Our One Common Country (52 page)

118.
depot near the High Bridge:
Furgurson, map of Richmond after page xi.

118.
met at the Richmond & Petersburg depot . . . change in plans:
Fragment written by Stephens (“Stephens Fragment”), Stephens Papers, Library of Congress, p. 23;
Richmond Dispatch,
January 30, 1865, reprinted in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
February 3, 1865; handwritten article written by Stephens for the
Philadelphia Times,
in the Stephens Papers at the Library of Congress (“Stephens Manuscript”), pp. 3–4.

118.
not long out of a sickbed: Id.,
pp. 19–20.

118.
Yellow complexion: Porter,
Grant,
p. 385.

118.
ponderous gray overcoat:
Id.

118.
Ben Travis and Colonel Hatch: Stephens Manuscript, pp. 4 and 11; Samuel Harris,
Yankees in Rebel Prisons
(Chicago: Samuel Harris & Co., 1900), p. 21; Schott, p. 445;
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
www.bioguidecongress.gov. (“Biographical Directory”).

118.
the publicity alone:
Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, p. 621.

118.
“plentiful as blackberries”: Richmond Dispatch,
January 29, 1865, quoted in
Philadelphia Inquirer,
February 3, 1865.

119.
Campbell gave Stephens and Hunter their copies:
Campbell,
Reminiscences,
p. 9.

119.
“nothing could come of it”:
Stephens Fragment, p. 23, which contradicts Stephens's public, postwar repudiation of the idea that Davis tied the commissioners' hands and sabotaged the peace conference (e.g., Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, p. 577), as do Stephens's private conversations with friends (e.g., Rowland,
Davis
, vol. 10, pp. 20–22; Johnston and Browne, pp. 484 and 486;
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel,
reprinted in
New York Times,
June 26, 1865)
.

119.
Campbell believed he had done just that:
See Strode, p. 468.

119.
Stephens had thought there was a chance of doing something:
Schott, p. 442.

119.
Now all three commissioners despaired:
Stephens Fragment, p. 23. See Campbell,
Reminiscences
, pp. 4–5 and 8–9; Hunter, “Peace Commission,” p. 170; Hunter, “Reply,” pp. 304–05 and 317; and Jones, vol. 2, p. 402.

119.
“the extent of our destitution I did not understand”:
Hunter, “Reply,” p. 306

119.
“a beggarly account”:
Hunter, “Peace Commission,” p. 168.

119.
“hermetically sealed”:
Hunter, “Reply,” p. 306.

119.
“I knew him well”:
Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, p. 266.

119.
considered offering Stephens a Cabinet post:
Avary,
Recollections
, p. 61; Julian S. Carr,
The Hampton Roads Conference
(Durham, NC: 1917) (“Carr, Hampton Roads Conference”), p. 7.

119.
“but not in the object”:
Stephens,
CV,
vol. 2, p. 266.

119.
Hunter's reaction to public sentiment: Hunter, “Peace Commission,” p. 170.

120.
General Grant would be expecting them:
Bolton, p. 243; Willcox, p. 604;
Boston Daily Evening Transcript,
February 1, 1865.

120.
“on a big drunk”:
Stephens Fragment, p. 23.

120.
Lee's message to Davis:
Lee's Dispatches
, p. 330; McElroy, p. 435.

120.
Their bright red tracks:
Ulysses R. Brooks,
Butler and His Cavalry in the War of Secession, 1861
–
1865
(Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1909), p. 385.

120.
“curs of every degree”:
Willcox, p. 600.

120.
Reports of the commissioners' arrival:
Id.,
pp. 603–04;
OR
, ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, 290; Bolton, p. 243; see Henry C. Houston,
The Thirty-Second Maine Regiment of Infantry Volunteers: An Historical Sketch
(Portland, ME: Southworth Brothers, 1903), p. 444;
Daily Constitutional Union
, February 3, 1865.

