122. Trumbull to N. P. Banks, Washington, 18 Feb. 1864, Banks Papers, IHi.
123. Lyman Trumbull to H. G. McPike, Washington, 6 Feb. 1864, draft, Trumbull Papers, DLC.
124. W. W. Orme to David Davis, Chicago, 3 Apr. 1864, David Davis Papers, IHi.
125. W. M. Dickson to Friedrich Hassaurek, Cincinnati, 15 Feb. 1864, Hassaurek Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
126. C. H. Spahr to John Sherman, Jamestown, Ohio, 6 May 1864, Sherman Papers, DLC.
127. Beecher to Chase, Brooklyn, 28 Dec. 1863, Niven, ed., Chase Papers, 4:231; Stearns to William Lloyd Garrison, 12 Sept., Boston Commonwealth, 23 Sept. 1864.
128. Charles Scheffer to Ignatius Donnelly, 1 Feb. 1864, in Martin Ridge, Ignatius Donnelly: The Portrait of a Politician (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), 83.
129. August Wattles to Horace Greeley, 6 Feb. 1864, Greeley Papers, New York Public Library.
130. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., to his father, Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Washington, 4 May 1864, and Lakeville, Connecticut, 6 Aug. 1864, Richard Henry Dana Papers, MHi.
131. Child to Gerrit Smith, Wayland, Massachusetts, 22 Apr. 1864, Smith Papers, Syracuse University.
132. Sumner to Richard Cobden, 18 Sept. 1864, Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner (4 vols.; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877–1893), 4:199–200.
133. A. G. Riddle, Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington, 1860–1865 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895), 267.
134. Fessenden to his son William, Washington, 7 Feb. 1864; Fessenden to his son Frank, Washington, 23 Mar. 1864; Fessenden to Elizabeth Warriner, Washington, 27 Feb, 1864; Fessenden to Thomas Amory Deblois, Washington, [1?] Mar. 1864, Fessenden Papers, Bowdoin College.
135. Grimes to William P. Fessenden, Burlington, Iowa, [6?] Aug. 1864, copy, ibid.
136. Timothy O. Howe to John F. Potter, Washington, 20 Jan. 1864, Potter Papers Wisconsin State Historical Society.
137. Hoar to John Murray Forbes, 4 May 1864, in Moorfield Storey, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar: A Memoir (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 140–141.
138. Forbes to George William Curtis, draft, Boston, 28 Apr. 1864, in Sarah Forbes Hughes, ed., Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes (2 vols.; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 2:89.
139. Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 13 Feb. 1864.
140. Mullet to Chase, Washington, Washington, 16 May 1864, Chase Papers, DLC.
141. Bradford Wood to Chase, Copenhagen, 19 May 1863, ibid.
142. Morgan to Thurlow Weed, Washington, 6 Mar. 1864, Weed Papers, University of Rochester.
143. Henry Winter Davis to Samuel F. Du Pont, n.p., 29 Feb. 1864, transcript, S. F. Du Pont Papers, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware.
144. Beale, ed., Bates Diary, 333 (entry for 13 Feb. 1864).
145. Shelby M. Cullom, Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1911), 98.
146. Chase to William Sprague, Washington, 26 Nov. 1863, Niven, ed., Chase Papers, 4:204.
147. Diary of William T. Coggeshall, 26 Nov. 1863, in Freda Postle Koch, Colonel Coggeshall: The Man Who Saved Lincoln (Columbus, Ohio: Poko Press, 1985), 63.
148. Chase to Levitt, Washington, 24 Jan. 1864, Niven, ed., Chase Papers, 4:262.
149. Chase to Eli A. Spencer, Washington, 14 Dec. 1863, ibid., 4:217.
150. [John D. Defrees] to Josiah G. Holland, Washington, 8 Aug. 1865, J. G. Holland Papers, New York Public Library in Allen Guelzo, ed., “Holland’s Informants: The Construction of Josiah Holland’s ‘Life of Abraham Lincoln,’ ” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 23 (2002): 44; Thurlow Weed to John Bigelow, Albany, 12 Dec. 1863, in John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life (5 vols.; New York: Baker & Taylor, 1909–1913), 2:110; Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 103 (entry for 29 Oct. 1863).
151. John B. Alley in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 582.
152. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 103, 93, 78 (entries for 29 and 18 Oct. 1863 and for [July–Aug. 1863]).
