Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [572]
Frank Blair…General Nathaniel Lyon: Snead, “The First Year of the War in Missouri,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Pt. 1, pp. 264–68; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 39; “Missouri for the Union,” in Parrish, Frank Blair.
“thickly veiled”…revolvers: Snead, “The First Year of the War in Missouri,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, Pt. 1, p. 265 (quote); see also Franklin A. Dick, “Memorandum of Matters in Missouri,” Papers ofF. A. Dick, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
the “earnest solicitation”: Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 123.
“He is just…eminently practical”: “Editorial, 3 August 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln’s Journalist, p. 84.
“There was…magical influence”: Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, Vol. II, p. 162.
“recklessness in expenditures”: JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Tales circulated…unwanted visitors: Ibid.; FB to Governor Dennison, September 19, 1861, quoted in Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 79–80.
Frémont…had chosen to stay: Lorenzo Thomas to Simon Cameron, October 21, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, p. 543; Parrish, Frank Blair, p. 116.
General Lyon’s death…devastating defeat: Entries for August 10 and September 20, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 107, 120.
Frémont issued a bold proclamation…“declared freemen”: Proclamation of John C. Frémont, August 30, 1861, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. III, pp. 466–67 (quotes p. 467).
far exceeded…their future status: Joseph Holt to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln learned of…a private letter to Frémont: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, pp. 416, 417–18.
unilaterally recast…war against slavery: Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962; repr. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990), p. 71.
has “anxiety…so as to conform”: AL to John C. Frémont, September 2, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 506.
“Fremont’s proclamation…future condition”: AL to Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861, in ibid., p. 531.
“The trouble…only to himself”: Carpenter, “A Day with Governor Seward,” Seward Papers.
“unable to eat…on such a principle”: Joshua Speed to AL, September 3, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“I know that you…to the very foundations”: FB to MB, September 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
he himself had reluctantly concluded: Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 48–49.
“but being…public interests”: MB to AL, September 4, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
General Meigs and Montgomery Blair…“look into the affair”: JGN, memorandum of September 17, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers; entry for September 10 to September 18, 1861, extracts from diary of Montgomery C. Meigs, container 13, Nicolay Papers.
Jessie…arrived in Washington: “The Lincoln Interview: Excerpt from ‘Great Events,’” in The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont, ed. Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), pp. 264–65.
“If I were…I did not do so”: John C. Frémont to AL, September 8, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“You are quite a female politician”: “The Lincoln Interview,” Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont, p. 266.
“taxed me…for himself”: Entry for December 9, 1863, in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 123.
she asked Lincoln…when he was ready: “The Lincoln Interview,” Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont, p. 266.
Lincoln wrote…“an open order”: AL to John C. Frémont, September 11, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 517–18.
he sent it to be mailed: Jessie Benton Frémont to AL, September 12, 1861, in Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont, p. 271 n1.
“He had always…now very angry”: “The Lincoln Interview,” Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont, p. 267.
the elder Blair revealed: Jessie B. Frémont to AL, September 12, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
“examine into that Department”: AL to Jessie B. Frémont, September 12, 1861, draft copy, Lincoln Papers.
“threatened the old man…from responsibility”: MB to W. O. Barlett,