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“the very best…in the field”: General Winfield Scott, quoted in The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, ed. Clifford Dowdey and Louis H. Manarin (Boston: Little, Brown, for the Virginia Civil War Commission, 1961), p. 3.
Lincoln had designated Blair: Robert E. Lee to Reverdy Johnson, February 25, 1868, in Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, p. 4.
“I come to you…the Union army?”: FPB, quoted in William Ernest Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933), p. 17.
“as candidly and as courteously”: Lee to Johnson, February 25, 1868, in Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, p. 4.
“Mr. Blair…my native state?”: R. E. Lee, quoted in National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C., August 9, 1866.
Lee called upon old General Scott: Lee to Johnson, February 25, 1868, in Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee, p. 4
he contacted Scott…“be dear to me”: Lee to Scott, April 20, 1861, in ibid., pp. 8–9 (quotes p. 9).
“Now we are in…draw my sword”: Lee to Anne Marshall, April 20, 1861, in ibid., pp. 9–10.
Lee was designated…Virginia state forces: Ibid., pp. 3, 4, 5.
Benjamin Hardin Helm: “Helm, Benjamin Hardin (1831–1863),” in Stewart Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Confederacy (New York: Facts on File, 1988), p. 125.
While conducting business…“liking of men”: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 127.
“Southern-rights Democrat”: Ibid., pp. 128, 183.
“Ben, here is…your honor bid”: Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 14, 1897 (quotes); AL to Simon Cameron, April 16, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 335.
Helm unable to sleep…“hour of his life”: Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 14, 1897.
a Commission in the Confederate Army: “Helm, Benjamin Hardin,” in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Confederacy, p. 125.
Seward argued…seize vessels: Ivan Musicant, Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), pp. 51–52.
Welles countered…exiting ships: Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 356; Musicant, Divided Waters, p. 51.
The cabinet split down the middle: Niven, Gideon Welles, p. 356.
formal blockade proclamation: AL, “Proclamation of a Blockade,” April 19, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 338–39.
Welles and the Navy Department: Robert V. Bruce, Lincoln and the Tools of War (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956), pp. 6, 16; Musicant, Divided Waters, pp. 41–43.
a wedding celebration: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 51; Bruce, Lincoln and the Tools of War, p. 9.
“would soon secede…Confederacy”: Craig L. Symonds, “Buchanan, Franklin,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 303.
Buchanan resigned…“from this date”: Bruce, Lincoln and the Tools of War, p. 16 (quote); “Buchanan, Franklin (1800–1874),” in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Confederacy, p. 40.
the Norfolk Navy Yard: Musicant, Divided Waters, pp. 28–29.
“extreme uneasiness…made by the first”: Entry for April 18, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
“The scene…indescribably fearful”: Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 20, 1861.
The enraged crowd…knives and revolvers: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. IV (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 115 (quote); Sun, Baltimore, Md., April 20, 1861.
“It’s a notable…the anniversary”: Entry for April 19, 1861, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 126.
“make no point…around Baltimore”: AL to Thomas H. Hicks and George W. Brown, April 20, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 340.
an angry committee of delegates: Entry for April 22, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 37.
“I must have troops…that they must do”: AL, “Reply to Baltimore Committee,” April 22, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 341–42.
“the censorship”…bridges surrounding the city: Ben: Perley Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Vol. II (Philadelphia, 1886; New York, AMS Press, 1971), pp. 78–79.
“Literally…entire isolation”: Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 167.
Cameron slept in his office: Leech, Reveille in Washington, p. 61.
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