Team Of Rivals Part 135

"hurl King Lincoln from his throne": Clement L. Vallandigham speech, May 1, 1863, quoted in Fletcher Pratt, Stanton: Lincoln's Secretary of War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1953), p. 289.

"The door resisted"...a side entrance: Cincinnati Commercial, quoted in Star, May 9, 1863.

found him guilty...habeas corpus was denied: Trial of Clement L. Vallandigham, enclosure in Ambrose E. Burnside to Henry W. Halleck, May 18, 1863, and General Orders, No. 68, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, May 16, 1863, OR, Ser. 2, Vol. V, pp. 63346; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 597.

the Chicago Times...the paper down: Entry for June 3, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 632.

While he later admitted...uphold Burnside: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 597; entry for June 3, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 321.

Thurlow Weed deplored the arrest: TW to John Bigelow, June 27, 1863, in John Bigelow, Retrospective of an Active Life. Vol. II: 18631865 (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1909), p. 23.

Senator Trumbull..."government overthrown": Entry for May 17, 1863, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 630.

"by a large and honest"...the loyal states: Nathaniel P. Tallmadge to WHS, May 24, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

Lincoln, searching...Confederate lines: Charles F. Howlett, "Vallandigham, Clement Laird," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 2012.

his Copperhead body..."where his heart already was": Schuyler Colfax to AL, June 13, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

"general satisfaction...power for evil": NYT, May 21, 1863.

Vallandigham was removed...escaped to Canada: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 597.

Stanton revoked...to suppress newspapers: EMS to Ambrose E. Burnside, June 1, 1863, in OR, Ser. 2, Vol. V, p. 724; General Orders, No. 91, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, June 4, 1863, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIII, Part II, p. 386.

"suppress the...of its citizens": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 15657.

Upon hearing...opposed his action: Ambrose E. Burnside to AL, May 29, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

Lincoln not only refused..."through with it": AL to Ambrose E. Burnside, May 29, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 237.

"Often an idea...from every side": James F. Wilson recollections, quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. II (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1936; 1939), p. 308.

"It has vigor and ability": Entry of June 5, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 323.

"we are Struggling...in Rhetoric": MB to AL, June 6, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

The finished letter..."if he shall desert": AL to Erastus Corning and Others, [June 12,] 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 26069 (quotes pp. 264, 26667).

"It is full...and conclusive": NYT, June 15, 1863.

Edward Everett..."the step complete": Edward Everett to AL, June 16, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

"It is a grand doc.u.ment...every citizen": "The President's Letter," June 15, 1863, in William O. Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), p. 160.

Printed in a great variety...10 million people: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 44344.

Welles noted..."a.s.sistant is present": Entry for June 2, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 31920 (quote p. 320).

Blair, frustrated...word with Lincoln: Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 387; entry for May 12, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 292.

"At such a time...interchange of views": Entry for June 30, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 351.

"There is now...consent of the members": Entry for May 16, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, pp. 29293.

"But how idle...furnish the means": SPC to David Dudley Field, June 30, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.

If he were president..."of importance": SPC to James A. Garfield, May 31, 1863, reel 12, Papers of James A. Garfield, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Garfield Papers, DLC].

Blair decried...of Seward and Stanton: Entry for June 23, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 340.

Lincoln's unwillingness...restore McClellan: Entry for June 26, 1863, ibid., p. 345.

In Blair's mind..."throat if he could": "19 July 1863, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 65.

Blair's hatred for Stanton...military information: Entry for June 30, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 352.

"Strange, strange...Stanton and Seward": Entry for June 15, 1863, ibid., p. 329.

Recognizing Blair's desire...to get through: For a description of Blair's innovations with the postal service, see chapter 31 of Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 90111.

catch up with his "Neptune"...telegraph office: Entry for July 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 370.

When he felt compelled..."admirable success": AL to GW, July 25, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 349.

A particularly bitter..."be very mad": AL, quoted in entry for May 26, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 313.

the humorist Orpheus Kerr..."as regards myself": Entry for June 17, 1863, ibid., p. 333.

William Rosecrans..."to do hastily": AL to William S. Rosecrans, May 20, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 224.

felt compelled to remove General Samuel Curtis..."faithful, and patriotic": AL to Samuel R. Curtis, June 8, 1863, in ibid., p. 253.

a note from Governor Gamble..."grossly offensive": Hamilton R. Gamble to AL, July 13, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

was told "to put it away": "23 July 1863, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 66.

"trying to preserve...should offend you": AL to Hamilton R. Gamble, July 23, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

Milroy railed about "the...hatred" of Halleck: Robert H. Milroy to AL, June 28, 1863, Lincoln Papers. See also Robert H. Milroy to John P. Usher, June 28, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

"I have scarcely seen...you have split": AL to Robert H. Milroy, June 29, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 308.

"Truth to speak...so, ranks you": AL to William S. Rosecrans, March 17, 1863, in ibid., p. 139.

Grant had advanced...settled into a siege: Stanley S. McGowen, "Vicksburg Campaign (MayJuly 1863)," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 202125.

"Whether Gen. Grant...brilliant in the world": AL to Isaac N. Arnold, May 26, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 230.