The Lost Gettysburg Address (36 page)
7.
J. Markley to Charles Anderson, February 25, 1865; William Dennison
to Charles Anderson, February 27, 1865; James Speed to Charles Anderson,
February 27, 1865; Thomas Corwin to Charles Anderson, February 28,
1865; John Sherman to Charles Anderson, March 6, 7, and 13, April 3, 1865;
Rutherford B. Hayes to Charles Anderson, March 25, 1865; and Joseph Holt
to Charles Anderson, March 27, 1865—all in Richard Clough Anderson
Papers, Huntington Library.
8.
David Detzer,
Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning
of the Civil War
(New York: Harcourt, 2001), 317–320. William A. Spicer,
The Flag Replaced on Sumter: A Personal Narrative
(Providence, Rhode
Island: Providence Press Co., 1885).
9.
William G. Deshler to Charles Anderson, April 22, 1865, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
10.
As reported in
Daily Sentinel
(Indianapolis), June 17, 1864.
11.
William T. Sherman to Charles Anderson, July 28, 1865, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
12.
George H. Porter,
Ohio Politics during the Civil War Period
(New
York: AMS Press, 1911), 200–220.
13.
William Dennison to Charles Anderson, June 17 and July 20, 1865;
Robert C. Schenck to Charles Anderson, July 6, 1865; Charles Anderson to
Andrew Johnson, July 10, 1865; Rutherford B. Hayes to Charles Anderson,
July 12, 1865; Sidney Maxwell to Charles Anderson, July 19, 1865—all in
Richard Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
14.
Robert C. Schenck to Charles Anderson, July 20, 1865; Benjamin
Franklin Wade to Charles Anderson, July 29, 1865; William Dennison to
Charles Anderson, August 1 and 15, 1865; John Sherman to Charles Anderson,
August 2, 1865; and Charles Anderson to William H. Seward, August 14,
1865—all in Richard Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
15.
Benjamin Cowen to Charles Anderson, August 26, 1865; William
Dennison to Charles Anderson, August, 1865; and George Henshaw to
Charles Anderson, September 1, 1865—all in Richard Clough Anderson
Papers, Huntington Library.
New York Times
, September 1, 1865.
16.
Message and Annual Reports for 1865, Made to the Fifty-Seventh
General Assembly of Ohio, at the Regular Session, Begun and Held in the
City of Columbus, January, 1, 1866
(Columbus, Ohio: Richard Nevins, 1866),
part 1, 161, 211–212, 272–295, and 300–302.
17.
Charles Anderson to Henry B. Payne, October 31, 1865, Charles
Anderson Papers, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus.
18.
Charles Anderson,
Annual Message of the Governor of Ohio, to the
Fifty-Seventh General Assembly, at the Regular Session Commencing January
1, 1866
(Columbus, Ohio, 1866).
19.
William T. Sherman to Charles Anderson, January 4, 1866, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
New York Times
, January 1,
1866.
20.
Ephraim George Squier to Charles Anderson, January 9, 1866, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
1.
Charles Anderson to J. B. McCullough,
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
,
October 6, 1866.
2.
Eric Foner,
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution,
1863–1877
(New York: Harper & Row, 1988).
3.
Charles Anderson to William Marshall Anderson, March 30, 1867; and
Charles Anderson to John Sherman, July 22, 1867—both in Charles Anderson
Family Papers, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus.
4.
Abraham Rencher to Charles Anderson, February 4, 1867, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
5.
Charles Anderson to A. G. Curtin, November, 1869, Richard Clough
Anderson Papers, Huntington Library. Charles Anderson to Peter Cooper,
September 4, 1876, Charles Anderson Family Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
6.
Lyon County, Kentucky Deeds, Book “P,” 286–292, Lyon County
Courthouse, Eddyville, Kentucky; W. W. Martin and E. Y McNeill,
Tale
of Two Cities
(Kuttawa, Kentucky, 1901);
Memorial Record of Western
Kentucky
(Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1904); and J. P.
