The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln

by Larry Tagg

  451 “worn down”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 113.

  451 “Can you not visit”: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 367.

  451 “The President has gone to the front”: Entry for March 23, 1865, from Welles, p. II: 264.

  452 “Glory!!! Hail Columbia!!!”: Washington Star, from Leech, p. 378.

  452 “In a moment of time”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 219.

  453 Descriptions of the celebrations in Washington, D.C.: Brooks, Lincoln Observed, p. 180; Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 222; Leech, p. 379; Jay Winik, April 1865: The Month That Saved America (NY: Harper Collins, 2001), p. 213-14.

  454 “dribble it all out”: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 393.

  Page 454 “bribe of unconditional forgiveness”: April 11, 1865, New York Tribune, from Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 371.

  454 “Those who are ready to fight”: Dispatch of April 12, 1865, Brooks, Lincoln Observed, p. 185.

  454 “There was something terrible”: Brooks, Washington, D.C., p. 226.

  455 “The speech was longer”: ibid.

  455 “Concede that the new government of Louisiana”: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 404.

  455 “it was a silent, intent, perhaps surprised multitude”: Brooks, Washington, D. C., p. 227.

  455 “fell dead”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 224.

  455 “The speech was not in keeping”: Sumner, Memoirs, p. 236.

  455 “Sumner was thoughtful and sad”: ibid.

  455 “The President’s speech”: ibid.

  456 “The eggs of crocodiles”: From Sumner’s tribute to Senator Collamer, December 14, 1865, ibid.

  456 “Magnanimity is the great word”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 225.

  456 “wicked and blasphemous”: Letter of April 13, 1865, R.F. Fuller to Charles Sumner, ibid., p. IV: 225.

  456 “Mr. Lincoln gropes”: April 13, 1865, New York World, Mitgang, p. 456.

  456 “the more radical of the Republicans”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 256-7.

  456 “The radicals are as virulent and bitter as ever”: ibid., p. IV: 256.

  456 “I would myself prefer”: Lincoln, Works, p. VIII: 403.

  457 “That means nigger citizenship”: Hanchett, p. 37.

  457 “Not all of these letters”: Stoddard, p. 168.

  457 “If Abraham Lincoln should be reelected”: Reprinted in November 5, 1864, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, from Randall and Current, p. 368-9.

  457 “Assassination is not an American practice”: Letter of July 15, 1862, Seward to John Bigelow, from Bancroft, p. II: 418.

  457 “I think you peril too much”: Rice, p. 252.

  458 “had himself so sane a mind”: Nicolay, John G., Abraham Lincoln (NY: The Century Co., 1902), p. 533.

  458 “He hated being on his guard”: William H. Crook, Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, ed. Margarita Spalding Gerry, (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1910), p. 1-4.

  458 “It is important”: Winik, p. 252.

  458 “I could not help saying”: Brooks, Washington D.C., p. 44.

  458 “with a sharp eye and ear open”: Stoddard, p. 168.

  458 “the utterly unprotected condition”: Carpenter, p. 65.

  458 “It would never do”: ibid.

  459 “worried until he got rid of it”: ibid., p. 64.

  459 “he and Mrs. Lincoln couldn’t hear”: ibid., p. 67.

  459 “He said it seemed to him”: Letter of December 8, 1866, Joseph Gillespie to William Herndon, from Randall & Current, p. 370.

  459 “Tonight”: Lamon, Recollections, p. 275.

  460 Ragged bands roaming the streets: Leech, p. 357.

  460 “Washington was a little delirious”: Crook, p. 65.

  460 “visible relief and content”: Seward, p. 254.

  460 “grander, graver”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 591.

  460 “He was unusually cheerful”: Dispatch of April 16, 1865, Brooks, Lincoln Observed, p.

  Page 461 “No living man”: May 28, 1864, New York Times, from Waugh, p. 261.

  461 “If Johnson pursues the same course”: David Chesebrough, No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1994), p. xviii.

  462 “It was treason”: ibid., p. 42.

  462 “This murder, this oozing blood”: Entry of April 15, 1865, Gurowski, Diary, 1863-1865, p. 398-9.

  462 “Mr. Lincoln is to be hereafter regarded as a saint”: Letter of April 16, 1865, from James Grimes to his wife, from William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 228.

  462 “It has made it impossible”: Thomas R. Turner, “The Creation of an American Myth,” Charles M. Hubbard, ed., Lincoln and his Contemporaries (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999), p. 160.

