Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [627]
“The loss is…is unrelieved[?]”: MB to R. A. Sloane, July 21, 1864, reel 22, Blair Family Papers, DLC.
“The month of August”…throughout the North: Brooks, Lincoln Observed, Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, ed. Michael Burlingame (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. 129.
mid-July call for five hundred thousand additional volunteers: NYT, July 19, 1864.
“dissatisfaction…with the colors flying”: Ibid.
An ingenious attempt: See Dorothy L. Drinkard, “Crater, Battle of the (30 July 1864),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 517; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 758–60.
“Piled on top…frightened sheep”: Brooks, Lincoln Observed, p. 130.
“It was the saddest…again to have”: USG to Henry W. Halleck, August 1, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XL, Part I, p. 17.
“less however from the result…of the future”: Entry for August 2, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 92.
he admitted feeling…“of our generals”: Entry for August 1, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 392.
he met with Grant at Fort Monroe: NYH, August 3, 1864.
dispatched General Philip Sheridan…“troops go also”: USG to Henry W. Halleck, August 1, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXXVII, Part II, p. 558.
“This, I think, is exactly right”: AL to USG, August 3, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 476.
“a long and very pleasant…both in time”: Benjamin B. French to Henry F. French, August 9, 1864, typescript copy, reel 10, French Family Papers, DLC.
“much wretchedness…in the land”: Entry for August 4, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 93.
“The People are wild for Peace”: TW to WHS, August 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“two Ambassadors…for a peace”: William C. Jewett to Horace Greeley, July 5, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Urging the president…“doing great harm”: Horace Greeley to AL, July 7, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
commissioned Horace Greeley…escort them to Washington: AL to Horace Greeley, July 9, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 435.
dispatched John Hay to join Greeley: “[ca. 21 July 1864],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 224–25; “[after 22 July 1864],” in ibid., p. 228; entry for July 18, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 273.
“To Whom it may concern…collateral points”: AL, “To Whom It May Concern,” July 18, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 451.
the two envoys…to stop the war: “[after 22 July 1864],” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 228.
He hoped the failed mission…of freeing the slaves: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 176; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IX, pp. 193–94.
“are told…an impossibility”: TW to WHS, August 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Swett felt compelled…situation was hopeless: Leonard Swett to his wife, September 8, 1864, quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II (—: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900), p. 202.
were mystified…“his Cabinet”: Entry of August 17, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 109.
“I am in active…of the Constitution”: Henry J. Raymond to AL, August 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
“I confess that I…prosperity to the country”: “The Interview between Thad Stevens & Mr. Lincoln as related by Col R. M. Hoe,” compiled by JGN, container 10, Nicolay Papers.
asked all cabinet members…a successful conclusion: “11 November 1864, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 247–48.
“This morning…possibly save it afterwards”: AL, “Memorandum Concerning His Probable Failure of Re-election,” August 23, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 514.
“was considering”…would lend his hand: Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 173–75 (quotes pp. 173, 175).
Douglass met with…“within our boundaries”: Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pp. 796–97.
Douglass promised to confer: Frederick Douglass to AL, August 29, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Randall had hand-delivered…“Democrats may stand”: Charles D. Robinson to AL, August