168. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 6 June [misdated 22 May], Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 9 June 1862.
169. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 6 Apr. 1862, CWL, 5:182.
170. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 9 Apr. 1862, ibid., 5:184–185.
171. Ibid., 5:203.
172. Richard C. McCormick’s reminiscences, New York, 29 Apr. 1865, New York Evening Post, 5 May 1865, semi-weekly edition.
173. Stanton to Herman Dyer, Washington, 18 May 1862, Stanton Papers, DLC.
174. Henry Winter Davis to Samuel Francis Du Pont, Baltimore, 6 April 1862, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
175. Daly, Diary of a Union Lady, 140 (entry for 5 June 1862).
176. Israel Washburn to Hannibal Hamlin, Augusta, 23 May 1862, Israel Washburn Papers, DLC.
177. Barney to Chase, New York, 30 June 1862, Chase Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
178. Henry W. Bellows to Joseph Bellows, New York, 1 Feb. 1862, Bellows Papers, MHi.
179. C. A. Dana to J. S. Pike, New York, 28 May 1862, Pike Papers, University of Maine.
180. Washington correspondence, 21 Apr., New York Examiner, 24 Apr. 1862, Burlingame, ed., Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House, 74.
181. McClure to Ellen McClellan, Philadelphia, 13 Jan. 1892, McClellan Papers, DLC.
182. McClellan to his wife, before Yorktown, 8 Apr. 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 234.
183. New York Tribune, 13 May 1862; Norfolk correspondence, 11 May, New York Herald, 13 May 1862.
184. Fort Monroe correspondence, 9 May, New York Herald, 12 May 1862; “Captain F. A. Rowe’s Reminiscences,” New York, Mar. 1905, in Philip Corell, ed., History of the Naval Brigade, 99th N.Y. Volunteers, Union Coast Guard, 1861–65 (New York: Regimental Veteran Association, 1905), unpaginated.
185. Fortress Monroe correspondence, 9 May, New York Tribune, 12 May 1862; Fort Monroe correspondence, 9 May, New York Herald, 12 May 1862; Fortress Monroe correspondence, 9 May, Baltimore American, n.d., copied in the Washington Star, 12 May 1862.
186. Joseph B. Carr, “Operations of 1861 around Fort Monroe,” Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vols.; New York: Century, [1887–88]), 2:152
187. Capt. Wilson Barstow to Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, Baltimore, 12 May 1862, Barstow Papers, DLC.
188. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 13 May, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 17 May 1862.
189. Stanton to Wool, Washington, 16 May 1862, Wool Papers, New York State Library.
190. Ari Hoogenboom, Fox of the Union Navy (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).
191. Capt. Wilson Barstow to Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, Baltimore, 12 May 1862, Barstow Papers, DLC.
192. Garrison’s Station, New York, correspondence, 25 June, New York Herald, 26 June 1862.
193. Willoughby point correspondence, 10 May, New York Herald, 12 May 1862.
194. William F. Keeler to his wife Anna, aboard the Monitor, 9 May 1862, Daly, ed., Aboard the USS Monitor, 115; Wilson Barstow to Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, Baltimore, 12 May 1862, Barstow Papers, DLC.
195. Washington Evening Star, 12 May 1862.
196. Chase to his daughter Janet, steamer “Baltimore,” 11 May 1862, Niven, ed., Chase Papers, 3:197.
197. Nevins and Thomas, eds., Strong Diary, 3:210 (entry for 16 Mar. 1862).
198. Washington correspondence, 28 Apr., New York Evening Post, 29 Apr. 1862.
199. Iowa State Register (Des Moines), 25 May 1862.
200. Trumbull to John A. McClernand, Washington, 24 May 1862, McClernand Papers, IHi.
201. Washington correspondence by D. W. Bartlett, 18 July, New York Independent, 23 July 1862.
202. Lincoln to McClellan, Fort Monroe, 9 May 1862, CWL, 5:208–209.
203. Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, [7 or 8 or 9] June [1862], Sydney Howard Gay Papers, Columbia University.
204. Herman Haupt, Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt (Milwaukee: Wright & Joys, 1901), 50.
205. Washington correspondence, 9 July, New York Evening Post, 10 July 1862.
206. Sumner to Richard Henry Dana, Washington, 26 May 1862, Richard Henry Dana Papers, MHi.
207. George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, n.p., 26 May 1862, George William Curtis Papers, Harvard University.
