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“We have an honest…to Seward”: NYT, July 7, 1861.
Benjamin Butler…therefore contraband of war: Benjamin F. Butler to Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. II, pp. 649–50; Edward L. Pierce, “The Contrabands at Fortress Monroe,” Atlantic Monthly 8 (November 1861), pp. 627–28.
“I will accept…resign your commission”: Benjamin F. Butler, Butler’s Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler (Boston: A. M. Thayer & Co., 1892), p. 242.
Butler’s order…a confiscation law: Endorsements by Winfield Scott and Simon Cameron, in Benjamin F. Butler to Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. II, p. 652; Simon Cameron to Benjamin F. Butler, May 30, 1861, container 5, Papers of Benjamin F. Butler, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Butler Papers]; John Syrett, “Confiscation Acts (6 August 1861 and 17 July 1862),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 477–79.
“You were right…this new doctrine”: MB to Benjamin F. Butler, May 29, 1861, container 5, Butler Papers.
hundreds of courageous slaves: Pierce, “The Contrabands at Fortress Monroe,” Atlantic Monthly (1861), pp. 628, 630.
Two weeks into…not to eliminate slavery: Entry for July 22, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 100.
“sword…slavery must die”: John Lothrop Motley to his wife, June 23, 1861, in The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, Vol. I, ed. George William Curtis (New York: Harper & Bros., 1889), p. 390.
“Forward to Richmond!”: NYTrib, June 26, 1861.
“the immediate movement…20th July”: Entry for July 11, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 479.
General Scott hesitated…public would diminish: James A. Rawley, Turning Points of the Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966), pp. 52–53.
McDowell’s plan: John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion. Campaigns of the Civil War, new introduction by Mark E. Neeley, Jr. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881; New York: Da Capo Press, 1995), p. 173.
“a terrible…ferocious warriors”: Entry for August 1861, in Adam Gurowski, Diary from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862. Burt Franklin: Research & Source Works #229 (Boston, 1862; New York: Burt Franklin, 1968), pp. 78–79.
“Foreigners…drive them off”: EB to James O. Broadhead, July 13, 1861, James Overton Broadhead Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. [hereafter Broadhead Papers, MoSHi].
troop strengths: Rawley, Turning Points of the Civil War, p. 54.
On June 29…approved McDowell’s plan: Nicolay, Outbreak of Rebellion, p. 173.
The Battle of Bull Run: Many battles of the Civil War came to be known by different names within the Union and the Confederacy. The first battle at Manassas Junction, for example, would be known as the Battle of Bull Run in the North and the Battle of Manassas in the South. As James M. McPherson explains, “In each case but one (Shiloh) the Confederates named the battle after the town that served as their base, while the Union forces chose the landmark nearest to the fighting or to their own lines, usually a river or stream.” In the case of Shiloh, the Confederates named the battle for a nearby church, McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 346 n7.
“roar of the artillery…grew intense”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 65.
“stop the roar in [her] ears”: EBL to SPL, July 21, 1861, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 65.
“an unusually heavy…this time to-morrow”: Entry for July 21, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 449.
In the crowded space…responsibilities: David Homer Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War, introduction by James A. Rawley (New York: Century Co., 1907; Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), p. 87.
and read aloud…“with joy”: NYT, July 22, 1861 (quote); NYT, July 26, 1861.
“There is Jackson…like a stone wall”: Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 85.
At 3 p.m.…fifteen-minute intervals: Entry for July 21, 1861, in Lincoln Day