Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [607]
tour of upstate New York…picnic on the lake: Philip Van Doren Stern, When the Guns Roared: World Aspects of the American Civil War (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1965), p. 230; Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 186–87.
“All seemed…themselves very much”: FAS to Augustus Seward, August 27, 1863, reel 115, Seward Papers.
“When one comes really…to like in him”: Lord Lyons to Lord Russell, quoted in Stern, When the Guns Roared, p. 231.
“Hundreds of factories…and canals”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 186.
European shipbuilders…not be delivered: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 352–56, 361; entries for August 12, 29, September 18, 25, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 399, 429, 435–37, 443.
“The White House…health of the nation”: Dispatch of August 31, 1863, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House, p. 166.
CHAPTER 21: “I FEEL TROUBLE IN THE AIR”
180,000 soldiers…black males: Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (New York: Harper & Row, 1988; 1989), p. 8.
Emancipation Proclamation flatly declared…“United States”: AL, “Emancipation Proclamation,” January 1, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 30.
Stanton authorized…and other Northern states: Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 156; Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1956; 1987), p. 105.
the war would not be won…“suppressing the rebels”: Douglass’ Monthly (August 1862).
He wrote stirring appeals…many other cities: Blight, Frederick Douglass’ Civil War, pp. 157–59.
“Why should a colored…that claim respected”: Douglass’ Monthly (April 1863).
thousands of Bostonians…high-ranking military officials: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, May 28, 1863.
“No single regiment…admirable marching”: Ibid.
He urged Banks…the enlisting process: AL to Nathaniel P. Banks, March 29, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 154; AL to David Hunter, April 1, 1863, in ibid., p. 158; AL to USG, August 9, 1863, in ibid., p. 374.
“The colored population…rebellion at once”: AL to Andrew Johnson, March 26, 1863, in ibid., pp. 149–50.
Chase…“nearly two years ago”: SPC to James A. Garfield, May 31, 1863, reel 12, Garfield Papers, DLC.
a series of obstacles…losing their freedom or their lives: Benjamin Quarles, Frederick Douglass. Studies in American Negro Life Series (Associated Publishers, 1948; New York: Atheneum, 1970), pp. 209–10; Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, pp. 167, 169, 173–74, 177.
“this is no time…to embrace it”: Douglass’ Monthly (August 1863).
they earned great respect…“bravery and steadiness”: Cornish, The Sable Arm, pp. 142–43 (quote p. 143).
“dooming to death…negro troops”: NYTrib, reprinted in Liberator, May 15, 1863.
As word of the unique…swiftly diminishing: James M. McPherson, The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for Union (New York: Pantheon Books, 1965; New York: Ballantine Books, 1991), pp. 176, 179.
“What has Mr. Lincoln…responsible for them”: Douglass’ Monthly (August 1863).
“When I plead…rulers at Washington”: Frederick Douglass to Major G. L. Stearns, August 1, 1863, reprinted in ibid.
he asked Halleck…“placed at hard labor”: AL, “Order of Retaliation,” July 30, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 357.
The order was “well-written…became impossible”: Entry for August 4, 1863, in Gurowski, Diary from November 18, 1862 to October 18, 1863, pp. 292–93.
Douglass agreed…“required to act”: Douglass to Stearns, August 1, 1863, in Douglass’ Monthly (August 1863).
the lack of “fair play”…to the president: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pp. 784–85.
“tumult of feeling”: Frederick Douglass, quoted in the Washington Post, February 13, 1888.
“I could not know…an interview altogether”: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 785.
a large crowd in the hallway…into the office: Liberator, January 29, 1864; Philip S. Foner, Frederick Douglass (New York: Citadel Press, 1950; repr. 1964),