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23. James G. Smart, ed., A Radical View: The “Agate” Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 1861–1865 (2 vols.; Memphis, 1976), 2: 166; William E. Parrish, Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union, 1861–1865 (Columbia, Mo., 1963), 186; Charles Hamlin to Sally Hamlin, June 9, 1864, Hannibal Hamlin Papers, University of Maine; Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions, 177–78, 191, 203–22.

24. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995), 505–6; Lincoln endorsement on John G. Nicolay to John Hay, June 5, 1864, ALP; Michael Burlingame, ed., An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay’s Interviews and Essays (Carbondale, Ill., 1996), 68; H. Draper Hunt, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln’s First Vice-President (Syracuse, 1969), 179–89; Smart, Radical View, 2: 171–72.

25. Chicago Tribune, February 24 and June 10, 1864; Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants (Urbana, Ill., 1998), 315.

26. Merrill, Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, 5: 207–8, 212; CG, 38th Congress, 1st Session, 3368; CW, 7: 418.

27. CG, 38th Congress, 1st Session, 2108, 3449; Herman Belz, Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy during the Civil War (Ithaca, 1969), 198–221; Michael Les Benedict, A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863–1869 (New York, 1974), 79–81.

28. Burlingame and Ettlinger, Inside Lincoln’s White House, 217–18; Belz, Reconstructing the Union, 226–27; CW, 7: 433–34; Harold M. Hyman, ed., The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861–1870 (Indianapolis, 1967), 144–46; Harper’s Weekly, August 20, 1864; Hans L. Trefousse, Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio (New York, 1963), 220–24; Benedict, Compromise, 74–76.

29. CG, 38th Congress, 1st Session, 2104; WD, 2: 98.

30. Flood, 1864, 99–116, 247; William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (New York, 2008), 373.

31. Harper’s Weekly, May 28, 1864; Martin F. Conway to Lincoln, July 22, 1864, ALP.

32. William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months (Cambridge, Mass., 2004), 107; James F. Jaquess to James A. Garfield, May 19, 1863, ALP; CW, 6: 330–31.

33. Horace Greeley to Lincoln, July 7 and 13, 1864, ALP; CW, 7: 451; Edward C. Kirkland, The Peacemakers of 1864 (New York, 1927), 65–84.

34. James R. Gilmore, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War (Boston, 1898), 232–47, 261–73.

35. Chicago Tribune, August 10, 1864; James M. McPherson, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (New York, 2008), 238; New York Times, July 23, 1864; Horace Greeley to Lincoln, August 8 and 29, 1864; Greeley to John G. Nicolay, September 4, 1864, all in ALP.

36. Long, Jewel of Liberty, 193; Charles D. Robinson to Lincoln, August 7, 1864, ALP.

37. CW, 7: 499–500.

38. CW, 7: 506–8.

39. Philip S. Foner, ed., The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (5 vols.; New York, 1950–75), 3: 405–7, 422–24; Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford, 1882), 434–35; James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (New York, 2007), 229–30.

40. Thurlow Weed to William H. Seward, August 22, 1864; Henry J. Raymond to Lincoln, August 22, 1864, both in ALP; Henry J. Raymond to Simon Cameron, August 21, 1864, Simon Cameron Papers, LC.

41. CW, 7: 514.

42. Harris, Lincoln’s Last Months, 15–16; CW, 7: 517–18; Michael Burlingame, ed., With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865 (Carbondale, Ill., 2000), 152–53; Glyndon G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (New York, 1967), 386–87.

43. New York Times, December 17, 1864; CW, 6: 410–11; 7: 51.

44. Noah Brooks to John G. Nicolay, September 2, 1864, ALP; Joel H. Silbey, A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860–1868 (New York, 1977), 119–67; Long, Jewel of Liberty, 276–83; General McClellan’s Letter of Acceptance, Together with His West Point Oration (New York, 1864), 1–2.

45. Frank Freidel, Francis