208. Nicolay to Therena Bates, Washington, 25 May 1862, in Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, 78–79.
209. Washington correspondence, 26 May, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 1862; Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 28 May, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 30 May 1862.
210. Memo by Col. John P. C. Shanks, “Conversation between President Lincoln & Col. Zagonyi, Written out by Col. Shanks who was present at the interview,” recounting a conversation with Lincoln on 15 June 1862, Sydney Howard Gay Papers, Columbia University.
211. Lincoln to McDowell, Washington, 24 May 1862, CWL, 5:233.
212. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, ed., Memoir of John A. Dahlgren (Boston: Osgood, 1882), 375 (diary entry for 24 May 1862).
213. Lincoln to Frémont, Washington, 24 May 1862, CWL, 5:231.
214. Yates to Trumbull, Springfield, 14 Feb. 1862, Lyman Trumbull Papers, DLC.
215. CWL, 5:231.
216. McDowell to C. A. Hecksher, 17 June 1862, Barlow Papers, in Allan Nevins, The War for the Union (4 vols.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959–1971), 2:128; CWL, 5:233.
217. Lincoln to Chase, Washington, 25 May 1862, CWL, 5:235.
218. Lincoln to Frémont, Washington, 15 June 1862, CWL, 5:271.
219. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 25 May 1862, CWL, 5:236, 237.
220. Henry Winter Davis to Samuel Francis Du Pont, Baltimore, [no day indicated] June 1862, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
221. Memo by Col. John P. C. Shanks, “Conversation between President Lincoln & Col. Zagonyi, Written out by Col. Shanks who was present at the interview,” recounting a conversation with Lincoln on 15 June 1862, Sydney Howard Gay Papers, Columbia University.
222. CWL, 5:246.
223. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 3 June, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 7 June 1862.
224. Memo by Col. John P. C. Shanks, “Conversation between President Lincoln & Col. Zagonyi, Written out by Col. Shanks who was present at the interview,” recounting a conversation with Lincoln on 15 June 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
225. Washington correspondence, 2 June, Cincinnati Commercial, 3 June 1862.
226. McClellan to his wife, Camp Lincoln, 22 June 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 305.
227. CWL, 5:272.
228. Nicolay to Therena Bates, Washington, 5 June 1862, Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, 80.
229. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 17 June, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 20 June 1862; Washington correspondence, 16 June, Cincinnati Commercial, 17 June 1862.
230. CWL, 5:276.
231. New York correspondence, 25 June, New York Herald, 26 June 1862.
232. Peter Cozzens and Robert I. Girardi, eds., The Military Memoirs of General John Pope (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 121.
233. Henry T. Cheever to his sister Elizabeth, Worcester, 3 July 1862, Cheever Papers, American Antiquarian Society.
234. General Augustus L. Chetlain, “Recollections of General U. S. Grant,” Military Essays and Recollections: Papers Read Before the Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (4 vols.; Chicago: McClurg, 1891) 1:30.
235. Thomas J. McCormack, ed., Memoir of Gustave Koerner, 1809–1896 (2 vols.; Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1909), 2:216.
236. Washburne to Grant, Washington, 24 Jan. 1864, John Y. Simon, ed., Grant Papers, 9:522–523.
237. Beale, ed., Welle
s Diary, 1:126 (entry for 12 Sept. 1862).
238. McClellan to Stanton, Camp Lincoln, 25 June 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 309–310.
239. CWL, 5:286.
240. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 22 July, Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 24 July 1862.
241. McClellan to Stanton, Savage Station, 28 June 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 323.
242. Pease and Randall, eds., Browning Diary, 1:559 (entry for 14 July 1862).
243. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 28 June 1862, CWL, 5:289–290.
244. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 1 July 1862, CWL, 5:298.
245. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 2 July 1862, CWL, 5:301.
246. McClellan to Stanton, Harrison’s Bar, 3 July 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 333.
247. CWL, 5:305–306.
248. CWL, 5:307.
249. Cincinnati Commercial, 12 Sept. 1862.
250. Washington correspondence, 28 Nov., New York Independent, 3 Dec. 1863.
251. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 17 Dec., Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 19 Dec. 1862.
252. Henry C. Deming, Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln (Hartford, CT: A. N. Clark, 1865), 40.
253. New York Evening Post, 28 July 1862.
254. W. H. Smith in “Lincoln as the Loneliest Man,” clipping from the Drayter (?) Gleaner, 2 Nov. 1937, clipping collection, LMF.
