Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [601]
Vallandigham was removed…escaped to Canada: McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 597.
Stanton revoked…to suppress newspapers: EMS to Ambrose E. Burnside, June 1, 1863, in OR, Ser. 2, Vol. V, p. 724; General Orders, No. 91, Headquarters, Department of the Ohio, June 4, 1863, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXIII, Part II, p. 386.
“suppress the…of its citizens”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 156–57.
Upon hearing…opposed his action: Ambrose E. Burnside to AL, May 29, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln not only refused…“through with it”: AL to Ambrose E. Burnside, May 29, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 237.
“Often an idea…from every side”: James F. Wilson recollections, quoted in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. II (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1936; 1939), p. 308.
“It has vigor and ability”: Entry of June 5, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 323.
“we are Struggling…in Rhetoric”: MB to AL, June 6, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
The finished letter…“if he shall desert”: AL to Erastus Corning and Others, [June 12,] 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 260–69 (quotes pp. 264, 266–67).
“It is full…and conclusive”: NYT, June 15, 1863.
Edward Everett…“the step complete”: Edward Everett to AL, June 16, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
“It is a grand document…every citizen”: “The President’s Letter,” June 15, 1863, in William O. Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), p. 160.
Printed in a great variety…10 million people: Donald, Lincoln, pp. 443–44.
Welles noted…“assistant is present”: Entry for June 2, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 319–20 (quote p. 320).
Blair, frustrated…word with Lincoln: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 387; entry for May 12, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 292.
“At such a time…interchange of views”: Entry for June 30, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 351.
“There is now…consent of the members”: Entry for May 16, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, pp. 292–93.
“But how idle…furnish the means”: SPC to David Dudley Field, June 30, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
If he were president…“of importance”: SPC to James A. Garfield, May 31, 1863, reel 12, Papers of James A. Garfield, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Garfield Papers, DLC].
Blair decried…of Seward and Stanton: Entry for June 23, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 340.
Lincoln’s unwillingness…restore McClellan: Entry for June 26, 1863, ibid., p. 345.
In Blair’s mind…“throat if he could”: “19 July 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 65.
Blair’s hatred for Stanton…military information: Entry for June 30, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 352.
“Strange, strange…Stanton and Seward”: Entry for June 15, 1863, ibid., p. 329.
Recognizing Blair’s desire…to get through: For a description of Blair’s innovations with the postal service, see chapter 31 of Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 90–111.
catch up with his “Neptune”…telegraph office: Entry for July 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 370.
When he felt compelled…“admirable success”: AL to GW, July 25, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 349.
A particularly bitter…“be very mad”: AL, quoted in entry for May 26, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 313.
the humorist Orpheus Kerr…“as regards myself”: Entry for June 17, 1863, ibid., p. 333.
William Rosecrans…“to do hastily”: AL to William S. Rosecrans, May 20, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 224.
felt compelled to remove General Samuel Curtis…“faithful, and patriotic”: AL to Samuel R. Curtis, June 8, 1863, in ibid., p. 253.
a note from Governor Gamble…“grossly offensive”: Hamilton R. Gamble to AL, July 13, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
was told “to put it away”: “23 July 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 66.
“trying to preserve…should offend you”: AL to Hamilton R. Gamble, July 23, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
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