Part 108 (1/2)
”the symbolism of Federal authority”: Draper and Rosenbloom, ”Secession C: Fort Sumter,” p. 11.
under the heading of ”For Foreign Nations”: Norman B. Ferris, ”Lincoln and Seward in Civil War Diplomacy: Their Relations.h.i.+p at the Outset Reexamined,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation 12 (1991), pp. 2526.
”that there was no...the ruling party”: WHS, quoted by Rudolf Schleiden, quoted in Richard N. Current, ”Comment,” JALA (1991), p. 45.
”whatever policy...a.s.sume responsibility”: WHS to AL, ”Some thoughts for the President's consideration,” April 1, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
”had Mr. Lincoln...the whole affair”: Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 186, 187.
dashed off a reply...to respond in person: Donald, Lincoln, p. 290.
”without a policy...I must do it”: AL to WHS, April 1, 1861, in CW, IV, pp. 31617.
”to put down...this thing through”: Entry for March 31, 1861, private journal of Montgomery Meigs (copy), container 13, Nicolay Papers.
”fit out the Powhatan...she is fitting out”: AL to Andrew H. Foote, April 1, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 314.
three hundred sailors: Fox to MB, April 17, 1861, in Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, p. 33; ”Result of G.V. Fox's Plan for Reinforcing Fort Sumpter; In His Own Writing,” reprinted in ibid., p. 39.
a.s.signed the Powhatan simultaneously to both Pickens and Sumpter: ”Result of G.V. Fox's Plan for Reinforcing Fort Sumpter” p. 40; Fox to his wife [Virginia Woodbury Fox], May 2, 1861, ibid., pp. 4243.
”Your father says...put my name?”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 148.
”leave New York...disposing of your force”: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 2223.
”I am directed...without further notice”: Simon Cameron to Robert S. Chew, April 6, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 323.
Lincoln had devised a means: Don E. Fehrenbacher, ”Lincoln's Wartime Leaders.h.i.+p: The First Hundred Days,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation 9 (1987), esp. p. 7.
”embarra.s.sed by...errors imputed to them”: Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 2325.
Porter had already set sail...had priority: Hoogenboom, ”Gustavus Fox and the Relief of Fort Sumter,” CWH (1963), p. 392.
Fox reached Charleston...futilely searching: Fox to MB, April 17, 1861, in Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, p. 32.
At 3:30 a.m.... in one hour: James Chesnut, Jr., and Stephen D. Lee to Robert Anderson, April 12, 1861, enclosure 5 of Robert Anderson to Lorenzo Thomas, April 19, 1861, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. I, p. 14.
Anderson's small garrison...”fighting launches”: Fox to MB, April 17, 1861, in Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, pp. 3234 (quote p. 33).