120.
City Point in the hands of General Ord: Howard C. Westwood, “The Singing Wire Conspiracy,” 19
Civil War Times Illustrated
(December 1980) (“Westwood,
Singing Wire Conspiracy
”), p. 32.

120.
Parke passed the buck to Ord: OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, pp. 290, 290, 292, and 302–03.

120.
Hatch was advised to come back in the morning:
Id.,
pp. 291–92.

121.
“in seemingly friendly intercourse”: Boston Daily Evening Transcript
, February 2, 1865.

121.
“zero & afraid of his shadow”:
Willcox, p. 603.

121.
Stanton's order to stop the commissioners:
OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, p. 292; CW, vol. 8, p. 277. Stanton's January 29, 1865, note seeking Lincoln's instructions: Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

121.
until they had been vetted:
Elizabeth Peabody and Arlin Turner, ed., “Elizabeth Peabody Visits Lincoln, February 1865,” 48
New England Quarterly
(March 1975) (“Peabody”), pp. 119–20.

122.
Lincoln's conversation with Robert: Bates, pp. 328–29.

122.
had never worn a uniform: Id.,
p. 403.

122.
major's rank; government . . . carriage; command of . . . telegraph:
Kirkland, p. 235.

122.
which the president haunted for war news:
Bates, pp. 7–8; Crook, “Lincoln As I Knew Him,” p. 110.

122.
bullied his subordinates; guarded his master; wielded his authority:
Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Edwin M. Stanton:
The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962) (“Thomas and Hyman,
Stanton
”), p. 574; Bates, pp. 103–05, 136–37, 315–18, and 327–28; Hay,
At Lincoln's Side
, p. 109.

122.
misleading the president:
Id.,
pp. 95–97.

122.
“in the most complete and tactful manner”: Id.,
p. 328.

122.
“incessant worker”:
Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln's Time,
p. 30.

122.
“a small, mean, two-story building”:
Crook, “Lincoln As I Knew Him,” p. 110.

122.
Stanton hovered there day and night: Id.

123.
midnight supper for Lincoln:
Welles Diary, vol. 2, p. 178; Hay Diary, p. 246.

123.
iron pokers: Id.,
p. 131; Jim Bishop,
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
(New York: Bantam, 1956) (“Bishop,
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
”), p. 77.

123.
Sending Eckert was the Secretary of War's idea:
Frank A. Flower,
Edwin McMasters Stanton
(Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1905) (“Flower”), pp. 249 and 257–58.

123.
“I never see General Eckert without thinking of it”:
Bates, p. 329.

123.
reported to Eckert obsequiously: Id., passim.

123.
“shrewd and wily adversaries”: Id.,
p. 328.

123.
what Stanton was thinking: Id.,
p. 338.

123.
“I did not communicate my plans”:
Grant, vol. 2, p. 123.

124.
“stout hearts and strong hands”: Richmond Sentinel,
January 30, 1865, reprinted in
New York Times,
February 2, 1865.

124.
“unworthy of a gallant people”: Richmond Examiner,
January 30, 1865, reprinted in
New York Times,
February 2, 1865.

124–125.
Wade's exchange with Johnson:
Congressional Globe,
January 30, pp. 495–96.

125.
Willcox's exchange with Parke:
OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, p. 301.

125.
Hatch appeared and returned:
Id.; New York Times,
February 2, 1865. Fort Morton and its fourteen guns are in Trudeau, pp. 55–57.

125.
Harriman's regiment's losses: E. B. Quiner,
The Military History of Wisconsin
(Chicago: Clarke & Co., 1866).

126.
“A piece of ten-inch shell”: New York Times
, December 31, 1916, p. E2. For Colonel Harriman, see Dictionary of Wisconsin History, www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary (“Wisconsin Dictionary”).

126.
“a messenger will be dispatched”:
OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, p. 302.

126.
“plenty of ammunition handy”: Id.,
p., 297.

