The Man Who Saved the Union (105 page)

“If you are satisfied”
: to Sherman, Oct. 12, 1864,
Official Records
, 1:39(3):202.

“I am now perfecting arrangements”
: Sherman to Grant, Oct. 22, 1864,
Official Records
, 1:39(3):394-95.

“On the 1st of November”
: Sherman to A. Beckwith, Oct. 19, 1864,
Official Records
, 1:39(3):358-59.

“On mature reflection”
: to Stanton, Oct. 13, 1864.

“Great good fortune attend you”
: to Sherman, Nov. 7, 1864.

“Oh, God, the time of trial … ever seeing again!”
: Lunt diary, Nov. 17-19, 1864, in Dolly Sumner Lunt,
A Woman’s Wartime Journal
(1918), 17-30.

“My orders are not designed”
: Sherman to James Calhoun et al., Sept. 12, 1864,
The Rebellion Record
, ed. Frank Moore (1868), 11:318.

“Stone Mountain … to be his freedom”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 656-67.

“The army will forage liberally”
: Special Field Orders No. 120, Nov. 9, 1864,
Official Records
, 1:39(3):713.

“Often I would pass these foraging parties … exceptional and incidental”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 659.

“The weather was fine”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 669.

“Grant says they are safe”
:
Memoirs
, 647.

“I congratulate you”
: to Sherman, Dec. 18, 1864.

“To His Excellency President Lincoln”
: Sherman to Lincoln, Dec. 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

CHAPTER 47

“If Hood is permitted … to attain this end”
: to Thomas, Dec. 2, 1864 (two messages).

“Hood should be attacked”
: to Thomas, Dec. 5, 1864.

“Attack Hood at once”
: to Thomas, Dec. 6, 1864.

“If you delay any longer”
: to Thomas, Dec. 11, 1864.

“General Thomas with the forces”
: John C. Van Duzer to Thomas T. Eckert, Dec. 15, 1864,
Papers of Grant
, 13:125n.

“I was just on my way to Nashville”
: to Thomas, Dec. 15, 1864.

“The Wilmington expedition”
: to Lincoln, Dec. 28, 1864.

“Please hold on”
: to Porter, Dec. 30, 1864.

“Here there is not the slightest suspicion”
: to Stanton, Jan. 3, 1865.

“It is exceedingly desirable”
: to Terry, Jan. 3, 1865.

“Desertion is increasing”
: Lee statement, undated, in James D. McCabe Jr.,
Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee
(1866), 572.

“The enemy will certainly use them”
: Lee to Barksdale, Feb. 18, 1865, ibid., 574.

“If I were he”
: Edward A. Pollard,
Life of Jefferson Davis
(1869), 437.

“Deeply impressed with the difficulties”
: Lee General Orders No. 1, Feb. 9, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(2):1226.

“I think General Grant will move”
: to Mary Lee, Feb. 22, 1865,
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
(1905), 146.

“I could not see how it was possible”
:
Memoirs
, 688.

“I felt that the situation”
:
Memoirs
, 687-88.

“I know this trip is necessary”
: Sherman to Grant, Jan. 29, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:47(2):154-56.

“It is utterly impossible”
: Sheridan to Grant, Feb. 12, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(2):545.

“As soon as it is possible”
: to Sheridan, Feb. 20, 1865.

“We desire to pass your lines”
: Stephens et al. to Grant, Jan. 30, 1865, in Grant to Lincoln, Jan. 31, 1865.

“I found them all very agreeable … ever you did see?”
:
Memoirs
, 685-87.

“The peace feeling”
: to Sherman, Feb. 1, 1865.

“General Howard will cross the Saluda”
: Special Field Orders No. 26, Feb. 16, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:47(2):444.

“The northern and western sky”
: “The Burning of Columbia Again,”
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
, Oct. 1866, 643.

“Oh, that long twelve hours”
: Diary entry for Feb. 18, 1865, in
When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte
, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (1987 ed.), 48-50.

“If I had made up my mind to burn Columbia”
: Sherman in Marion B. Lucas,
Sherman and the Burning of Columbia
(2000 ed.), 154.

“During the night”
:
Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard
(1907), 122-23.

“One thing is certain”
:
Memoirs
, 681.

CHAPTER 48

“Whilst the enemy holds”
: to Meade, March 3, 1865.

“I feel no doubt”
: to Charles Ford, March 1, 1865.

“Lieutenant General Longstreet has informed me”
: Lee to Grant, March 2, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(2):824.

“General Ord and General Longstreet”
: to Lee, March 4, 1865.

“I can assure you”
: to Stanton, March 4, 1865.

“Please accept”
: Lincoln to Grant, March 7, 1865,
Works of Lincoln
, 8:339.

“I accept the medal”
: Grant speech, March 11, 1865.

“The officers soon selected”
: David Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
(1907), 393-94.

“Save him! Oh, save him!”
: Porter,
Campaigning with Grant
, 394-95.

“We are now having fine weather”
: to Jesse Grant, March 19, 1865.

“I have never felt any uneasiness”
: to Sherman, March 16, 1865.

“Your problem will be”
: to Sheridan, March 19, 1865.

“When this movement commences”
: to Sherman, March 22, 1865.

“A large part of the armies”
: to Meade, March 24, 1865.

“In the fight today”
: to Edward Ord, March 25, 1865.

“The President was not very cheerful … on the left”
:
Memoirs of Sheridan
, 2:130-31.

“After having accomplished the destruction”
: to Sheridan, March 28, 1865.

“This portion of your instructions”
:
Memoirs
, 696.

“The heavy rains and horrid roads”
: to Lincoln, March 31, 1865.

“The weather is bad for us”
: to Julia Dent Grant, March 30, 1865.

