Part 137 (1/2)

”caught my hand...'it is great!'”: Entry for July 7, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 364.

”The Father...to the sea”: AL to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863, CW, VI, p. 409.

”The rebel troops”...about thirty thousand: Charles A. Dana to EMS, July 5, 1863, reel 5, Stanton Papers, DLC.

”I write this now...and I was wrong”: AL to USG, July 13, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 326.

a large crowd...”the beginning of the end”: NYH, July 8, 1863.

the official bulletins were read...”beasts at sunrise”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 201.

Mary's carriage accident: Star, July 2, 1863; NYH, July 11, 1863; Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House, pp. 14344; Pinsker, Lincoln's Sanctuary, pp. 10204, 10506.

”never quite recovered...of her fall”: Robert Todd Lincoln, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 250.

”complete his work...destruction of Lee's army”: AL to Henry W. Halleck, [July 7, 1863], in CW, VI, p. 319.

both Halleck and Lincoln urged Meade: Henry W. Halleck to George G. Meade, July 8, 1863, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXVII, Part III, p. 605; note 1 of AL to Henry W. Halleck, [July 7, 1863], in CW, VI, p. 319.

Robert Lincoln later said...”his vindication”: ”[Robert Todd Lincoln's Reminiscences, Given 5 January 1885],” in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 8889.

he nonetheless failed to move...”anxious and impatient”: ”13 July 1863, Monday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 62.

he received a dispatch from Meade: ”14 July 1863, Tuesday,” in ibid., p. 62; Circular, Army of the Potomac, July 14, 1863, in OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XXVII, Part III, p. 690; Sauers, ”Gettysburg, Battle of,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 836.

Stanton was reluctant to share...president ”was not”: Entry for July 14, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 370.

Lincoln caught up...”and discouraged”: Entry for July 14, 1863, ibid., p. 371.

”Our Army held...we did not harvest it”: AL, quoted in ”19 July 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 6465.

his profound grat.i.tude...”never sent, or signed”: AL to George G. Meade, July 14, 1863, Lincoln Papers.

Meade's failure to attack...”I might run away”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 21920.

the draft: Samantha Jane Gaul, ”Conscription, U.S.A.,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 487.

Governor Seymour had told...the black man: Governor Horatio Seymour, quoted in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. VII (New York: Century Co., 1917), p. 17.

Daily News...”kill off Democrats”: New York Daily News, quoted in ibid., p. 18.

A provision in the Conscription Act: Gaul, ”Conscription, U.S.A.,” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 488.

”a rich man's war and a poor man's fight”: Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. II, p. 362.

the first day of the draft proceeded: NYT, July 14, 1863; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. VII, p. 18.

”Scarcely had two dozen”...continued unchecked for five days: NYT, July 14, 1863 (quotes); NYT, July 16, 1863; Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol. II, p. 360; Gaul, ”Conscription, U.S.A.” and ”New York City Draft Riots (1317 July 1863),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, pp. 488, 141415.

”the all engrossing topic of conversation”: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 219.