Barnum to Charles Anderson, April 30, 1890, plat map of Kuttawa, Kentucky,
warranty deed by Charles Anderson, December 30, 1879, Charles Anderson
Family Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
7.
Charles Anderson to Nelson Saylor, October 24, 1865; Charles Anderson
to Florida Tunstall, October 25, 1865; Charles Anderson to Penelope Phillips,
October 30, 1865—all in Charles Anderson Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
George W. Paschall to Charles Anderson, September 18 and 29, 1865; William
Bayard to Charles Anderson, December 9, 1865; Ann Ludlum to Charles
Anderson, December 12, 1865; William Dennison to Charles Anderson,
November 10, 1865; P. J. Edwards to Charles Anderson, January 20, 1870;
and Warwick Tunstall to Charles Anderson, February 6, 1868—all in Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
8.
Charles Anderson to William Marshall Anderson, December 8, 1872,
October 6, 1873, and January 10, 1879; and William Marshall Anderson
to Charles Anderson, December 26, 1878—all in Charles Anderson Family
Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
9.
S. N. Leonard to Charles Anderson, July 14, 1876; and Charles
Anderson to Kitty Anderson, October 12, 1876—both in Richard Clough
Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
10.
Charles Anderson to Kitty Anderson, November 16, 1876, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
11.
Charles Anderson to Larz Anderson Jr., July 4, 1891, Charles Anderson
Family Papers, Ohio Historical Society.
12.
Charles Anderson to Larz Anderson Jr., August 11, 1891; and Will
of Charles Anderson, 1895—both in Charles Anderson Family Papers, Ohio
Historical Society.
1.
To understand the story of the Gettysburg Address and its wartime
political context, read Martin P. Johnson’s
Writing the Gettysburg Address
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013) alongside Doris Kearns
Goodwin’s
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
(New
York: Simon & Schuster, 2005) and Eric Foner’s
The Fiery Trial: Abraham
Lincoln and American Slavery
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2010).
2.
Gabor Boritt,
The Gettysburg Gospel
:
The Lincoln Speech That
Nobody Knows
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 59–62.
Crisis
(Columbus, Ohio), November 25, 1863.
3.
Johnson,
Writing the Gettysburg Address
, 85.
4.
David Tod to Charles Anderson, October 27, 1863, in
Documents
Accompanying the Governor’s Message of January, 1864
(Columbus, Ohio,
1864), 285–287.
5.
Charles Anderson,
Letter Addressed to the Opera House Meeting,
Cincinnati
, Loyal Publication Society No. 21 (New York: 1863). Charles
Anderson,
The Cause of the War, Who Brought It on and for What Purpose?
Loyal Publication Society No. 17 (New York: 1863).
6.
Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Johnson,
Writing the Gettysburg Address
,
84.
7.
Anderson,
Cause of the War
, 10. Garry Willis makes a strong argument
that the famous phrasing “of the people, by the people, for the people,” which
Anderson also used in his speech, was the genius of the Transcendentalist and
patriot Theodore Parker. See Garry Willis,
Lincoln at Gettysburg
, (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1992), 105–120.
8.
Daily Republican of Springfeld
(Massachusetts), November 21, 1863.
Crisis
(Columbus, Ohio), November 25, 1863. Adam Gurowski, quoted in
Boritt,
Gettysburg Gospel
, 141.
Wabash Express
, November 18, 1863.
9.
Washington Daily Chronicle
, November 20, 1863.
Cincinnati Enquirer
,
December 3, 1863.
10.
Boritt,
Gettysburg
Gospel, 131–135. S. A. Hine to Charles Anderson,
December 3, 1863, Richard Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
11.
Springfeld (Ohio)
Republic
, November 30, 1863.
The Portage County
(Ohio)
Democrat
, November 25, 1863.
