A World on Fire_ Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman [492]
42. The Times, January 23, 1863.
43. R. A. Preston, “Letter from a British Military Observer of the American Civil War,” Military Affairs, 16 (1952), p. 55.
44. Quoted in Margaret Leach, Reveille in Washington (Alexandria, Va., 1962; repr. 1980), p. 276.
45. In contrast to the British Army, assistant surgeons in the Northern army were ranked as lieutenants and generally afforded much greater respect. “The social position of the medical, as compared with the combatant officers, is decidedly good, much better than in our own army,” Mayo explained to British readers in an essay about his experiences. It did not provoke comment that “any person with decent prospects of success in civil practice should ever think of entering it.” Francis Galton (ed.), Vacation Tourists, 1862–1863 (London, 1864), p. 376.
46. Ibid., p. 384.
47. Duke University, Malet family MSS, Malet to father, December 16, 1862.
48. Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 2008), vol. 2, p. 446.
49. George Templeton Strong, Diary of the Civil War, 1860–1865, ed. Allan Nevins (New York, 1962), p. 282, December 18, 1862.
50. Ibid., p. 282, December 21, 1862.
51. William H. Seward (ed.), Seward at Washington (New York, 1891), p. 487, Seward to wife, December 28, 1860.
52. Diary of Gideon Welles, 3 vols. (Boston, 1911), vol. 1, p. 133, September 16, 1862.
53. MPUS, p. 160, Adams to Seward, July 31, 1862.
54. MHS, Adams MSS, Diary of Charles Francis Adams, December 22, 1862.
55. PRO 30/22/36, ff. 320–23, Lyons to Russell, December 12, 1862.
56. PRFA (1862), p. 124, Seward to Adams, July 5, 1862.
57. Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (Kent, Ohio, 1987), p. 191.
58. John M. Taylor, William Henry Seward: Lincoln’s Right Hand (New York, 1991), p. 208.
59. David H. Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (New York, 1970), p. 90.
60. Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2., p. 453.
61. PRO 30/22/36, ff. 327–30, Lyons to Russell, December 22, 1862.
62. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes (eds.), The American Civil War Through British Eyes, vol. 2 (Kent, Ohio, 2005), p. 282, Lyons to Russell, December 26, 1862.
63. Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, ed. Frank Moore, 12 vols. (New York, 1863), vol. 6, p. 299.
64. Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, 2nd series (340.1831), Lord Hartington to Duke of Devonshire, December 18, 1862.
65. Ibid., Lord Hartington to Duke of Devonshire, December 25, 1862.
66. Ibid., Lord Hartington to Duke of Devonshire, September 29, 1862.
67. Ibid., Lord Hartington to Duke of Devonshire, October 17, 1862.
68. Ibid., Lord Hartington to Duke of Devonshire, December 28, 1862.
69. William Watson was in Baton Rouge, where slaves vastly outnumbered the white population. He watched his friends confront the possibility by speaking directly to their slaves. There seemed to be little desire to leave. “If we run away, and go to New Orleans, like dem crazy niggers, where is we?” asked one slave wisely. “If so be we are to get free, we get it anyhow.” William Watson, Life in the Confederacy: Being the Observations and Experiences of an Alien in the South During the Civil War (London, 1887; repr. Baton Rouge, La., 1995), p. 430.
70. Borcke, “Memoirs,” p. 458.
71. Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, 2nd series (340.1831), Lord Hartington to Duke of Devonshire, December 28, 1862.
Chapter 16: The Missing Key to Victory
1. Charles Herbert Mayo, Genealogical History of the Mayo and Elton Family (privately printed, 1882), p. 230.
2. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals (New York, 2005), p. 498.
3. James McPherson, Tried by War (New York, 2009), p. 149.
4. Winston Groom, Vicksburg, 1863 (New York, 2009), p. 132. It is important to note, however, that James McPherson does not believe that Lincoln ever said those words; he concludes that the conversation was fabricated by Admiral David Dixon Porter. Even so, Lincoln himself would have agreed with them. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War