153. Cullom, Fifty Years of Public Service, 94.
154. Beale, ed., Bates Diary, 333 (entry for 13 Feb. 1864).
155. Medill to Lincoln, Chicago, 17 Feb. 1864, AL MSS DLC.
156. Mark Delahay to Samuel Curtis, Washington, 12 Jan. 1864, Curtis Papers, Iowa State Archives, Des Moines.
157. David Davis to W. W. Orme, Washington, 29 and 30 Mar. 1864, Davis Papers, IHi.
158. Sam Wilkeson to Sydney Howard Gay, [Washington, ca. Feb. 1864], Gay Papers, Columbia University.
159. Chase to James C. Hall, Washington, 18 Jan. 1864, Ohio State Journal (Columbus), 11 Mar. 1864.
160. Halpine to J. G. Bennett, Brattleboro, Vermont, 30 Mar. 1864, Lincoln Collection, ICHi.
161. Charles R. Wilson, ed., “The Original Chase Organization Meeting and the Next Presidential Election,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 23 (1936): 76.
162. The American Annual Cyclopedia of Important Events of the Year 1864 (New York: D. Appleton, 1869), 784.
163. J. M. Winchell to the editor of the New York Times, Hyde Park, New York, 14 August, New York Times, 15 Sept. 1874.
164. Richard C. Parsons to Chase, Cleveland, 9 Dec. 1863, Chase Papers, DLC.
165. Isaac Welsh to Sherman, Armstrongs Mills, Ohio, 25 Feb. 1864, Sherman Papers, DLC.
166. G. W. Gordon to Sherman, Springfield, Ohio, 26 Feb. 1864, ibid.
167. Speech at Hillsboro, Ohio, in Aug. 1863, New York Evening Post, 15 Aug. 1863.
168. Samuel Galloway to Lincoln, Columbus, Ohio, 25 Feb. 1864, AL MSS DLC.
169. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 105 (entry for 30 Oct. 1863).
170. John Palmer Usher to Richard W. Thompson, Washington, 17, 25 Feb. 1864, R. W. Thompson Papers, LMF.
171. John P. Usher, President Lincoln’s Cabinet (Omaha: n.p., 1925), 14.
172. Washington correspondence, 26 Feb., Ohio State Journal (Columbus), 1 Mar. 1864.
173. David Davis to Julius Rockwell, Washington, 25 Feb. 1864, Davis Papers, DLC.
174. John Palmer Usher to R. W. Thompson, Washington, 25 Feb. 1864, R. W. Thompson Papers, LMF.
175. Swayne to Samuel J. Tilden, Washington, 19 Feb. 1864, Tilden Papers, New York Public Library.
176. Medill to Joseph K. C. Forrest, Chicago, 17 Dec. 1863, AL MSS DLC.
177. David Davis to Julius Rockwell, Washington, 24 Jan. [1864], Davis Papers, DLC.
178. Elihu B. Washburne to Thomas Gregg, Washington, 2 Jan. 1864, W. P. Palmer Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society.
179. Homer Byington to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 5 Mar. 1864, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
180. New York Times, 29 Feb. 1864; Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 7 Jan. 1864.
181. Washington correspondence by Van [D. W. Bartlett], 24 Nov., Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, 28 Nov. 1863.
182. Foster to his wife, Washington, 31 May 1864, Foster Papers, MHi.
183. Washington Chronicle, 14 Jan. 1864.
184. David Davis to Julius Rockwell, Washington, 25 Feb. 1864, Davis Papers, DLC.
185. New York Times, 15 Jan. 1864.
186. Thomas Brown to Chase, San Francisco, 4 Jan. 1864, Chase Papers, DLC.
187. Charles Eliot Norton to Marsh, Cambridge, 22 Feb., 19 Apr. 1864, Marsh Papers, University of Vermont.
188. William H. Kent to Sydney Howard Gay, n.p., 25 Feb. 1864, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
189. John Sherman to Timothy C. Day, 28 Mar. 1864, quoted in Day to Sherman, Cincinnati, 4 Apr. 1864, Sherman Papers, DLC.
190. W. D. Bickham to John Sherman, Dayton, 1 Mar. 1864, ibid.
191. James A. Briggs to Salmon P. Chase, New York, 5 Sept. 1863, 8 June 1864, Chase Papers, DLC.
192. Clarke to Chase, Boston, 26 Feb. 1864, ibid.
193. Colfax to Sydney Howard Gay, Washington, 6 Feb. 1864, Gay Papers, Columbia University.
194. Washington correspondence, n.d., Boston Watchtower, n.
d., quoted in Victor B. Howard, Religion and the Radical Republican Movement, 1860–1870 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990), 71.
