Part 153 (1/2)

”all convalescents...and rifle-pits”: Henry W. Halleck to George Cadwalader, July 9, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. x.x.xVII, Part II, p. 153.

”in a pleasant and confident humor”: ”12 July 1864, Tuesday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 222.

”in the least concerned...force in our front”: ”11 July 1864, Monday,” in ibid., p. 221.

”exhibits none...on former occasions”: Entry for July 11, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 72.

drove together...”were not frightened”: Entry for July 11, 1864, Taft diary.

allowing the residents of Was.h.i.+ngton...”troops to the south”: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 246.

”Before even the first...direction of Was.h.i.+ngton”: Jubal A. Early, ”The Advance on Was.h.i.+ngton in 1864. Letter from General J. A. Early,” Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. IX, JanuaryDecember 1881 (Richmond, Va.: Southern Historical Society; Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfood Publis.h.i.+ng Co., Morningside Bookshop, 1990), p. 306.

”to be exceedingly...impregnable”: Jubal Anderson Early, War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States, ed. Frank E. Vandiver. Civil War Centennial Series (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 390.

at Fort Stevens: Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Jubal Early's Raid on Was.h.i.+ngton, 1864 (Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publis.h.i.+ng Co. of America, 1989), pp. 11755.

”The President evinced...standing upon it”: Cramer, Lincoln Under Enemy Fire, p. 30.

”Get down”...unusual incident: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., quoted in ibid., p. 22.

”was exciting and wild...to have occurred”: Entry for July 12, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, pp. 7576.

”an egregious blunder”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (New York: Collier Books, 1963), p. 205.

Welles knew...appeared ”contemptible”: Entry for July 13, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. II, p. 76.

”Mrs. Lincoln...away as they did!”: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 30102 (quote p. 302).

”I am informed...dismissed from the cabinet”: Henry W. Halleck to EMS, July 13, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

”Whether the remarks...shall be dismissed”: EMS to AL, July 14, 1864, Lincoln Papers; AL to EMS, July 14, 1864, in CW, VII, pp. 43940 (quote).

”It would greatly pain...now or hereafter”: AL, ”Memorandum Read to Cabinet,” [July 14?], 186[4], in CW, VII, p. 439.

Learning that Ben Butler...”civilians on either side”: MB to Benjamin F. Butler, August 10, 1864, in Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War. Vol. V: August 1864March 1868 (Norwood, Ma.s.s.: Plimpton Press, 1917), p. 32 (quote); Cooling, Jubal Early's Raid on Was.h.i.+ngton, 1864, pp. 15253.

”The loss is...is unrelieved[?]”: MB to R. A. Sloane, July 21, 1864, reel 22, Blair Family Papers, DLC.

”The month of August”...throughout the North: Brooks, Lincoln Observed, Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, ed. Michael Burlingame (Baltimore, Md., and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. 129.

mid-July call for five hundred thousand additional volunteers: NYT, July 19, 1864.

”dissatisfaction...with the colors flying”: Ibid.

An ingenious attempt: See Dorothy L. Drinkard, ”Crater, Battle of the (30 July 1864),” in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, ed. Heidler and Heidler, p. 517; McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 75860.

”Piled on top...frightened sheep”: Brooks, Lincoln Observed, p. 130.

”It was the saddest...again to have”: USG to Henry W. Halleck, August 1, 1864, OR, Ser. 1, Vol. XL, Part I, p. 17.