862, Harper’s Weekly.
273 “in the present divided condition”: Allan Nevins, The War for the Union: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 (NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons), p. 124.
273 “it will prove a great relief”: Sears, To the Gates of Richmond, p. 97.
273 “This is a crushing blow”: Official Records, p. I: 12: III: 220.
275 “Heaven save a country”: Letter of May 25, 1862, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 275.
275 “a precious lot of fools”: Letter of May 26, 1862, to his wife, ibid., p. 278.
275 “The object of enemy’s movement”: Telegram of May 25, 1862, to Lincoln, ibid., p. 276.
275 “I dare not risk this Army”: Letter of June 23, 1862, to S.L.M. Barlow, ibid., p. 306.
275 “I know that a few thousand men”: Telegram of June 28, 1862, to Stanton, ibid., p. 323.
276 “I need 50,000 more men’’: Official Records, p. I: 11: III: 281
276 “It seems unreasonable”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 355-6
277 “When the Peninsula campaign terminated”: Carpenter, p. 219.
277 “thin and haggard”: Julian, p. 218.
277 “On Saturday”: Whitney, p. 491.
277 “[Lincoln] was in his Library”: Entry of July 15, 1862, Browning, p. II: 559-560
278: Panic on Wall Street: Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 168-9.
278 “the gloomiest”: Entry for July 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 235.
Page 278 “stands higher this moment”: Letter of July 10, Alexander Webb to his father, from Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 231.
278 “successive, hasty, & contradictory”: Thomas and Hyman, p. 212.
278 “crime against the nation”: July 3, 1862, New York Tribune, from Sears, The Young Napoleon, p. 230.
278 “Public sentiment is deep and bitter”: Letter of July 26, 1862, J.H. Geiger to Salmon Chase, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 73.
278 “inspiring the people”: Letter, August 6, 1862, Israel Holmes to Sen. J. R. Doolittle, ibid.
278 “Unless Richmond is occupied”: Letter of August 26, 1862, George B. Loring to Ben Butler, ibid., p. 74.
278 “Prevailing color of people’s talk”: Page Smith, Trial by Fire: A People’s History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, (NY: Penguin, 1990), p. 187.
278 “Lincoln is doing twice as much”: Letter of June 29, 1862, Wendell Phillips to Charles Sumner, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 67.
279 “With regard to the President”: Dicey, p. 90-1.
279 “The treasure”: July 16, 1862, Brooklyn Eagle.
280 Harrison’s Landing letter: McClellan, Papers, p. 344-5.
280 “I do not know”: Letter of July 10, 1862, to his wife, ibid., p. 348.
280 “the stupidity and wickedness”: Letter of July 15, 1862, to S.L.M. Barlow, ibid., p. 361.
281 “[The President and I] never conversed”: Letter of July 27, 1862, to his wife, ibid., p. 374.
282 “Things had gone on”: Carpenter, p. 20-21.
282 “We must free the slaves”: Welles, p. I:70.
Part Three: Lincoln’s Proclamation
Chapter 22: Lincoln, Race, and the North
285 “The prejudice of race”: Tocqueville, Alexis de, p. I:343.
286 “the very spirit”: Smith, The Nation Comes of Age, p. 655.
286 “In my judgment”: May 3, 1862, Harper’s Weekly.
286 “not slaves indeed”: Smith, The Nation Comes of Age, p. 640.
286 “While the cruel slave-driver”: Smith, Trial by Fire, p. 249.
287 “the position of the people”: Rawley, p. 72.
287 “At the hotels”: Dicey, p. 11.
287 “I never by any chance”: ibid., p. 46.
287 “almost without education”: Ayers, p. 53.
287 “objects of marked abuse”: Smith, Trial by Fire, p. 248.
287 “What have the colored people done”: ibid.
287 “Colored persons, no matter how well dressed”: ibid., p. 241.
288 “visible admixture of Negro blood”: Rawley, p. 72.
288 “There is but one thing, sir, that we want here”: Dicey, p. 47-8.
288 “Our people hate the Negro”: Rawley, p. 72.
288 “if we [blacks] sent our children to school”: ibid., p. 73.
288 “There are laws”: August 5, 1862, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
289 “I plead the cause”: Commager, p. 90.
Page 289 “the sons of toil”: Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (NY: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 267.
289 “the real white man’s party”: ibid., p. 265.
289 “foreign and feeble”: ibid., p. 295.
289 Seward believed black people in the North would die out: Dicey, p. 99-100.
289 “They are God’s poor”: Foner, p. 300.
289 “Missouri for white men”: ibid., p. 270.
289 “cooked by Niggers”: Trefousse, The Radical Republicans, p. 31.
289 “As a class, the Blacks are indolent”: Foner, p. 297.
289 “It is the real evil of the negro race”: ibid., p. 298.
289 “It [does not] necessarily follow”: ibid., p. 265.
289 “So far as the principles”: Smith, The Nation Comes of Age, p. 1169-70.
290 “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong”: Lincoln, Works, p. VII:281.
290 “a universal feeling”: ibid., p. II:256.
290 “I am not, nor ever have been in favor”: ibid., p. III:145-6.