195. Cameron interview, New York Times, 3 June 1878; Washington correspondence, 10 Jan., New York Times, 11 Jan. 1864. The text of the letter appears in the New York Times, 17 Jan. 1864.
196. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 141 (entry for 9 Jan. 1864).
197. Chandler to Amos Tuck, Philadelphia, 15 Dec. 1864, draft, William E. Chandler Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society.
198. Copy of a letter given to Chandler by Tuck on January 6, 1864, about twenty minutes before he introduced the resolution to the convention, ibid.
199. Memorandum of a statement Chandler made to James F. Colby on 6 Nov. 1911, ibid.
200. Fessenden to his son William, Washington, 7 Feb. 1864, Fessenden Papers, Bowdoin College.
201. Fessenden to Elizabeth Warriner, Washington, 27 Dec. 1863, ibid.
202. W. M. Dickson to Friedrich Hassaurek, Cincinnati, 15 Feb. 1864, Hassaurek Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
203. Ohio State Journal (Columbus), 27 Feb. 1864.
204. David Davis to W. W. Orme, Washington, 29 Feb. 1864, typescript, Davis Papers, ICHi.
205. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 141 (entry for 8 Jan. 1864).
206. Beale, ed., Bates Diary, 345 (entry for 9 Mar. 1864).
207. Davis to Thurlow Weed, Washington, 14 Mar. 1864, Weed Papers, University of Rochester.
208. Franklin B. Sanborn to Moncure D. Conway, Worcester, Massachusetts, 3 May 1864, Conway Papers, Columbia University.
209. Davis to Julius Rockwell, Washington, 13 Mar. 1864, Davis Papers, DLC.
210. Congressional Globe, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, 50 (27 Feb. 1864).
211. Riddle, Recollections, 274–275; Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, Washington, 18 Jan. 1864, Virginia Jeans Laas, ed., Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 393.
212. Riddle, Recollections, 273–276; Riddle, “Interview with Prest. Lincoln,” 12 Dec. [no year indicated], manuscript in the Riddle Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society.
213. Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, Washington, 24 Apr. 1864, Laas, ed., Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee, 371.
214. Noah Brooks, Washington, D. C., in Lincoln’s Time, ed. Herbert Mitgang (1895; Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971), 113; Washington correspondence, 21 Mar., Sacramento Daily Union, 17 Apr. 1863, in Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 26–27.
215. Murat Halstead to Ida Tarbell, Cincinnati, 2 July 1900, Tarbell Papers, Allegheny College.
216. Washington correspondence, 18 Mar., Sacramento Daily Union, 14 Apr. 1863, in Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 26.
217. Briggs to Chase, New York, 30 Sept. 1863, Chase Papers, DLC.
218. Nicolay to Lincoln, New York, 30 March 1864, Michael Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), 132–133.
219. Weed to David Davis, Albany, 9 Feb. 1864, David Davis Papers, IHi.
220. Lincoln to Chase, Washington, 12 Feb. 1864, CWL, 7:181.
221. Nicolay to Lincoln, New York, 30 Mar. 1864, Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, 133.
222. Morgan to Weed, Washington, 6 Mar. 1864, Weed Papers, University of Rochester.
223. John Conness in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 564.
224. Washington correspondence, 27 April, Boston Evening Traveler, 29 Apr. 1865.
225. Lincoln to Chase, Washington, 28 June 1864, CWL, 7:412–413 (two items of the same date).
226. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 213 (entry for 30 June 1864).
227. Lucius E. Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891), 379.
228. William Henry Smith, “Private Memoranda—War Times,” 12 July 1864, photocopy, J. G. Randall Papers, DLC.
229. Hay to William H. Herndon, Paris, 5 Sept. 1866, in Burlingame, ed., At Lincoln’s Side, 110.
230. William D. Kelley, Lincoln and Stanton (New York: Putnam’s, 1885), 86; Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 216 (entry for 1 July 1864).
231. Charles Richard Williams, ed., Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (5 vols.; Columbus: Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, 1922–1926), 3:243 (diary entry for 18 May 1873).
232. Lewis D. Campbell to Thurlow Weed, Hamilton, Ohio, 23 Nov. 1864, Weed Papers, University of Rochester.
233. B. Rush Plumly to N. P. Banks, New Orleans, 20 Oct. 1864, Banks Papers, DLC.
234. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 212–214 (entry for 30 June 1864); New York Daily News, 1 July 1864; Washington correspondence, 1 July, Cincinnati Commercial, n.d., copied in the New York Daily News, 12 July 1864; John Sherman, John Sherman’s Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet: An Autobiography (2 vols.; Chicago: Werner, 1896), 1:337; William Henry Smith, private memoranda, in Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 354; James W. White to Horace Greeley, Washington, 3 July 1864, Sydney Howard Gay Papers, Columbia University; Franklin B. Sanborn to Moncure D. Conway, Florence, Massachusetts, 10 July 1864, Conway Papers, Columbia University.
