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Weekly, August 8, 1863; Edwin M. Stanton to Lincoln, February 8, 1864, ALP; Donald Yacovone, ed., A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens (Urbana, Ill., 1997), 240.

8. CW, 6: 374; Ulysses S. Grant to Lincoln, July 23, 1863, ALP; Harper’s Weekly, February 21, 1863; John Y. Simon, ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Carbondale, Ill., 1967–), 8, 94n.

9. Steven V. Ash, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860–1870: War and Peace in the Upper South (Baton Rouge, 1988), 111–13; James M. McPherson, What They Fought For, 1861–1865 (Baton Rouge, 1994), 30, 57–67; Chandra Manning, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York, 2007), 12–13, 83–85, 95, 115–16; Frank L. Byrne and Jean P. Soman, eds., Your True Marcus: The Civil War Letters of a Jewish Colonel (Kent, Ohio, 1985), 315–16; CG, 38th Congress, 1st Session, 404.

10. Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 (New York, 1982–), ser. 1, 1: 96; ser. 2, 1–15, 116–26, 185, 191–97; OR, ser. 3, 3: 860–61; Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (New York, 1962), 161–66; Thomas E. Bramlette to Lincoln, February 1 and March 8, 1864, ALP; John David Smith, “The Recruitment of Negro Soldiers in Kentucky, 1863–1865,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 72 (October 1974), 364–90.

11. Brownson’s Quarterly Review, National Series, 1 (January 1864), 105; Berlin et al., Freedom, ser. 2: 1, 40, 303–12, 483–87; Drew G. Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (New York, 2007), 45; George S. Burkhardt, Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War (Carbondale, Ill., 2007), 1–2; OR, ser. 2, 4: 954; 6: 21–22.

12. Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1864; Berlin et al., Freedom, ser. 2, 28–29, 362–68, 401–2, 433–42, 611–13; Pearson, Life of John A. Andrew, 2: 98–117; Christian Recorder, April 16, 1864; H. O. Wagoner to Elihu B. Washburne, November 29, 1863, Elihu B. Washburne Papers, LC; Harper’s Weekly, September 5, 1863; CG, 38th Congress, 1st Session, 2851.

13. Francis G. Shaw to Lincoln, July 31, 1863, ALP; Berlin et al., Freedom, ser. 2: 582–83; CW, 6: 357.

14. James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (New York, 2007), 211–14; Douglass’ Monthly, 5 (August 1863), 849. Douglass offered various accounts of the meeting: Liberator, August 10, 1863; Proceedings of the American Antislavery Society at Its Third Decade (New York, 1864), 116–17; Allen T. Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (New York, 1888), 185–88; Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford, 1882), 347–50.

15. Burkhardt, Confederate Rage, 78–79, 109–10, 119–27; CW, 7: 302–3; James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (New York, 2008), 247–48; CG, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, 24; Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1865.

16. CW, 2: 10; 7: 281, 499; Roy F. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: First Supplement, 1832–1865 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1974), 243; Michael Burlingame, ed., Dispatches from Lincoln’s White House: The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard (Lincoln, Neb., 2002), 167.

17. Robert Dale Owen, The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation and the Future of the African Race in the United States (Philadelphia, 1864), 196–97; Adrian Cook, The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 (Lexington, Ky., 1974); New York Times, March 7, 1864; Washington Daily Morning Chronicle, September 2, 1863; Yacovone, Voice of Thunder, 160; Francis Lieber to Charles Sumner, March 6, 1864, Charles Sumner Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

18. Rice, Reminiscences, 193; John Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen (New York, 1907), 175–76.

19. Harold Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860–1861 (New York, 2008), 118; CW, 7: 542–43; 8: 272; Edmund Kelly to Lincoln, August 21, 1863; American Baptist Missionary

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