255. Theodore Burton, address given in 1909, in Addresses Delivered at the Lincoln Dinners of the Republican Club of New York in Response to the Toast Abraham Lincoln, 1887–1909 (New York: Republican Club of New York, 1909), 307–308.
256. Washington correspondence by B. M. F., 29 July, Cincinnati Gazette, 1 Aug. 1862.
257. Hilon Parker to his father, Fort [Meigs?], 2 Aug. 1863, Hilon Parker Papers, Williams L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
258. Dawes to his wife Electa, Washington, 3 July 1862, Dawes Papers, DLC.
259. Fessenden to Elizabeth Warriner, Washington, 6 July 1862, Fessenden Family Papers, Bowdoin College.
260. N. C. McFarland to John Sherman, Hamilton, 8 July 1862, John Sherman Papers, DLC.
261. New York Evening Post, 7 July 1862.
262. Phillips to Charles Sumner, n.p., 29 June 1862, Sumner Papers, Harvard University.
263. Samuel J. May, Jr., to “Dear Charles,” Leicester, Mass., 17 July 1862, May Papers, Boston Public Library.
264. Lincoln to Seward, Washington, 28 June 1862, CWL, 5:292.
265. Pease and Randall, eds., Browning Diary, 1:559 (entry for 14 July 1862).
266. Medill to Lyman Trumbull, Chicago, 4 July 1862, Lyman Trumbull Papers, DLC.
267. Henry L. Dawes to his wife, Washington, 5 July 1862, Dawes Papers, DLC.
268. Harrison G. O. Blake to Lincoln, Medina, Ohio, 28 July 1862, AL MSS DLC.
269. Nathaniel S. Berry, et al. to Lincoln, Concord, 30 July 1862, ibid.
270. Nevins and Thomas, eds., Strong Diary, 3:244 (entry for 26 July 1862).
271. Cincinnati Commercial, 9 July 1862.
272. Lincoln to Agenor-Etienne de Gasparin, Washington, 4 Aug. 1862, CWL, 5:355.
273. Edgar F. Brown to “Dear Hannah,” Washington, 27 July 1862, Edgar F. Brown Papers, DLC.
274. CWL, 5:367.
275. Meigs pocket diary, entry for 5 July 1862, DLC.
276. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 191 (entry for 28 Apr. 1864).
277. Washington correspondence by Agate [Whitelaw Reid], 10 July, Cincinnati Gazette, 14 July 1862.
278. McClellan to his wife, Berkeley, 17 July 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 362.
279. Sears, George B. McClellan, 227.
280. William C. Davis, Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (New York: Free Press, 1999), 68, citing Charles A. Fuller, “Personal Recollections,” 46.
281. Harrison’s Landing correspondence, 9 July, New York Herald, 11 July 1862.
282. Washington correspondence, 11 July, New York Evening Post, 12 July 1862
283. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 359, citing Charles N. Walker and Rosemary Walker, eds., “Diary of War of Robert S. Robertson,” Old Fort News, 28 (Jan.-Mar. 1965), 42.
284. William F. Keeler to his wife Anna, aboard the Monitor, 23 July 1862, Daly, ed., Aboard the USS Monitor, 189.
285. New York Evening Post and New York Herald, 14 July 1862.
286. Joseph Hopkins Twichell to his father, near Harrison’s Landing, 9 July 1862, Peter Messent and Steve Courtney, eds., The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain’s Story (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), 165–166.
287. Davis, Lincoln’s Men, 69.
288. McClellan to Lincoln, Camp near Harrison’s Landing, 7 July 1862, AL MSS DLC.
289. Carl Sandburg note, source unidentified, Sandburg-Barrett Papers, Newberry Library, Chicago.
290. Welles, “History of Emancipation,” in Albert Mordell, comp. Selected Essays of Gideon Welles: Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: Twayne, 1959), 235–236.
291. McClellan to his wife, Berkeley, 9, 10 July 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 348.
292. Ibid., 370.
293. Nicolay to Therena Bates, Washington 13 July 1862, Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, 85.
294. Lincoln to McClellan, Washington, 13 July 1862, CWL, 5:322.
295. McClellan to his wife, Berkeley, 15 July 1862, Sears, ed., McClellan Papers, 358.
296. Pease and Randall, eds., Browning Diary 1:563 (entry for 25 July 1862).
297. Welles, Lincoln and Seward (New York: Sheldon, 1874), 197.
298. Washington correspondence by Sigma, 13 July, Cincinnati Commercial, 18 July 1862; Washington correspondence by Agate [Whitelaw Reid], 13 July, Cincinnati Gazette, 16 July 1862; Adams S. Hill to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 12 July 1862, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
299. Chandler to his wife, Washington 6, 11 July 1862, Chandler Papers, DLC.
300. Edward Everett Hale to Henry W. Bellows, Brookline, Massachusetts, 8 July 1862, Bellows Papers, MHi.
301. Benjamin Brown French, Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870, ed. Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989), 405.
