The Man Who Saved the Union (99 page)

“Matamoros contains probably”
: to John Lowe, June 26, 1846.

“Low with a flat or thatched roof”
: to Julia Dent, June 10, 1846.

“The whole country is low and flat”
: to Julia Dent, July 2, 1846.

“General Taylor never made any great show … or physical courage”
:
Memoirs
, 69-71.

“When we left Matamoros”
: to Julia Dent, Aug. 14, 1846.

“About one in five is sick”
: to Julia Dent, Sept. 6, 1846.

“but some fifteen hundred”
: John S. D. Eisenhower,
So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848
(1989), 110.

“I respectfully protest”
: to Bvt. Col. John Garland, undated (Aug. 1846).

“The tents and cooking utensils”
:
Memoirs
, 72-73.

“Monterrey is a beautiful city”
: to Julia Dent, Oct. 3, 1846.

“My curiosity got the better…‘what it was all about’ ”
:
Memoirs
, 76-82.

CHAPTER 5

“I have found in Lieutenant Grant”
: John W. Emerson, “Grant’s Life in the West and His Mississippi Valley Campaigns,”
Midland Monthly Magazine
(1897), 34.

“He died as a soldier dies”
: to Mrs. Thomas L. Hamer, undated (Dec. 1846).

“Hamer was one of the ablest men”
:
Memoirs
, 71.

“He is evidently a weak man”
:
The Diary of James K. Polk during His Presidency, 1845 to 1849
(1910), 2:249-50.

“Here we are”
: to unknown addressee, undated (Dec. 1846), Emerson, “Grant’s Life in the West,” 139-40.

“I was bitterly opposed”
:
Memoirs
, 41.

“I begin to think”
: to Julia Dent, Feb. 1, 1847.

“As soon as Gen. Scott”
: to Julia Dent, Feb. 1, 1847.

“A great part of the time”
: to Julia Dent, Feb. 25, 1847.

“Why, the thing looks”
:
Memoirs
, 86.

“The city is a solid, compact place”
: to Julia Dent, April 3, 1847.

“From Vera Cruz to this place”
: to Julia Dent, April 24, 1847.

“I
must
and
will
accompany my regiment”
: to unrecorded recipient, undated (April 1847).

“Lieutenant Grant is informed”
: from John Garland, undated (appended to Grant’s request of April 1847, just above).

“Perhaps there was not a battle”
:
Memoirs
, 91.

“It was war pyrotechnics”
: to unidentified recipient, April 24, 1846.

“As soon as the Mexicans … without resistance”
: to John Lowe, May 3, 1846.

CHAPTER 6

“It surpasses St. Louis … resign or not”
: to Julia Dent, May 17, 1847.

“I happened to notice … without further loss”
:
Memoirs
, 103-04.

“When I knocked for admission”
:
Memoirs
, 106-09.

“most nobly”
: Walter Allen,
Ulysses S. Grant
(1901), 31.

“Mexico is one of the most beautiful cities”
: to Julia Dent, Sept. 1847.

“From my map…
ignorance
of the situation”
: to unknown addressee, undated (Sept. 12, 1847).

“The battles of Molino del Rey and Chapultepec”
:
Memoirs
, 104.

“that things are seen plainer”
:
Memoirs
, 113.

“The contrast between the two … pleasant to serve with”
:
Memoirs
, 94-95.

“Everything looks as if peace”
: to Julia Dent, Sept. 1847.

“If the treaty in its present form is ratified”
:
Diary of Polk
, Feb. 28, 1848, 3:366.

“not wishing to leave”
:
Memoirs
, 119.

“The day that we arrived … where they were”
: to Julia Dent, May 7, 1848;
Memoirs
, 123-28.

“I have no doubt”
: to Julia Dent, May 22, 1848.

CHAPTER 7

“I remember one day”
:
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
(1990 ed.), 64.

“At the Academy”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 16.

“I asked their business”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 64-65.

“Stories reached us”
:
Memoirs of Sherman
, 70, 78.