Crisis
(Columbus, Ohio), November
25, 1863. Abraham Stagg to Charles Anderson, November 17, 1864, Richard
Clough Anderson Papers, Huntington Library.
Adams, Charles Francis,
107–108
Allen, William,
137
Anderson, Allen Latham (son of Charles),
33
,
49
,
72
,
105
,
182
Anderson, Belle (daughter of Charles),
49
,
84
,
99–103
,
182
exodus from Texas,
81–86
assassination of Lincoln and,
166
atheism of,
179
attack on Ohio’s Black Laws by,
39–40
Battle of Stones River,
121–134
business ventures in Kentucky of,
181–182
campaign for post to Kingdom of Italy,
169
capture of,
75–80
childhood memories of,
14–15
Cincinnati residence of,
48–49
death of William “Bull” Nelson and,
114
desire for diplomatic post of,
52–53
disappointment of, after Civil War,
174–176
discovery of Gettysburg speech of,
1
,
2
,
185
early years after graduating from college,
34–35
education at Miami University,
26–29
as emissary to Britain,
108
escape from prison,
87–98
farming ventures of,
30
final years and death of,
182–183
Free Soil Party movement and,
45–46
Gettysburg address of,
157–161
,
193–216
,
223n10
as hero in New York after escape from Texas,
104–108
iron mining interests of,
179–180
issue of race and,
42–44
as leader,
36
as leader of Ninety-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
109–119
as lieutenant governor,
162
“Mexican Imbroglio” and,
171–172
move to Cincinnati and law career of,
41
as Ohio candidate for lieutenant governor of Union Party,
146–151
on leave from army service,
112–113
passion for family’s history,
181–182
planning and designing of Kuttawa, Kentucky and,
177–178
political interests of,
36–37
political positions of,
164
pursuit of foreign diplomatic posts by,
165
reaction to Gettysburg speech of,
191–192
as recruiter for Ohio volunteer infantry,
109–110
regiment of,
110–119
retirement to Kentucky,
174–183
return to New York,
103
selection of, to give Gettysburg speech,
153
,
187–190
slaves and,
20–21
speaking engagements in later years of,
182
speech on Anglo-Saxon destiny by,
42–44
,
223n14
state of the state address of,
171–173
as state senator,
37–40
succeeds Brough to become governor,
170–173
“Texas fever” of,
54–58
Texas secessionist movement and,
61–65
trip to Europe,
39–40
trip to Fort Sumter to restore flag,
166
Clement L. Vallandigham and,
135–138
,
140–145
William R. Winton case and,
44–45
Anderson, Edward L. (nephew of Charles),
118
Anderson, Elizabeth Clark (first wife of Richard Clough Anderson),
14
Anderson, Elizabeth Clough (mother of Richard Clough Anderson),
5
Anderson, Eliza Jane Brown (wife of Charles),
29
,
32–33
,
37
,
78–79
,
84
,
182
exodus from Texas,
81–86
voyage to New York,
99–103
Anderson, Kitty (daughter of Charles),
49
,
67
,
76
,
79
,
80
,
81
,
84
,
99–103
,
182
exodus from Texas,
81–86
Anderson, Larz (brother of Charles),
22–25
,
28
,
32
,
34–36
,
41
,
44
,
45
,
58
,
113
,
118
,
137
,
148
,
181
Anderson, Nicholas L. (nephew of Charles),
118
,
128–129
,
130–131
,
132
,
151
Anderson, Richard Clough, Jr. (brother of Charles),
21
,
32
Anderson, Richard Clough (father of Charles)
children of,
16–17
military career in Revolutionary War of,
6–12
Soldier’s Retreat mansion of,
14
,
15–19
,
21
as surveyor-general,
13–14
treatment of slaves by,
19–20
Anderson, Robert (brother of Charles),
15
,
23
,
30–31
,
41–42
,
70
,
104
,
137
,
166