302. CWL, 5:358-359.
303. Speech by Leonard Swett, 26 Apr. 1880, Chicago Times, 27 Apr. 1880.
304. Washington correspondence, 6 Aug., New York Tribune, 7 Aug. 1862; Washington correspondence by Agate [Whitelaw Reid], 7 Aug., Cincinnati Gazette, 11 Aug. 1862.
305. Washington correspondence, 6 Aug., Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 1862; Washington correspondence, 6 Aug., Cincinnati Gazette, 7 Aug. 1862.
306. Providence Journal, 12 August 1862; Washington correspondence by [E]rastus B[rooks], 12 July, New York Evening Express, 14 July 1862.
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1. Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), 20–21.
2. Maria Lydig Daly, Diary of a Union Lady, 1861–1865, ed. Harold Earl Hammond (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1962), 179 (entry for 28 Sept. 1862).
3. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop (Boston: Little, Brown, 1897), 229 (entry for 31 July 1863).
4. Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (3 vols.; New York: McClure, 1907–1908), 2:309–310.
5. Moncure D. Conway, Autobiography: Memories and Experiences (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:161.
6. Carpenter, Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln, 77.
7. Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, eds., Diary of George Templeton Strong, 1835–1875 (4 vols.; New York: Macmillan, 1952), 3:204–205 (entry for 29 Jan. 1862).
8. Cincinnati Gazette, 25 July 1862.
9. Cheever to Gerrit Smith, New York, 6 Mar. 1861, Smith Papers, Syracuse University.
10. Memorandum, Was
hington, 26 Apr. 1862, of a conversation with Sumner in December 1861, Edward Everett Hale, Memories of One Hundred Years (2 vols.; New York: Macmillan, 1902), 2:191; Sumner to John A. Andrew, Washington, 27 Dec. 1861, Andrew Papers, MHi.
11. Frank Abial Flower, Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and Reconstruction (Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1905), 183.
12. CWL, 5:146; Hale, Memories of One Hundred Years, 2:194–195.
13. Howe to Frank Bird, Washington, 5 Mar. 1862, in Laura E. Richards, ed., Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe (2 vols.; Boston: D. Estes, 1906–1909), 2:500–501.
14. Roy P. Basler et al., eds., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [hereafter CWL] (8 vols. plus index; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953–1955), 5:144–145.
15. William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore, eds., His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings of Owen Lovejoy, 1838–1864 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 320.
16. Child to Horace Greeley, Wayland, Massachusetts, 9 Mar. 1862, Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817–1880, ed. Milton Meltzer and Patricia G. Holland (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 407.
17. Moncure D. Conway to his wife Ellen, [Boston], 8 Mar. [1862], Conway Papers, Columbia University.
18. Phillips’s lecture at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 14 Mar., New York Tribune, 18 Mar. 1862; Washington Evening Star, 15 Mar. 1862.
19. Moncure D. Conway to his wife Ellen, [Boston], 8 Mar. [1862], Conway Papers, Columbia University.
20. Wendell Phillips’s speech in Boston, 18 Apr., New York Tribune, 19 Apr. 1862; Phillips to his wife Ann, en route from Milwaukee to Madison, Wisconsin, 31 Mar. 1862, Phillips Papers, Harvard University.
21. Wendell Phillips Garrison et al., William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children (4 vols.; New York: Century, 1885–1889), 4:49; American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862, 789; The Liberator (Boston), 14 Mar. 1862.
22. Potter, journal entries for 12, 29 Mar. 1862, Potter Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society.
23. Maria Weston Chapman to Mary Estlin, 18 Mar. 1862, in McPherson, Struggle for Equality, 96.
24. New York Tribune, 7, 8, 11, 24 Mar. 1862.
25. Sumner to an abolitionist friend, Boston, 5 June 1862, Boston Evening Journal, n.d., copied in the New York Tribune, 16 June 1862; Emerson, “American Civilization,” The Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1862, 511.
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