Part 149 (1/2)
”trappings and...canopy of heaven”: Elihu Washburne, quoted in Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, p. 510.
his preference for pork...”in spasms”: NYT, March 31, 1864.
”was done exactly...into history”: McFeely, Grant, p. 152.
”unusually backward”...end of the month: Entry for May 1, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 363.
”stormy and inclement...of the Old Dominion”: Dispatch of April 11, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House, p. 219.
”the toughest snowstorm...ever I saw him”: Entry for March 23, 1864, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 447.
”as pleasant and funny”...Sat.u.r.day levee: Benjamin B. French to Pamela Prentiss French, April 10, 1864, transcription, reel 10, French Family Papers, DLC.
he strolled into John Hay's room...”'is of me'”: ”24 April 1864, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 188.
”a beleaguered nation...was never bright”: J. G. Randall, The Civil War and Reconstruction (1937; Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1953), pp. 670, 347.
”real suffering...in the social scale”: NYT, July 7, 1864.
Food riots had broken out...vandalized: Randall, The Civil War and Reconstruction, p. 670; Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 18611865. New American Nation Series (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 199206.
Davis's health gradually...isolated himself: Davis, Jefferson Davis, pp. 53940, 55153.
The ”tramp” of his feet: Entry for May 8, 1864, in Mary Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), p. 601.
Was.h.i.+ngton was filled...were imminent: Dispatch of May 2, 1864, in Stoddard, Dispatches from Lincoln's White House, p. 223.
”beginning to feel...generally been failures”: JGN to TB, May 1, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
Lincoln wrote him a letter...”dignity at once”: ”30 April 1864, Sat.u.r.day,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 192.
”entire satisfaction...power to give”: AL to USG, April 30, 1864, in CW, VII, p. 324.
”been astonished...fault is not with you”: USG to AL, May 1, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the Army...from the James River: Michael Korda, Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero. Eminent Lives Series (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 97.
”This concerted movement...in numbers”: ”30 April 1864, Sat.u.r.day,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 193.
great ”solicitude...great advantages”: Entry for May 1, 1864, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 668.
the Wilderness: E. M. Law, ”From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. IV, Pt. I, p. 122; McFeely, Grant, p. 167; Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 56, 1864 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), pp. 27, 51, 142, 163, 178, 193.
climb over the dead...”three and four deep”: NYT, May 15, 1864.
”a nightmare of inhumanity”: McFeely, Grant, p. 165.
86,000 Union and Confederate casualties: Table of casualties, Noah Andre Trudeau, b.l.o.o.d.y Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, MayJune 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), p. 341.
”The world has never seen...never will again”: USG to Julia Dent Grant, May 13, 1864, in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Vol. X: January 1May 31, 1864, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), p. 444.