290 “He declares his opposition”: November 8, 1860, New York Times.
291 “to result in the entire abolition” and “daily correspondence”: Entry for May 7, 1861, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 19.
291 “proving that popular government is not an absurdity”: ibid.
291 “no purpose, directly or indirectly”: Lincoln, Works, p. IV: 263.
291 “would bring sure and irretrievable defeat” and “Two-thirds of the army”: September 11, 1861, Valley Spirit, from Ayers, p. 216.
291 “turn the world topsy turvey”: December 4, 1861, Valley Spirit, ibid.
291 “that if this war was to be converted”: December 12, 1861, The Crisis.
291 “gone to the rescue” and “The key of the slave’s chain”: January 31, 1862, The Liberator, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 3
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292 “There has never been an Administration”: Paludan, p. 124.
292 “Our nation is on the brink” and “Mr. Lincoln, for god’s sake”: Letter of February 9, 1862, from Joseph Medill, Lincoln, Papers.
292 “It is certainly the wish”: Foner, p. 269.
292 “The idea of liberating the slaves ”: ibid., p. 270.
292 “should the abolitionists”: November 7, 1861, The Crisis.
293 “Adopt these measures”: March 25, 1862, Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 2ndsession, p. 1333.
293 “I utterly spit at it”: Smith, Trial by Fire, p. 257
293 “Victories or defeats amount to but little”: March 19, 1862, The Crisis.
293 “‘decoy duck’ or a ‘red herring’”: Ralph Korngold, Two Friends of Man: The Story of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips and Their Relationship with Abraham Lincoln (Boston: Little, Brown, 1950), p. 292.
293 “cowardly and criminal avoidance”: Mayer, p. 533.
293 “trick” and “small crumbs”: Entry for February 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 159.
293 “the most diluted”: Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 32.
294 “Do you know”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 577.
294 “[Sumner’s] severest trial”: ibid., p. I: 578.
294 “He told me”: Entry of April 14, 1862, Browning, p. I: 541.
294 “the refusal on the part of the President”: April 23, 1862, Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 2nd session, p. 1801.
294 “Mr. Lincoln is forced out”: Entry of April, 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 192-3.
Page 295 “Many an old ‘Aunty’ in Washington”: April 16, 1862, Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
295 “Please let me have my own way”: Korngold, p. 294.
295 “The persons in these three States”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 222.
295 “altogether void”: ibid.
295 “Be sure that Lincoln”: Letter of May 7, 1862, Gurowski to John A. Andrew, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 73.
295 “an unavoidable evil, an original sin”: Fischer, p. 100.
295 “Of course Mr. Lincoln overrules”: Entry of May 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 210.
295 “Our people feel disheartened”: Letter of May 31, 1862, James C. Conkling to Trumbull, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 67.
295 “We shuffle and trifle on”: Letter of April 28, 1862, Horace Greeley to William P. Cutler, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 159.
295 “President Lincoln with a senile lick-spittle haste”: Korngold, p. 295.
296 “feel it a heavy draft on their patriotism”: ibid.
296 Lincoln’s reply to a group of Quakers: Lincoln, Works, p, V: 278-9.
296 “too big a lick”: Louis Morris Starr, Bohemian Brigade: Civil War News men in Action (NY: Knopf, 1954), p. 126.
296 “I would do it”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 566.
297 “The change it contemplates”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 222.
297 “friction and abrasion”: ibid., p. V: 318-19.
297 “nothing less than deportation”: Korngold, p. 296.
298 “amid the sneers and laughter of the abolitionists”: July 18, 1862, New York Herald, from Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 229.
298 “inexpressibly provoking”: Rice, p. 237-8.
298 “No one at a distance”: Julian, p. 220.
299 “Mr. Lincoln makes a new effort”: Entry for July 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 243.
299 “the President hangs back” Letter of July 28, 1862, “Enquirer” to Editor New York Tribune, Lincoln, Papers.
299 “I am receiving daily”: Letter of July 30, 1862, from Sidney Howard Gay, Lincoln, Papers.
299 “Oh God, how I feel”: Letter of August 3, 1862, from John Sherman, Salmon P. Chase, The Correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Ed. John Niven (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1996), p. III:241.
299 “We are in a deplorable condition”: Letter of August 5, 1862, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 68.
299 “Anything more violent”: Korngold, p. 302.
299 “I think the present purpose”: ibid., p. 300-302.
300 August 14, 1862 address on colonization to blacks: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 371-2.
301 “In this address”: Rawley, p. 83.
301 “miserable tool of traitors and rebels”: August 1862, Douglass’ Monthly, from Fehrenbacher, “The Anti-Lincoln Tradition,” p. 13.
301 “evident that he”: September 6, 1862, Pacific Appeal, from Donald, Lincoln, p. 368.
301 “humiliating … impertinent”: Korngold, p. 538-9.
301 “How much better”: Entry for August 15, 1862, Chase, Diaries, p. 112.
301 “The Prayer of Twenty Millions”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 389
303 “As to the policy I ‘seem to be pursuing’”: ibid.
304 “the president is not with us”: Mahood, p. 106.
