Part 139 (1/2)
required to sit...”Don't move a muscle!”: George Sullivan, Mathew Brady: His Life and Photographs (New York: Cobblehill Books, 1994), pp. 1718 (quote p. 18).
”contrived grinning...become obligatory”: James Mellon, ed., The Face of Lincoln (New York: Viking Press, 1979), pp. 1314.
”the rebel power...to disintegrate”: ”9 August 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 70.
pleasant outings...”sent me to bed”: ”23 August 1863, Sunday,” in ibid., pp. 7576 (quote p. 76); Was.h.i.+ngton Post, August 3, 1924; Pinsker, Lincoln's Sanctuary, p. 115.
”I see the President...on K Street”: Whitman, Specimen Days (1971 edn.), p. 26.
”The President and I...the season is over”: EMS to Ellen Stanton, August 25, 1863, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., ”Edwin M. Stanton.”
Stanton finally joined his wife...the Soldiers' Home: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 284.
typically wide-ranging...”party to oppose a war”: ”13 August 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, pp. 7273 (quote); Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, Buildings of the District of Columbia. Buildings of the United States Series (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 119, 128; ”Progress of Civilization,” Architect of the Capitol website, es really...to like in him”: Lord Lyons to Lord Russell, quoted in Stern, When the Guns Roared, p. 231.
”Hundreds of factories...and ca.n.a.ls”: Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton...18611872, p. 186.
European s.h.i.+pbuilders...not be delivered: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 35256, 361; entries for August 12, 29, September 18, 25, 1863, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 399, 429, 43537, 443.
”The White House...health of the nation”: Dispatch of August 31, 1863, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House, p. 166.
CHAPTER 21: ”I FEEL TROUBLE IN THE AIR”
180,000 soldiers...black males: Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 18631877 (New York: Harper & Row, 1988; 1989), p. 8.
Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation flatly declared...”United States”: AL, ”Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation,” January 1, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 30.
Stanton authorized...and other Northern states: Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, p. 156; Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 18611865 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1956; 1987), p. 105.
the war would not be won...”suppressing the rebels”: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (August 1862).
He wrote stirring appeals...many other cities: Blight, Frederick Dougla.s.s' Civil War, pp. 15759.
”Why should a colored...that claim respected”: Dougla.s.s' Monthly (April 1863).
thousands of Bostonians...high-ranking military officials: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, May 28, 1863.
”No single regiment...admirable marching”: Ibid.
He urged Banks...the enlisting process: AL to Nathaniel P. Banks, March 29, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 154; AL to David Hunter, April 1, 1863, in ibid., p. 158; AL to USG, August 9, 1863, in ibid., p. 374.
”The colored population...rebellion at once”: AL to Andrew Johnson, March 26, 1863, in ibid., pp. 14950.
Chase...”nearly two years ago”: SPC to James A. Garfield, May 31, 1863, reel 12, Garfield Papers, DLC.
a series of obstacles...losing their freedom or their lives: Benjamin Quarles, Frederick Dougla.s.s. Studies in American Negro Life Series (a.s.sociated Publishers, 1948; New York: Atheneum, 1970), pp. 20910; Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro, pp. 167, 169, 17374, 177.