126.
The commissioners' note to Grant:
Id.;
Stephens Manuscript, p. 5.

126.
Traders dumped gold on Wall Street: Baltimore Sun,
February 1, 1865.

126.
“Great talk and many rumors . . . of peace”:
Welles Diary, vol. 2, p. 231.

127.
Foote's letter to Seward: Foote,
War of the Rebellion,
pp. 387–401 and 405; Kirkland, p. 236 n. 57.

127.
keep them from seeing troop movements:
McElroy, p. 436.

 

CHAPTER 15

128.
Grant on Stanton: Grant, vol. 2, pp. 536–37.

128.
obliged to defer to Stanton:
Badeau, vol. 3, p. 157.

128.
incapable of chicanery:
Dana,
Grant,
p. 406.

128.
“I determined to put a stop to this”:
Grant, vol. 2, p. 317.

129.
Grant's wire to Halleck:
Id.,
pp. 317–18.

129.
Lincoln's reply to Grant's wire:
Id.;
OR,
ser. 1, vol. 37, pt. 2, p. 582.

129.
“without stopping at Washington on my way”:
Grant, vol. 2, p. 319; see Smith,
Grant,
pp. 379–80.

129.
Sheridan attacked Early and routed him:
Grant, vol. 2, pp. 331–32.

129.
“deference enough to the Government”:
Paraphrased by Grant's friend Mark Twain in Mark Twain and Harriet E. Smith, ed.,
Autobiography of Mark Twain,
vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), p. 382.

129.
Stanton's control over Grant's telegraphed orders:
Grant,
vol. 2, pp. 103–05.

129.
Grant's struggles with Stanton over control of the telegraph: Grant, vol. 2, pp. 103–05.

129.
Grant's softness on reconciliation: e.g., Grant Papers, vol. 14, p. 433; McFeely,
William S. Grant: A Biography
(New York: Norton & Company, 1981), pp. 197–98.

129.
“Mr. Lincoln was not timid”:
Grant, vol. 2, p. 537.

130.
Willcox and Jones on the weather: Willcox, p. 604; Jones, vol. 2, p. 404.

130.
Grant returned to City Point: OR,
vol. 46, pt. 2, pp. 311–12.

130.
Every train pulling in: New York Times,
February 4, 1865.

130.
It was put in his hands immediately: OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, pp. 311–12; see Badeau,
Grant,
vol. 3, p. 136.

130.
Grant would be expecting them:
See Willcox, pp. 603–04;
Boston Daily Evening Transcript,
February 1, 1865.

130–131.
Grant's note to the commissioners:
OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, p. 312; Grant Papers, vol. 13, p. 334.

131.
Colonel Babcock: Julia Grant, pp. 140 and 199 n. 16.

131.
Babcock left on the next train:
OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, p. 317.

131.
Grant's wire to Lincoln:
OR,
ser. 1, v. 46, pt. 2, p. 311; originally addressed to Stanton, Grant Papers, vol. 13, p. 333.

131.
Lincoln's reply to Grant:
Id.

131.
Lincoln was encouraged:
Brooks,
Lincoln Observed,
p. 159; Nicolay and Hay, vol. 10, p. 114.

131.
Lincoln's instructions to Seward:
CW,
vol. 8, pp. 250–51.

132.
members who knew Seward would chuckle:
Brooks,
Lincoln Observed,
p. 163.

132.
Nicolay was a guest on the floor:
Cox,
Three Decades,
p. 327.

132.
a coin toss:
Nicolay and Hay, vol. 10, p. 85.

132.
“Whatever promise you make . . . I will perform it”:
Dana,
Lincoln's Cabinet,
pp. 57–59.

132.
Cox was told peace envoys about to cross or already had: Cox,
Three Decades,
p. 327.

132.
The exchange between Ashley, Nicolay, and Cox:
Id.

133.
“So far as I know”: Id.;
CW
, vol. 8, p. 248.