Page 304 “We are sold out”: Letter of September 12, 1862, John Jay to Charles Sumner, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesmen, p. 67.
304 “as near lunacy”: Letter of September 9, 1862, William Lloyd Garrison to Oliver Johnson, ibid., p. 76.
304 “The truth”: Entry for September 12, 1862, Chase, Diaries, p. 136.
304 “I fear that the President”: Letter of September 12, 1862, from S. G. Arnold, ibid., p. 67.
304 Lincoln’s description of the July 22 Cabinet meeting: Carpenter, p. 21-22.
Chapter 23: Lincoln Awaits a Victory
305 “a man I know by experience”: Letter of July 20, 1862, to his wife, McClellan, Papers, p. 368
306 “I know that the rascals will get rid of me”: Letter of July 30, 1862, to S.L.M. Barlow, ibid., p. 376-7
306 “disastrous” and “a fatal blow”: Letter of August 4, 1862, to Henry Halleck, ibid., p. 383
306 McClellan persuaded not to resign: T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 138
306 “with all possible promptness”: Telegram of August 5, 1862, Halleck to McClellan, Official Records, p. I: 11: I: 82.
306 “I beg of you, general”: Letter of August 7, 1862, Halleck to McClellan, McClellan’s Own Story, p. 475
307 “the greatest battle of the century”: Entry of September 1, 1862, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 46
307 “nothing less than this capital”: Goodwin, p. 474
307 “To leave Pope to get out of his scrape”: August 29, 1862, to Abraham Lincoln, McClellan, Papers, p. 416
308: McClellan would send his wife’s silver off: Letter of August 31, 1862, to his wife, ibid., p. 423-4
308 Rumors of soldiers letting themselves be captured: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 538
308 “The nation is rapidly sinking”: Entry of September 7, 1862, Strong, p. III: 253
308 “Disgust with our present government” and “Nobody believes in him”: Entry of September 13, 1862, ibid., p. III: 256
308 “central imbecility” and “Certainly neither Mr. Lincoln”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. I: 555
308 “Many of our best citizens”: Letter of September 13, 1862, H.C. Bowen to Salmon Chase, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 68
308 “like throwing water on a duck’s back”: Entry of August 31, 1862, Welles, p. I:102
308 “unwilling to be accessory”: Goodwin, p. 476
309 “he knew of no obligation he was under to the President”: Entry of August 31, 1862, Welles, p. 98
309 “in a suppressed voice”: Entry of September 2, 1862, ibid., p. 104
309 “the slows,” McClellan knows this whole ground,” “can be trusted,” and “no better organizer”: ibid. , p. 105
309 “could not but feel”: Entry of September, 2, 1862, Chase, Diaries, p. 119
309 “it distressed him exceedingly”: ibid.
309 “there was a more disturbed and desponding feeling”: Entry of September 2, 1862, Welles, p. 10
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310 “The bitterness of Stanton”: Tap, p. 131
Page 310 “seemed wrung by the bitterest anguish”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 404
310 “unpardonable”: Entry of September 5, 1862, Hay, Lincoln and the Civil War, p. 47
310 “The will of God prevails”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 403-4
310 “Are mutinous traitorous Generals”: Letter of September 13, 1862, Zachary Chandler to Salmon Chase, from Tap, p. 134
310 “Your president is as unstable as water”: Letter of September 10, 1862, Zachary Chandler to Lyman Trumbull, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 179
310 “to save the Prest.”: Letter of September 6, 1862, John A. Andrew to Adam Gurowski, from Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 240
311 “a vast conspiracy”: Randall, Springfield to Gettysburg, p. II: 230-231
311 “to request Lincoln to resign”: ibid., p. II: 231
311 “What does it mean”: Letter of September 15, 1862, Francis Gillette to Charles Sumner, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 68
311 “[S]hall the country crumble”: Letter of September 10, 1862, from John Sherman, Chase, Correspondence, p. 264
311 “The Union cause is in a dismal plight”: ibid., p. 265
311 “trembling on the brink”: Letter of September 15, 1862, Francis Gillette to Charles Sumner, from Randall, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman, p. 74
311 “as soon as it shall be driven out”: Goodwin, p. 481
Chapter 24: Emancipation Promised
312 “I know very well”: Chase, Diaries, p. 150-151.
313 “I have got you together”: ibid., p. 150.
313 “That on [January 1, 1863], all persons held as slaves”: Lincoln, Works, p. V: 434.
314 “The proclamation is written”: Entry for September 23, 1862, Gurowski, Diary, 1861-1862, p. 278.
314 “[Its words] kindled no enthusiasm” “Emancipation Proclamation: Domestic Reaction,” www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org
314 “ordinary summonses”: Adam Gopnik, “Angels and Ages,” New Yorker (May 28, 2007), p. 33.
314 “a poor document”: Nevins, 1862-1863, p. 234.
314 “an arbitrary and despotic measure”: Hendrick, p. 359.
315 “I will resign”: ibid., p. 356.
315 “It is mournful”: David Donald, ‘We Are Lincoln Men” (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003), p. 164.
315 “It is the beginning of the end”: Brayton Harris, p. 201.
