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Wallace understood…prepared itself for attack: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 231.
“The battle lasted…superior numbers”: Seward, 9th N.Y. Artillery speech, 1912, Seward Papers, NRU.
Will’s horse…have been captured: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 244–45.
Seward spent a tense…he had not been captured: Letter to FAS, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, p. 233 (quote); Lew Wallace to Henry W. Halleck, July 9, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXXVII, Part II, p. 145.
“God be praised for the safety of our boy”: FAS to WHS, July 11, 1864, reel 114, Seward Papers.
“With the help…rejoining the forces”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1861–1872, pp. 231–32.
Falkland mansion…“top to bottom”: Mr. Turton, quoted in National Intelligencer, reprinted from the Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., July 16, 1864.
“blackened ruin”: EBL to SPL, August 5, 1864, quoted in note 2 of EBL to SPL, July 16, 1864, in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 405.
the soldiers scattered papers…“great frolic” on the lawn: EBL to SPL, July 16 and 31, [1864], in ibid., pp. 404, 413 (quotes).
“perfect saturnalia”: EBL to SPL, July 31, [1864], in ibid., p. 413.
Breckinridge made them…“side of the Mts.”: EBL to SPL, July 16 and 31, [1864], in ibid., pp. 404, 413 (quote).
He explained…“refuge & of rest”: EBL to SPL, July 16, [1864], in ibid., p. 405.
“made more fuss…came back to us”: EBL to SPL, July 16, [1864], in ibid., pp. 404–05.
In his initial panic…during the crisis: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, pp. 319–20.
“all convalescents…and rifle-pits”: Henry W. Halleck to George Cadwalader, July 9, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXXVII, Part II, p. 153.
“in a pleasant and confident humor”: “12 July 1864, Tuesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 222.
“in the least concerned…force in our front”: “11 July 1864, Monday,” in ibid., p. 221.
“exhibits none…on former occasions”: Entry for July 11, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 72.
drove together…“were not frightened”: Entry for July 11, 1864, Taft diary.
allowing the residents of Washington…“troops to the south”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 246.
“Before even the first…direction of Washington”: Jubal A. Early, “The Advance on Washington in 1864. Letter from General J. A. Early,” Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. IX, January–December 1881 (Richmond, Va.: Southern Historical Society; Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfood Publishing Co., Morningside Bookshop, 1990), p. 306.
“to be exceedingly…impregnable”: Jubal Anderson Early, War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States, ed. Frank E. Vandiver. Civil War Centennial Series (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 390.
at Fort Stevens: Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington, 1864 (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co. of America, 1989), pp. 117–55.
“The President evinced…standing upon it”: Cramer, Lincoln Under Enemy Fire, p. 30.
“Get down”…unusual incident: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., quoted in ibid., p. 22.
“was exciting and wild…to have occurred”: Entry for July 12, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 75–76.
“an egregious blunder”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (New York: Collier Books, 1963), p. 205.
Welles knew…appeared “contemptible”: Entry for July 13, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 76.
“Mrs. Lincoln…away as they did!”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 301–02 (quote p. 302).
“I am informed…dismissed from the cabinet”: Henry W. Halleck to EMS, July 13, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“Whether the remarks…shall be dismissed”: EMS to AL, July 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers; AL to EMS, July 14, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 439–40 (quote).
“It would greatly pain…now or hereafter”: AL, “Memorandum Read to Cabinet,” [July 14?], 186[4], in CW, VII, p. 439.
Learning that Ben Butler…“civilians on either side”: MB to Benjamin F. Butler, August 10, 1864, in Private and