"When men like...such an army": "30 April 1861, Tuesday," in ibid., p. 14.
"the first, the only...lodgment there": Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.
"Do you remember...such in life": William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.
"accustomed to...be antic.i.p.ated": Entry for November 11, 1868, KCS diary, Sprague Papers.
Nettie Chase told Kate...would marry: KCS to Janet Chase Hoyt, September 29, 1861, reel 17, Chase Papers.
Elmer Ellsworth: Brian D. McKnight, "Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 647: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 92.
wrote a personal note of condolence: AL to Ephrain D. and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 38586.
"quite unable...out of my eyes": JGN to TB, May 25, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
Mary was presented...packed away: Bayne, Tad Lincoln"s Father, p. 39.
a resolution...belligerent status: Entry for May 6, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 7071; Norman A. Graebner, "Northern Diplomacy and European Neutrality," in Why the North Won the Civil War, ed. David Donald (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960; New York and London: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1962), p. 60.
"younger branch...is too late": WHS to FAS, May 17, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, pp. 57576.
"G.o.d d.a.m.n "em, I"ll give "em h.e.l.l": Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 298.
On May 21...two wars at once: Jay Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1945), p. 114; Allen Thorndike Rice, "A Famous Diplomatic Dispatch," North American Review 142 (April 1886), pp. 40211.
"surprised and grieved...she has a natural claim": AL, "Revision of William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams," May 21, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 37778, 379 n14, 380.
the basis for a hard-line policy: Todd Anthony Rosa, "Diplomacy, U.S.A." in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 602.
"currency to Southern bonds": WHS to TW, May 23, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 576.
"the ablest American"...his country"s position: Rice, "A Famous Diplomatic Dispatch," NAR 142 (1886), pp. 4023, 404 (quote).
"It is due to...every day": WHS to FAS, May 17, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 575.
"Executive skill...a.s.siduous cooperation": WHS to FAS, June 5, 1861, quoted in ibid., p. 590.
"to his chief...personal attachment": Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, p. 449.
"a brilliant a.s.semblage...twenty years more": NYT, May 22, 1861.
forced to rely on government loans: Blue, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 14346.
functions...belonged to the War Department: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 25354; Bradley, Simon Cameron, pp. 17778.
"the princ.i.p.al charge...regiments in Tennessee": SPC to Trowbridge, March 21, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.
"The President...half-consciousness": NYT, April 23, 1861, enclosed with SPC to AL, April 25, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"has too much truth in it": SPC to AL, April 25, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
"Oh, it was a terrible time...no anything": NYT, June 3, 1878.
weapons in short supply...messengers, and watchmen: A. Howard Meneely, The War Department, 1861: A Study in Mobilization and Administration (New York: Columbia University Press, 1928), pp. 2526, 10611.
"I was...to be envied": NYT, June 3, 1878.
"so large...without compensation": AL, "To the Senate and House of Representatives," May 26, 1862, in CW, V, p. 242.
Alexander c.u.mmings: Bradley, Simon Cameron, pp. 19697.
"embargo" on..."so strict": NYT, June 22, 1861.
congressmen and senators..."President"s message": NYT, July 4, 1861.
Senator Orville Browning..."of the Country": Entry for July 3, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 475.
Jefferson had denounced: "From Time to Time: History of the State of the Union," The White House, www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/history.html (accessed July 2003); "History of the State of the Union," National Archives and Records Administration, (accessed July 2003).
had submitted their written messages: Entry for July 5, 1861, in Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 388.
"give the legal means...the government itself": AL, "Message to Congress in Special Session," July 4, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 426, 43132, 437, 438.
"In spite of...ma.s.ses of the people": NYT, July 7, 1861.
Congress responded...patriotic fervor: Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. IV, pp. 370, 37576, 38283.
"No mention is...of the rebellion": Dougla.s.s" Monthly (August 1861).
"We have an honest...to Seward": NYT, July 7, 1861.
Benjamin Butler...therefore contraband of war: Benjamin F. Butler to Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. II, pp. 64950; Edward L. Pierce, "The Contrabands at Fortress Monroe," Atlantic Monthly 8 (November 1861), pp. 62728.
"I will accept...resign your commission": Benjamin F. Butler, Butler"s Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler (Boston: A. M. Thayer & Co., 1892), p. 242.
Butler"s order...a confiscation law: Endors.e.m.e.nts by Winfield Scott and Simon Cameron, in Benjamin F. Butler to Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. II, p. 652; Simon Cameron to Benjamin F. Butler, May 30, 1861, container 5, Papers of Benjamin F. Butler, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Butler Papers]; John Syrett, "Confiscation Acts (6 August 1861 and 17 July 1862)," in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 47779.
"You were right...this new doctrine": MB to Benjamin F. Butler, May 29, 1861, container 5, Butler Papers.
hundreds of courageous slaves: Pierce, "The Contrabands at Fortress Monroe," Atlantic Monthly (1861), pp. 628, 630.
Two weeks into...not to eliminate slavery: Entry for July 22, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 100.
"sword...slavery must die": John Lothrop Motley to his wife, June 23, 1861, in The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, Vol. I, ed. George William Curtis (New York: Harper & Bros., 1889), p. 390.
"Forward to Richmond!": NYTrib, June 26, 1861.
"the immediate movement...20th July": Entry for July 11, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 479.