Notes - Abraham Lincoln - James M. McPherson

Abraham Lincoln - James M. McPherson (2009)

Notes

1. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9 vols. (New Brunswick, N.J., 1953-55), 2:97. Hereinafter CWOL.

2. Ibid., 320.

3. Ibid., 1:509-10.

4. Ibid., 74-75.

5. Ibid., 282.

6. Ibid., 229.

7. Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, ed. Paul M. Angle (New York, 1949), 304; Joshua Speed to William H. Herndon, Feb. 7, 1866, in Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln, eds. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (Urbana, Ill., 1998), 197.

8. CWOL, 1:282.

9. Jason Emerson, The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Carbondale, Ill., 2007).

10. Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, 270.

11. Quoted in Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York, 1952), 120.

12. Waldo W. Braden, Abraham Lincoln: Public Speaker (Baton Rouge, La., 1988), 35-36.

13. CWOL, 2:274.

14. Ibid., 4:67.

15. Ibid., 2:247-83.

16. Ibid., 461.

17. Ibid., 3:9-10.

18. Ibid., 145.

19. Ibid., 2:501, 3:16.

20. Ibid., 3:315, 2:92-93.

21. Ibid., 4:45.

22. Quoted in Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (New York, 2004), 113.

23. CWOL, 3:550.

24. Ibid., 4:24-25, 3:478. For the free-labor ideology, see Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (New York, 1970).

25. CWOL, 4:132-33, 135.

26. Ibid., 160.

27. Ibid., 150, 154, 172.

28. Ibid., 190.

29. Ibid., 262-71.

30. Quoted in James G. Randall, Lincoln the President, 4 vols. (New York, 1945-55), 1:326.

31. CWOL, 4:423.

32. Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, eds. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger (Carbondale, Ill., 1997), 20.

33. CWOL, 4:268, 7:23, 8:151.

34. Ibid., 5:185.

35. Ibid., 292.

36. War of the Rebellion … Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C. 1880-1901), series I, vol. 16, part 2:627. Hereinafter O.R.

37. William F. Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, 2 vols. (New York, 1933), 2:144.

38. CWOL, 6:38.

39. Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 29 vols. so far, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale, Ill., 1967-), 7:317.

40. Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, eds. Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher (Stanford, Calif., 1996), 292.

41. CWOL, 7:324.

42. Ibid., 5:98.

43. Inside Lincoln’s White House, 193.

44. Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 4 vols. (Boston, 1877-93), 4:114.

45. Ex parte Merryman, 17 Fed. Cas. 144.

46. CWOL, 5:421.

47. Ibid., 6:263, 266-67.

48. Ibid., 3:92, 7:281.

49. Ibid., 4:532.

50. Ibid., 5:388-89.

51. Gideon Welles, “The History of Emancipation,” The Galaxy, 14 (1872), 842-43.

52. CWOL, 5:433-36.

53. Ibid., 6:408-10.

54. Ibid., 7:281; Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1866), 76-77.

55. Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

56. CWOL, 7:451.

57. Ibid., 7:500, 506-7.

58. Ibid., 7:514.

59. Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States During the Great Rebellion, 2nd ed. (Washington, D.C., 1865), 419-20.

60. O.R., series I, vol. 38, part 5:577.

61. CWOL, 8:333.

62. David D. Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (New York, 1885), 294.

63. Ibid., 295; T. Morris Chester’s dispatches to the Philadelphia Press, in that newspaper April 11, 12, 1865.

64. CWOL, 8:399-405; “Impeachment of the President,” House Report #7, 40th Congress, 1st Session (1867), 674, quoted in William Hanchett, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (Urbana, Ill., 1983), 37.

65. CWOL, 5:537.

66. Ibid., 4:426.

67. Several contemporaries described this historic occasion. This account and Lincoln’s words are from Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State: A Memoir of His Life, with Selections from His Letters, 1861-1872 (New York, 1891), 151, and from Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, 87, 269-70.