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405 "should not do that": Browning, Diary, 1:604.

405 "He lied": Ibid., 1:603.

405 "and their enemies": Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987), p. 193.

405 "confidence and esteem": Nicolay to Therena Bates, Dec. 23,1862, Nicolay MSS, LC.

406 "of Almighty G.o.d": CW, 6:2326. For Sumner's role, see Donald, Sumner, p. 97.

406 "put it through": Hay, Diary, pp. 111112.

406 "anyone could": Hemdon's Lincoln, 3:533.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WHAT WILL THE COUNTRY SAY!

T. Harry Williams, Lincoln and His Generals (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), offers a spirited account of Lincoln's unhappy efforts to identify able commanders. In vol. 2 of Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War (New York: Macmillan Co., 1949), Kenneth P. Williams provides an expert a.n.a.lysis of Hooker's campaign. On antiwar movements in the North, Wood Gray, The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads (New York: Viking Press, 1942) and Frank L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), offer conflicting interpretations.

407 the reception line: Patricia Carley Johnson, ed., "Sensitivity and Civil War: The Selected Diaries and Papers ... of Frances Adeline [f.a.n.n.y] Seward" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1963), pp. 586587; New York Herald, Jan. 3, 1863.

407 "going to be done!": Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton as Senator and Secretary of State (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 151.

408 "and da[u]ntless courage": CW, 6:39.

408 mounting "counter-raids": CW, 6:108.

408 "so, ranks you": CW, 6:138139.

409 "idiotically drunk": Murat Halstead to Salmon P. Chase, Apr. 1, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC.

409 "in our ranks": CW, 6:71.

409 "particle of responsibility": "Extracts from the Journal of Henry J. Raymond," Scribner's Monthly 19 (18791880): 424.

409 "not be successful": CW, 6:15.

409 "very disheartening" inactivity: William Marvel, Burnside (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), p. 208.

409 "letting me know": CW, 6:22.

410 "for that policy": CW, 6:32.

410 "existing conditions": Sandburg, 1:629.

410 "and to myself": CW, 6:3132.

410 "face of the enemy": CW, 6:13.