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Harper’s Weekly, March 22, 1862; Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1862; New York Tribune, March 7, 1862; Baltimore Sun, March 8, 1862; Winfield Scott to William H. Seward, March 8, 1862, ALP; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1149, 1179, 1198, 1496, 1815–18; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, March 22, 1862.

67. Irving H. Bartlett, ed., “New Light on Wendell Phillips: The Community of Reform,” Perspectives in American History, 12 (1979), 8; Fehrenbacher and Fehrenbacher, Recollected Words, 356.

68. McPherson, Political History, 210–11; New York Tribune, July 14, 1862.

69. Philip S. Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (5 vols.; New York, 1950–75), 3: 123; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1172, 1175, 2917; Harper’s Weekly, April 12, 1862; Francis S. Corkran to Montgomery Blair, May 20, 1862, ALP; New York Times, April 3, 1862.

70. Montgomery Blair to Lincoln, March 5, [1862], ALP; Wagandt, Mighty Revolution, 62; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1359.

71. Liberator, March 28, 1862.

72. Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 409; Robert Harrison, “An Experimental Station for Lawmaking: Congress and the District of Columbia, 1862–1878,” CWH, 53 (March 2007), 32; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1191, 1300, 1523, 1526.

73. CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1191, 1266, 1300–1301, 1333–34, 1359, 1492, 1520–23; Curry, Blueprint, 39–41.

74. CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1336; John W. Crisfield to Mary Crisfield, April 25, 1862, John W. Crisfield Papers, Maryland Historical Society; BD, 1: 541; CW, 5: 169, 192; Nevins and Thomas, Diary of George Templeton Strong, 3: 216–17.

75. Michael J. Kurtz, “Emancipation in the Federal City,” CWH, 24 (September 1978), 256; Independent, June 26, 1862; Daniel R. Goodloe, “Emancipation in the District of Columbia,” South-Atlantic, 6 (1880), 245–70; Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time (New York, 1895), 201; Washington Star in New York Times, December 27, 1887.

76. African Repository, 38 (August 1862), 243; Harrison, “Experimental Station,” 33; Burlingame, Dispatches, 78.

77. Annapolis Gazette in Easton Gazette (Maryland), May 10, 1862; Charles B. Calvert to Lincoln, May 6, 1862; John H. Bayne to Lincoln, July 3, 1862, both in ALP; Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847–1865, ed. Dorothy Lamon (Chicago, 1895), 249–54; Henry G. Pearson, James Wadsworth of Genesco (New York, 1913), 134–40; Wagandt, Mighty Revolution, 119–20.

78. CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 2623, 2231.

79. Roger N. Buckley, Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795–1815 (New Haven, 1979); Christopher L. Brown and Philip D. Morgan, eds., Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (New Haven, 2006); Berry, Military Necessity, 29–33; Jonathan Brigham, James Harlan (Iowa City, 1913), 170; Salter, Life of James W. Grimes, 196; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 2971; James G. Smart, ed., A Radical View: The “Agate” Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 1861–1865 (2 vols.; Memphis, 1976), 2: 71–72.

80. New York Herald, December 10, 1861; New York Times, February 24, 1862; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 18, 2243; appendix, 194; Hamilton, Limits of Sovereignty, 7–9; Siddali, From Property to Person, 139–41.

81. CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 1137, 2917–20, 2929, 2999; Jason Marsh to Trumbull, May 26, 1862, LTP.

82. Arnold, History of Abraham Lincoln, 259–60; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 2042–44, 2068, 2618.

83. Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Population of the United States in 1860 (Washington, D.C., 1864), 557, 575; John A. Clark to Elihu B. Washburne, December 8, 1861, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, LC; CG, 37th Congress, 2nd Session, 2527.

84. William Aikman, The Future of the Colored Race in America (New York, 1862), 10. This essay originally appeared in the Presbyterian Quarterly Review for July 1862, and subsequently in pamphlet form.

85. George B. McClellan to Samuel L. M. Barlow, November 8, 1861, Barlow Papers, HL; Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln, 97–98.


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1. Edward A. Miller, Lincoln’s Abolitionist General: The Biography of David Hunter (Columbia, S.C., 1997), 96–104;

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