  462 “While everybody was shocked”: Julian, p. 255.

  462 “I believe that the Almighty”: Letter of April 23, 1865, Zachary Chandler to his wife, from Trefousse, Benjamin Franklin Wade, p. 248.

  462 “more than likely”: Roy P. Basler, The Lincoln Legend (NY: Octagon Books, 1969), p. 74.

  462 “God has graciously withheld”: Speech of April 23, 1865, Wendell Phillips and Louis Filler, Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom (NY: Hill and Wang, 1965), p. 187.

  463 “The eyes and upper part of the cheeks”: Lloyd Lewis, Myths After Lincoln (NY: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1929), p. 107.

  463 “planned and set on foot”: Thomas and Hyman, p. 400.

  463 “unscrupulous hand”: Leech, p. 405.

  464 “We will hang Jeff Davis!”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 339.

  464 “New York never before saw such a day”: ibid.

  465 “little finger was stronger than Lincoln’s loins”: ibid.

  465 “a simple, truthful, noble soul”: Waldo W. Braden, Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), p. 35-46.

  465 “All over the rebel region”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 341-2.

  465 “The blow has fallen”: ibid.

  466 “He has been denounced”: April 29, 1865, Harper’s Weekly.

  466 “The Martyr”: Hubbard, p. 150.

  466 “I heard the crack” Melville Stone, Fifty Years a Journalist (Garden City: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1921), p. 30.

  467 “and were instantly set upon”: Entry of April 15, 1865, Strong, p. III: 583-4.

  467 “copperhead organ”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 350.

  467 “There are not on this day mourners more sincere”: ibid., p. IV: 409.

  467 “Today every loyal heart”: New York World, reprinted in April 17, 1865, National Intelligencer, from Harper, p. 353.

  467 “We are stunned”: New York Daily News, reprinted in April 17, 1865, National Intelligencer, ibid.

  467 “No language of which we are capable”: Boston Courier, Reprinted in April 19, 1865, National Intelligencer, ibid.

  467 “We had opposed Mr. Lincoln”: April 17, 1865, Dayton Daily Empire, ibid., p. 357.

  467 “We have voted against Lincoln’s election”: April 26, 1865, Milwaukee See-Bote, from Klement, p. 243-4.

  468 “Since the assassination”: April 26, 1865, The Crisis.

  468 “the men who had misrepresented”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 409.

  468 “Lincoln’s death seemed”: Michael Davis, p. 99.

  Page 468 “one sweet drop”: Fehrenbacher, “The Anti-Lincoln Tradition,” p. 8.

  468 “Could there have been a fitter death”: Michael Davis, p. 100.

  468 “All honor to J. Wilkes Booth”: Carolyn L. Harrell, When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination (Macon, GA: Mercer Press, 1997), p. 86.

  469 “the world is happily rid of a monster”: Fehrenbacher, “The Anti-Lincoln Tradition,” p. 10

  469 “from now until God’s judgment day”: April 25, 1865, Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, Mitgang, p. 476-7.

  469 “It does look to us�
��: Harrell, p. 85.

  469 “eternal vengeance against the whole Southern race”: ibid., p. 40.

  469 “Few men will stop from committing any outrage”: ibid., p. 43-4.

  469 “The heaviest blow,” etc.: April 17, 1865, reprinted in the April 27, 1865 Louisville Journal, Mitgang, p. 476.

  469 “The more violently ‘secesh’”: Entry of April 22, 1865, in the diary of Sarah Dawson, from Davis, p. 101.

  470 “He was not a hero”: Sandburg, The War Years, p. IV: 372.

  470 “Abraham Lincoln was as little of a tyrant”: April 29, 1865, London Times, Brogan, p. 176. “Yes, he had lived”: May 6, 1865, London Punch, Mitgang, p. 488.

  471 “English writers”: April 27, 1865, London Morning Star, from Harper, p. 488.

  472 “brutal, bitter, sarcastic, personal attack”: Trietsch, p. 297.

  472 “They tell me” and “The paper is yours”: Maihafer, p. 253.

  472 “among the last” April 17, 1865, New York Tribune.

  472 “Without the least desire”: April 19, 1865, New York Tribune, Mitgang, p. 468-472.

  472 “There were those who say”: Horace Greeley, Reflections of a Busy Life (NY: J.B. Ford & Co., 1869), p. 404.

  473 “I didn’t favor his re-nomination”: ibid., p. 409.

  473 “Looking back”: July, 1891, Century Magazine, from Currey, p. 158.

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