Lincoln and the Civil War

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135 Notes Introduction 1. Hanchett, Out of the Wilderness: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 60. 2. Beauregard, “The First Battle of Bull Run,” Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vols.: New York: Century, 1887–88), 1:222. 3. Rhodes, Lectures on the American Civil War (New York: Macmillan, 1913), 99. 4. Randall, “Abraham Lincoln,” Dictionary of American Biography, 11:258. 5. Potter, “Jefferson Davis and the Political Factors in Confederate Defeat ,” in Why the North Won the Civil War, ed. David Donald (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960), 111. 6. McPherson, “American Victory, American Defeat,” in Why the Confederacy Lost, ed. Gabor S. Boritt (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 37. 7. Leonard Swett to William H. Herndon, Chicago, 17 January 1866, in Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln, ed. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 165. Hereafter cited as HI. 8. Lincoln to James M. Cutts, Washington, 26 October 1863, Roy P. Basler et al., eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols. plus index; New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953–55), 6:538. Hereafter cited as CWL. 9. CWL, 8:101. 10. On Lincoln’s cruel streak, see Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1994), 149–55. 11. CWL, 3:511, 4:67. 12. See Daniel J. Levinson et al., The Seasons of a Man’s Life (New York: Knopf, 1978). 13. CWL, 2:382–83. 14. John G. Nicolay, “Abraham Lincoln,” speech of 14 April 1894, Nicolay MSS, Library of Congress. 15. Our Constitution (Urbana), 4 July 1857. 16. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, Springfield, 7, 10 January 1886, HerndonWeik MSS, LC. 17. Notes for a law lecture, Roy P. Basler, ed., Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, First Supplement (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974), 18. 18. Herndon to Jesse W. Weik, [Springfield], 15 December 1886, HerndonWeik MSS, LC. 136 | notes to pages 7–10 19. Herndon, “Facts Illustrative of Mr. Lincoln’s Patriotism and Statesmanship ,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 3 (1944–45): 188–89. 20. Speed to Herndon, Louisville, 7 February 1866, HI, 197. 21. Lincoln to John D. Johnston, Springfield, 12 January 1851, CWL, 2:97. 22. Emerson, journal entry for 31 January 1862, Louis P. Masur, ed., The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Selections from Writers during the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 127. 23. Herndon, “Lincoln Individually,” Herndon-Weik MSS, LC. 24. Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California : Two Lectures (Louisville: J. P. Morton, 1884), 34. 25. Speed to Herndon, Louisville, 6 December 1866, HI, 499. 26. Nathan M. Knapp to O. M. Hatch, Winchester, Illinois, 12 May 1859, Hatch MSS, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois. Hereafter cited as ALPLM. 27. John H. Littlefield, “Recollections of One Who Studied Law with Lincoln,” William Hayes Ward, ed., Abraham Lincoln, Tributes from His Associates: Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen, and Citizens (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895), 204–5. 28. Francis Grierson, The Valley of Shadows: Recollections of the Lincoln Country, 1858–1863 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), 200. 29. A document in Gillespie’s MSS, quoted in Josephine G. Pricket, “Joseph Gillespie,” Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1912 (publication no. 17 of the Illinois State Historical Library), 108. 30. Henry C. Whitney, “Abraham Lincoln: A Study from Life,” Arena 19 (1898): 466. 31. Swisshelm in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of HisTime (New York: North American, 1886), 413. 32. E. J. Edwards, quoting the conductor, Gilbert Finch, then retired and residing in Connecticut, New York Times, 24 January 1909. 33. Noah Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, July 1865, in Michael Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 211. 34. Undated statement by a Dr. Parker, in John G. Nicolay’s hand, NicolayHay MSS, ALPLM. 35. Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), 69 (entry for 31 July 1863). Hereafter cited as JHD. 36. James Russell Lowell, “Abraham Lincoln,” The Writings of James Russell Lowell (12 vols.; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890–92), 5:208. [3.129.249.105] Project MUSE (2024...