235. Washington correspondence, n.d. Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican, n.d., copied in the St. Paul Press, 22 July 1864.
236. Usher to Richard W. Thompson, Washington, 5 July 1864, R. W. Thompson Papers, LMF.
237. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 215, 216 (entries for 30 June, 1 July 1864).
238. Fessenden to Elizabeth Warriner, Washington, 3 July 1864; Fessenden to Edward [Fan?], Washington, 3 July 1864; Fessenden to his son William, Washington, 8 July 1864, Fessenden Papers, Bowdoin College; Fessenden to John Searle Tenney of Maine, n.p., n.d., in Fessenden, Fessenden, 1:316–318.
239. Burlingame and Ettlinger, eds., Hay Diary, 216 (entry for 1 July 1864).
240. Charles A. Jellison, Fessenden of Maine, Civil War Senator (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1962), 182–183.
241. New York Daily News, 2 July 1864.
242. Fessenden to Elizabeth Warriner, Washington, 4 Sept. 1864, Fessenden Papers, Bowdoin College.
243. Alexander K. McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times (Philadelphia: Times, 1892), 136.
244. James B. Fry in Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Lincoln, 390.
245. Herndon, “Analysis of the Character of Lincoln,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 1 (1941):406–407.
246. Lincoln to Hooker, Washington, 26 Jan. 1863, CWL, 6:78.
247. Noah Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” in Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 216.
248. Lincoln to Washburne, Washington, 26 Oct. 1863, CWL, 6:540.
249. New York Commercial Advertiser, n.d., copied in an unidentified clipping, J. G. Randall Papers, DLC.
250. Swett to Herndon, Chicago, 17 Jan. 1866, in Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 164.
251. Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, 9:59.
252. Interview between Stevens and Lincoln as related by R. M. Hoe, Burlingame, ed., Oral History of Lincoln, 78.
253. Robert Livingston Stanton, “Reminiscences of President Lincoln,” (ca. 1883), 8, Robert Brewster Stanton Papers, New York Public Library.
254. Noah Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894), 385.
255. Washburne to Grant, Washington, 24 January 1864, John Y. Simon, ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967–), 9:522–523.
256. Chicago Republican, n.d., copied in the New York Evening Post, 14 June 1865.
257. Washburne’s letter is quoted in Jones to Grant, 14 Jan. 1864, Simon, ed., Grant Papers, 9:542.
259. Jones’s statement in Tarbell, Lincoln, 2:188.
260. Simon, ed., Grant Papers, 10:166–167.
261. Rawlins to James H. Wilson, 3 Mar. 1864, ibid., 9:544.
262. James F. Rusling, Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days (New York: Eaton & Mains, 1899), 16.
263. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vols.; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901) [hereafter OR], I, 17, 2:424, 432.
264. Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Jan. 1863.
265. Isaac Markens, Abraham Lincoln and the Jews (New York: the author, 1909), 12.
266. Washington correspondence, 8 Jan., by Isaac M. Wise, The Israelite (Cincinnati), 16 Jan. 1863 (vol. 9, #28); “The Last of General Grant’s Order,” ibid., 23 Jan. 1863; Washington correspondence, 7 Jan., New York Tribune, 8 Jan. 1863.
267. Halleck to Grant, Washington, 21 Jan. 1863, OR, I, 24, 1:9.
268. Nicolay memorandum, Washington, 8 Mar. 1864, in Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, 129.
269. Washington correspondence, 8 Mar., New York Tribune, 9 Mar. 1864; Washington correspondence, 9 Mar., Sacramento Daily Union, 9 Apr. 1864, in Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed, 104.
270. Nicolay memorandum, Washington, 8 Mar. 1864, in Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House, 130.
271. Brooks, Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 387.
272. CWL, 7:234.
273. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events for the Year 1864 (New York: D. Appleton, 1865), 67.
274. Washington correspondence, 14 Mar., New York Examiner, 17 Mar. 1864, Michael Burlingame, ed., Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), 217–218.
275. John Russell Young quoted in the Chicago Tribune, 1 Sept. 1885.
276. Horace Porter, “Lincoln and Grant” in Peter Cozzens, ed., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 6 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 79.
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