a "frank, guileless...for the first one": Leonard Swett to WHH, January 17, 1866, in HI, pp. 168, 164.
After criticizing..."So I still work on": SPC to James Watson Webb, November 7, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
"all along clearly...from New Orleans": AL, quoted in "18 October 1863, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 93.
"Chase would try...spot he can find": "29 October 1863, Thursday," in ibid., p. 103.
the people of Missouri...extinguish slavery: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 499504; Foner, Reconstruction, pp. 4142.
Governor Gamble worried...a conservative partisan: Hamilton R. Gamble to AL, October 1, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
He was accused...guise of military necessity: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 500; "Conversation with Hon. M. S. Wilkinson, May 22 1876," in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 5960; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 299.
a delegation of radicals..."not to alienate them": "29 September 1863, Tuesday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, pp. 8889 (quote); Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, p. 299.
"these Radical men...side with the Radicals": AL, paraphrased in "10 December 1863, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 125.
"they are nearer...set Zionwards": AL, quoted in "28 October 1863, Wednesday," in ibid., p. 101.
resented the radicals" demand..."short statutes of limitations": "10 December 1863, Thursday," in ibid., p. 125.
"So intense and fierce...saddest features of the times": Entry for September 29, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 448.
"show that...powerful as they may be": AL, quoted in "29 September 1863, Tuesday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, pp. 8889.
an invitation to spend the evening: EB to J. O. Broadhead, October 24, 1863, Broadhead Papers, MoSHi.
"surprised and mortified...as traitors": EB to Hamilton R. Gamble, October 10, 1863, Bates Papers, MoSHi (quote); entry for September 30, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 308.
Bates should hardly be...if he were to decide to run against Lincoln: Hamilton R. Gamble to EB, October 17, 1863, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
meeting with the Missourians..."instead of wind": "30 September 1863, Wednesday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 89.
Lincoln listened attentively...remove him from command: AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 500 (quotes), 503.
"The President never...his candid logic": "30 September 1863, Wednesday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, pp. 8990.
Lincoln emerged..."as he supposed": Entry for September 30, 1863, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 308.
"whoever commands...or conservatives": AL to Charles D. Drake and Others, October 5, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 504.
he wrote to remind..."injury to the Military": AL to John M. Schofield, October 1, 1863, in ibid., p. 492.
leaning toward..."conflicting elements": "13 December 1863, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 127.
he decided to replace him with Rosecrans: "Rosecrans, William Starke (18191898)," and "Schofield, John McAllister (18311906)," in Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Union, pp. 342, 355.
Before an overflowing crowd...Jefferson Davis himself: Speech by Frank Blair, reprinted in Missouri Republican, St. Louis, September 27, 1863.
The Liberator criticized..."which he advocates": Roxbury Journal, quoted in Liberator, October 16, 1863.
"not let even...share of his resentment": EBL to SPL, [October 24, 1863], in Wartime Washington, ed. Laas, p. 316.
He wrote a letter to Monty..."skill and usefulness": AL to MB, November 2, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 555.
a gentle letter of reprimand..."would not cure the bite": AL to James M. Cutts, Jr., October 26, 1863, in ibid., p. 538, and note.
Chase again intervened...eligibility to vote: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 339.
voiced his opposition at Rockville: Speech of Montgomery Blair, reprinted in the Star, October 5, 1863.
it aroused deep hostility...Blair from his cabinet: Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, Vol. II, pp. 24143, 248; Williams, Lincoln and the Radicals, pp. 298, 303.
Lincoln refused to support..."against him": "22 October 1863, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 97.
Noah Brooks attended a ma.s.s rally..."utterances": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, pp. 24648.
Chase was a featured...his "fossil theories": Ibid., pp. 24749.
Chase was elated..."a Cardinal principle": SPC to Horace Greeley, October 31, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
Worried that Lincoln"s..."were producing logical results": Leonard Swett to WHH, January 17, 1866, in HI, pp. 16465.
"the most truly progressive...struggles with them": John W. Forney, quoted in "31 December 1863, Thursday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 135.
CHAPTER 22: "STILL IN WILD WATER"
Lincoln was visibly unsettled...his presidential race: Entry for October 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 470.
Civil liberties was also...inst.i.tuted conscription: William C. Davis, Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Free Press, 2002), pp. 17476, 226.
Toombs accused..."tide of despotism": Burton J. Hendrick, Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet (New York: Literary Guild of America, 1939), p. 417.
concerned about Ohio: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, pp. 1415.
Lincoln was disheartened..."to the country": Entry for October 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 470.
In Pennsylvania..."of the United States": McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 685.
the Woodward campaign..."voice & my vote": GBM to Charles J. Biddle, October 12, 1863, in Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, p. 559.
took steps to ensure...return home to vote: Waugh, Reelecting Lincoln, p. 16.
If the president granted...Union ticket: SPC, "Going Home to Vote," p. 22; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 336.
the journalist Whitelaw Reid: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 336; Hendrick, Lincoln"s War Cabinet, p. 401.