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22. Doubleday, “From Moultrie to Sumter,” pp. 42–43.
23. Crawford, History, p. 95.
24. Ibid., pp. 50–51.
25. Ibid., p. 55.
26. Doubleday, Reminiscences, p. 56.
27. Floyd to Anderson, Dec. 21, 1860, OR I, vol. 1, p. 103.
28. DAB, Cullum, Biographical Register, pp. 347–52; Eba Anderson Lawton, ed., An Artillery Officer in the Mexican War, 1846–7: Letters of Robert Anderson, Captain 3rd Artillery, U.S.A. (New York and London, 1911), pp. 311–13.
29. Doubleday, Reminiscences, pp. 60–61.
30. Crawford, History, pp. 102–03.
31. Doubleday, Reminiscences, pp. 61–67; Crawford, History, pp. 103–07.
32. Charleston Mercury, Dec. 28, 1860.
33. The family correspondence of Colonel William Hemsley Emory is now part of the James Wood Poplar Grove Papers in the Maryland State Archives.
34. David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New York, 2006), p. 10.
35. Charleston Courier, Dec. 28, 1860; Baltimore Sun, Dec. 28, 1860.
36. Swanberg, First Blood, p. 145.
37. This figure includes supplements that were published in the twentieth century. The original series totals 138,000 pages.
38. For an illuminating discussion of Lincoln as both progressive and conservative, see Richard Striner, Lincoln’s Way: How Six Great Presidents Created American Power (Lanham, Md., 2010).
39. Guenter, The American Flag, 1777–1924: Cultural Shifts from Creation to Codification (Rutherford, N.J., 1990), pp. 57–87; Michael Corcoran, For Which It Stands: An Anecdotal Biography of the American Flag (New York, 2002), pp. 78ff. Even though flags were now printed rather than individually stitched, that spring the cost of red, white, and blue bunting increased from $4.75 to $28 per yard.
40. Congress created the Medal of Honor in 1862. Of the more than 1,500 that would be awarded for acts of heroism in the Civil War, more than half involved a rescue of the American colors, or a capture of the enemy’s.
Chapter One: Wide Awake
1. C. W. Clarence, A Biographical Sketch of the Life of Ralph Farnham, of Acton, Maine, Now in the One Hundred and Fifth Year of His Age, and the Sole Survivor of the Glorious Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston, 1860); Daily National Intelligencer, July 18, 1860; Boston Bee, Oct. 9, 1860; Boston Post, Oct. 9, 1860.
2. Quoted in James Elliot Cabot, A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston, 1887–88), vol. 1, p. 91.
3. “The Kansas Question,” Putnam’s Monthly [Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art], vol. 6, no. 34 (Oct. 1855).
4. Webster and Adams both quoted in George B. Forgie, Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age (New York, 1979), pp. 67–68.
5. “Procrustes, Junior,” “Great Men, A Misfortune,” Southern Literary Messenger, April 1860, p. 308.
6. Clarence, A Biographical Sketch; Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1765–1820 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1990).
7. Massachusetts Historical Society, Ambrotype Collection, photo 2.16.
8. Masao Miyoshi, As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860) (Berkeley, 1979), pp. 10–15; [Masayiko Kanesaboro Yanagawa], The First Japanese Mission to the United States (Kobe, 1937), pp. 48–50, 69. Since Dutch traders had been going to Japan for centuries, a number of educated Japanese spoke that language. Communications with English speakers usually required two translators: one of them Japanese to Dutch, the other Dutch to English.
9. Robert Cellem, Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the British North American Provinces and United States, in the Year 1860 (Toronto, 1861), p. 372. When Ralph Farnham was told that the prince was about to arrive in Boston, he responded, “I don’t want to see him.” Finally, however, he grudgingly deigned to call on the royal personage, who had taken a suite on another floor in the same hotel. After a cordial exchange of pleasantries, the old revolutionary remarked slyly that in light of the enthusiastic reception given to George III’s great-grandson, he was worried his