“The most moderate estimate”
: H. W. Brands,
The Age of Gold
(2002), 45-46.

“The accounts of the abundance”
: Polk annual message, Dec. 5, 1848, Public Papers.

“If he cannot or will not do this”
:
Works of Lincoln
, 1:439.

“No man was governed by higher or purer motives”
: Brands,
Age of Gold
, 304.

“I had had four years”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 55.

“How I marveled … I was well satisfied”
: Ibid., 56-57.

“Two years were spent”
:
Memoirs
, 130.

“A little frame house … a slicked bullet”
: James E. Pitman interview, William Conant Church Papers, Library of Congress,
granthomepage.com
.

“Sackets Harbor is as dull a little hole”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Aug. 31, 1851.

“Take good care of little Fred”
: to Julia Dent Grant, June 29, 1851.

“It distresses me, dearest”
: to Julia Dent Grant, undated (July 5, 1852).

“I was very much disappointed”
: to Julia Dent Grant, July 1, 1852.

“Mr. Clay’s death”
: to Julia Dent Grant, July 4, 1852.

“The streets of the town”
:
Memoirs
, 131-33.

“My dearest”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Aug. 9, 1852.

CHAPTER 8

“I consider that city”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Sept. 19, 1852.

“Often broken places were found”
:
Memoirs
, 139.

“During my year on the Columbia River”
:
Memoirs
, 138.

“Everyone speaks well … within the year”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Sept. 19 and Oct. 7, 1852.

“I have been up to the Dalles”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Oct. 26, 1852.

“About pecuniary matters, dear Julia”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Dec. 3, 1852.

“The snow is now some ten inches”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Dec. 19, 1852.

“Captain Ingalls and myself”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Jan. 3, 1853.

“The climate of Oregon”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Jan. 29, 1853.

“I am farming extensively”
: to Julia Dent Grant, March 4 and 19, 1853.

“I have my health perfectly … bring you with me”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Oct. 26 and Dec. 19, 1852, and Jan. 29, 1853.

“The Columbia is now far over its banks … the commission way!”
: to Julia Dent Grant, June 28, 1853.

“I have purchased for them”
: to Julia Dent Grant, June 28, 1853.

“Besides the gambling in cards”
:
Memoirs
, 139-40.

“I cannot say much in favor of the place”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Jan. 18, 1854.

“I do nothing here … with his Grandpa”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Feb. 2, 1854.

“I have not been a hundred yards … necessities of life”
: to Julia Dent Grant, March 6 and 25, 1854.

“There is but one thing to console”
: to Julia Dent Grant, Feb. 6, 1854.

“There was not a day passed”
:
General George Crook: His Autobiography
, ed. Martin F. Schmitt (1986), 7.

“One glass would show … preferred against him”
: Charles G. Ellington,
The Trial of U. S. Grant: The Pacific Coast Years, 1852-1854
(1987), 167.

“Grant’s friends at the time … on such a charge”
: Hamlin Garland,
Ulysses S. Grant
(1898), 127.

“I very respectfully tender”
: to Col. S. Cooper, April 11, 1854.

CHAPTER 9

“sink in hell”
: David M. Potter,
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
(1976), 155.

“It will raise a hell of a storm”
: Potter,
Impending Crisis
, 160.

“Do you suppose”
:
Congressional Globe
, 33:1:337-38.

“I adjure you”
:
Congressional Globe
, 33:1:342.

“a gross violation”
: Potter,
Impending Crisis
, 163.

“a terrible outrage … forever continue free”
: James M. McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom
(1988), 124.

“whip and spur”
: Potter,
Impending Crisis
, 166.

“I would be much gratified”
: Jesse Grant to Jefferson Davis, June 21, 1854,
Papers of Grant
, 1:330n.

“I have to inform you”
: Davis to Jesse Grant, June 28, 1854,
Papers of Grant
, 1:331n.

