Team Of Rivals Part 153

"all convalescents...and rifle-pits": Henry W. Halleck to George Cadwalader, July 9, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. x.x.xVII, Part II, p. 153.

"in a pleasant and confident humor": "12 July 1864, Tuesday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 222.

"in the least concerned...force in our front": "11 July 1864, Monday," in ibid., p. 221.

"exhibits none...on former occasions": Entry for July 11, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 72.

drove together..."were not frightened": Entry for July 11, 1864, Taft diary.

allowing the residents of Was.h.i.+ngton..."troops to the south": Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 246.

"Before even the first...direction of Was.h.i.+ngton": Jubal A. Early, "The Advance on Was.h.i.+ngton in 1864. Letter from General J. A. Early," Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. IX, JanuaryDecember 1881 (Richmond, Va.: Southern Historical Society; Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfood Publis.h.i.+ng Co., Morningside Bookshop, 1990), p. 306.

"to be exceedingly...impregnable": Jubal Anderson Early, War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States, ed. Frank E. Vandiver. Civil War Centennial Series (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 390.

at Fort Stevens: Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Jubal Early's Raid on Was.h.i.+ngton, 1864 (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publis.h.i.+ng Co. of America, 1989), pp. 11755.

"The President evinced...standing upon it": Cramer, Lincoln Under Enemy Fire, p. 30.

"Get down"...unusual incident: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., quoted in ibid., p. 22.

"was exciting and wild...to have occurred": Entry for July 12, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 7576.

"an egregious blunder": Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (New York: Collier Books, 1963), p. 205.

Welles knew...appeared "contemptible": Entry for July 13, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 76.

"Mrs. Lincoln...away as they did!": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 30102 (quote p. 302).

"I am informed...dismissed from the cabinet": Henry W. Halleck to EMS, July 13, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

"Whether the remarks...shall be dismissed": EMS to AL, July 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers; AL to EMS, July 14, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 43940 (quote).

"It would greatly pain...now or hereafter": AL, "Memorandum Read to Cabinet," [July 14?], 186[4], in CW, VII, p. 439.

Learning that Ben Butler..."civilians on either side": MB to Benjamin F. Butler, August 10, 1864, in Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War. Vol. V: August 1864March 1868 (Norwood, Ma.s.s.: Plimpton Press, 1917), p. 32 (quote); Cooling, Jubal Early's Raid on Was.h.i.+ngton, 1864, pp. 15253.

"The loss is...is unrelieved[?]": MB to R. A. Sloane, July 21, 1864, reel 22, Blair Family Papers, DLC.

"The month of August"...throughout the North: Brooks, Lincoln Observed, Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, ed. Michael Burlingame (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. 129.

mid-July call for five hundred thousand additional volunteers: NYT, July 19, 1864.

"dissatisfaction...with the colors flying": Ibid.

An ingenious attempt: See Dorothy L. Drinkard, "Crater, Battle of the (30 July 1864)," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 517; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 75860.

"Piled on top...frightened sheep": Brooks, Lincoln Observed, p. 130.

"It was the saddest...again to have": USG to Henry W. Halleck, August 1, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XL, Part I, p. 17.

"less however from the result...of the future": Entry for August 2, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 92.

he admitted feeling..."of our generals": Entry for August 1, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 392.

he met with Grant at Fort Monroe: NYH, August 3, 1864.

dispatched General Philip Sheridan..."troops go also": USG to Henry W. Halleck, August 1, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. x.x.xVII, Part II, p. 558.

"This, I think, is exactly right": AL to USG, August 3, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 476.

"a long and very pleasant...both in time": Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, August 9, 1864, typescript copy, reel 10, French Family Papers, DLC.

"much wretchedness...in the land": Entry for August 4, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 93.

"The People are wild for Peace": TW to WHS, August 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

"two Amba.s.sadors...for a peace": William C. Jewett to Horace Greeley, July 5, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Urging the president..."doing great harm": Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

commissioned Horace Greeley...escort them to Was.h.i.+ngton: AL to Horace Greeley, July 9, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 435.

dispatched John Hay to join Greeley: "[ca. 21 July 1864]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 22425; "[after 22 July 1864]," in ibid., p. 228; entry for July 18, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 273.

"To Whom it may concern...collateral points": AL, "To Whom It May Concern," July 18, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 451.

the two envoys...to stop the war: "[after 22 July 1864]," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 228.

He hoped the failed mission...of freeing the slaves: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 176; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IX, pp. 19394.

"are told...an impossibility": TW to WHS, August 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Swett felt compelled...situation was hopeless: Leonard Swett to his wife, September 8, 1864, quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II (-: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900), p. 202.

were mystified..."his Cabinet": Entry of August 17, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 109.

"I am in active...of the Const.i.tution": Henry J. Raymond to AL, August 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

"I confess that I...prosperity to the country": "The Interview between Thad Stevens & Mr. Lincoln as related by Col R. M. Hoe," compiled by JGN, container 10, Nicolay Papers.

asked all cabinet members...a successful conclusion: "11 November 1864, Friday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 24748.

"This morning...possibly save it afterwards": AL, "Memorandum Concerning His Probable Failure of Re-election," August 23, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 514.

"was considering"...would lend his hand: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 17375 (quotes pp. 173, 175).

Dougla.s.s met with..."within our boundaries": Dougla.s.s, Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s, pp. 79697.