“General Sheridan will attack”
: Porter to Rawlins, April 1, 1865, in Grant to Lincoln, April 1, 1865.

“The result of this combined movement”
: Sheridan to Grant, April 2, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):1100-01.

“We are now up”
: to Theodore Bowers, April 2, 1865.

CHAPTER 49

“I see no prospect of doing more”
: Lee to J. C. Breckinridge, April 2, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):1264.

“To move tonight”
: Jay Winik,
April 1865
(2001), 120.

“It is absolutely necessary”
: Lee to Breckinridge, April 2, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):1265.

“On the morning of Sunday … streets of Richmond”
: LaSalle Corbell Pickett,
What Happened to Me
(1917), 159-62.

“I have got my army”
: Winik,
April 1865
, 120.

“The first object of the present movement”
: to Sheridan, April 3, 1865.

“Efforts will be made”
: to Ord, April 3, 1865,
Papers of Grant
, 14:335-36n.

“Sheridan, who was up with him”
: to Sherman, April 5, 1865.

“We have Lee’s army”
: to Sherman, April 6, 1865.

“These troops were sent out”
: to Theodore Bowers, April 6, 1865.

“Nearly twenty-four hours were lost … the progress slow”
: Lee report to Davis, April 12, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):1265-66.

“The result of the last week”
: to Lee, April 7, 1865.

“I reciprocate your desire”
: Lee to Grant, April 7, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):56.

“There is but one condition”
: to Lee, April 8, 1865.

“I did not intend to propose”
: Lee to Grant, April 8, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):57.

“The captured trains”
:
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
(1888), 2:190.

“The necessity of getting Ord’s column … to General Grant”
:
Memoirs of Sheridan
, 2:196-98.

“On the 8th I had followed”
:
Memoirs
, 730.

“I received your note of this morning”
: Lee to Grant, April 9, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(1):57.

“When the officer reached me”
:
Memoirs
, 731.

“I am at this writing”
: to Lee, April 9, 1865.

“Is it a trick?”
: Adam Badeau,
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865
(1881-85), 3:601n.

“Lee was tall”
: Badeau,
Military History of Grant
, 3:603.

“As he was a man of much dignity”
:
Memoirs
, 735.

“In accordance with the substance”
: to Lee, April 9, 1865.

“The Confederates were now our prisoners”
:
Memoirs
, 741.

“Thanks be to Almighty God”
: Stanton to Grant, April 9, 1865,
Papers of Grant
, 14:375n.

PART THREE: AND GIVE THE PEACE

CHAPTER 50

“I had never had the courage”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 126-27.

““I don’t know … their despair, would you?”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 135, 152-53.

“Everyone was wild … You may go now”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 154-55.

“It would be impossible”
:
Memoirs
, 750-51.

“The joy that I had witnessed”
:
Memoirs
, 751.

“Permit me to suggest”
: from Dana, April 15, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:46(3):756.

“General Grant, thank God”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 157.

“Extreme rigor will have to be observed”
: to Ord, April 15, 1865.

“I want you to get your cavalry”
: to Sheridan, April 15, 1865.

“I enclose herewith a copy … composing said armies”
: from Sherman, April 18, 1865, with enclosure,
Official Records
, 1:47(3):243-44.

“They are of such importance”
: to Stanton, April 21, 1865.

“I thought the matter”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 852.

“It was an exercise”
:
New York Times
, April 24, 1865.

“I have never in my life”
: from Sherman, April 28, 1865,
Official Records
, 1:47(3):334-35.

CHAPTER 51

“Johnson was a man of the coolest”
: Oliver P. Temple,
Notable Men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875
(1912), 465-67.

“Although it would meet with opposition”
: to Halleck, May 6, 1865.

“By going now”
: to Stanton, May 18, 1865.

“Until a uniform policy is adopted”
: to John Schofield, May 18, 1865.

“The sight was varied and grand”
:
Memoirs
, 768-69.

“To say that I was merely angry”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 861-62, 866.

“Mr. Stanton never questioned his own authority”
:
Memoirs
, 769.

“In what manner has Mr. Stanton”
: Grant testimony, May 18, 1865.

“The Rio Grande should be strongly held”
: to Sheridan, May 17, 1865.

“I regard the act”
: to Johnson, June 19, 1865.

“Nonintervention in Mexican affairs”
: to Johnson, Sept. 8, 1865.

“Treason is a crime”
: Eric L. McKitrick,
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
(1960), 20.

CHAPTER 52

“General Grant was in the council-room”
: Diary entry for Dec. 15, 1865,
Diary of Gideon Welles
(1911), 2:396-97.

“I saw much and conversed freely … in whom they rely”
: to Johnson, Dec. 18, 1865.

“The aspect of affairs is more promising”
: Johnson special message, Dec. 18, 1865, Public Papers.

“They have torn their constitutional states … to its center”
:
Congressional Globe
, 39:1:72-74.

“In all our history”
: Johnson veto message, March 27, 1866, Public Papers.

“This is a country for white men”
: Eric L. McKitrick,
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
(1960), 184.

“fatal and total surrender”
: Eric Foner,
Reconstruction
(1988), 255.

“wanton betrayal of justice and humanity”
: Kenneth M. Stampp,
The Era of Reconstruction
(1965), 142.

“shilly-shally bungling thing”
: Stampp,
The Era of Reconstruction
, 141.

“In my youth”
:
Congressional Globe
, 39:1:3148.

CHAPTER 53

“I look upon it as an indication … Kick ’em out!”
:
New York Times
, Sept. 10, 1866.

“I am getting very tired”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Aug. 31, 1866.

“I never have been so tired”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Sept. 9, 1866.