“Grant landed in New York in 1854”
: Simon Bolivar Buckner interview, Hamlin Garland Papers, Doheny Library, University of Southern California,
granthomepage.com
.

“West Point spoiled one of my boys”
: Hamlin Garland,
Ulysses S. Grant
(1898), 129.

“Mamma, is that ugly man my papa?”
: Garland,
Grant
, 74.

“How very happy”
: Garland,
Grant
, 75.

“I worked very hard”
:
Memoirs
, 141.

“I cannot imagine … call it Hardscrabble”
:
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
, 78-79.

“I feel as if the
Mission
”
: Stephens to Robert Burch, June 15, 1854,
American Historical Review
, vol. 8 (1902-03), 92-96.

“I remember he impressed me”
: Paul M. Angle, ed.,
The Lincoln Reader
(2005), 202-03.

“I pledge myself … destruction of slavery”
: Evan Carton,
Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
(2006), 82.

“Bleeding Kansas … abandon the Territory”
: Potter,
Impending Crisis
, 220;
New York Times
, May 30, 1856.

“The late civil war in Kansas”
: Dale E. Watts, “How Bloody Was Bleeding Kansas?”
Kansas History
, Summer 1995, 123.

“Crime Against Kansas … the harlot, slavery”
: George H. Haynes,
Charles Sumner
(1909), 195.

CHAPTER 10

“Every day I like farming better … advantage to me”
: to Jesse Grant, Dec. 28, 1856.

“Spring is now approaching … no more from you”
: to Jesse Grant, Feb. 7, 1857.

“I have seen many farmers”
: Mary Robinson interview,
St. Louis Republican
, July 24, 1885,
granthomepage.com
.

“My hard work is now over”
: to Mary Grant, Aug. 22, 1857.

“He was not a hand to manage Negroes”
: Louisa Boggs interview with Hamlin Garland, 1896, Hamlin Garland Papers, Doheny Library, University of Southern California,
granthomepage.com
.

“He was like a man thinking”
: Hamlin Garland,
Ulysses S. Grant
(1898), 139.

“I suppose I was the Jonah”
: Lloyd Lewis,
Sherman
(1932), 123.

“West Point and the Regular Army”
: Lewis,
Sherman
, 97.

CHAPTER 11

“We gave him an unfurnished back room”
: Louisa Boggs interview (unattributed),
granthomepage.com
.

“We are living now … additional commissions”
: to Jesse Grant, March 12, 1859.

“With four children”
: to Jesse Grant, March 12, 1859.

“You are the homeliest man”
:
Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
, ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher (1996), 401-02.

“Liberty and Union”
:
Works of Lincoln
, 2:341.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand”
:
Works of Lincoln
, 2:461-62.

“Henry Clay once said”
:
Works of Lincoln
, 3:29.

“It was a hard situation for him”
: Louisa Boggs interview, Hamlin Garland Papers, Doheny Library, University of Southern California,
granthomepage.com
.

“He seemed to me to be much depressed”
: Louisa Boggs interview.

“It was evident to my mind”
:
Memoirs
, 143.

“Should your honorable body see proper”
: to St. Louis County Board of Commissioners, Aug. 15, 1859.

“He always maintained”
: Reynolds to Board of County Commissioners, Aug. 1, 1859,
Papers of Grant
, 1:348-49n.

“The question has at length been settled … will support me”
: to Jesse Grant, Sept. 23, 1859.

“I am still unemployed … when you were here”
: to Simpson Grant, Oct. 24, 1859.

“They were very poor in money”
: Louisa Boggs interview.

PART TWO: THE RAGE OF ACHILLES

CHAPTER 12

“Talk! talk! talk!”
: Stephen B. Oates,
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
(1970), 272.

“You will never get out alive”
: Evan Carton,
Patriotic Treason
, 288.

“Reached Harpers Ferry at 11 p.m.”
:
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
, ed. Robert E. Lee (Jr.) (1905), 22.

“I see a book kissed”
: Oates,
To Purge This Land with Blood
, 327.