by H. W. Brands
“The conference might as well end”: Memoirs, 376.
“I will march in one division”: to Pemberton, July 3, 1863 (second letter).
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“Rawlins could argue”: Jacob Dolson Cox, “How Judge Hoar Ceased to Be Attorney-General,” Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1895, 164.
“I told them Grant was sick”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1899), 83.
“The great solicitude I feel”: Rawlins to Grant, June 6, 1863, in James Harrison Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins (1916), 128-29.
“My God! My God!”: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995), 436.
“If successful this year”: Stephen W. Sears, Gettysburg (2004), 15.
“Our resources in men”: Lee to Davis, June 10, 1863, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, ed. A. L. Long (1886), 620-21.
“Will it not promote the true interest”: Hooker to Lincoln, June 10, 1863, Official Records, 1:27(1):34.
“I think Lee’s army”: Lincoln to Hooker, June 10, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:257.
“If Harrisburg comes within your means”: Sears, Gettysburg, 103.
“I really think the attitude”: Lincoln to Joel Parker, June 30, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:311.
“Yesterday morning, at 3 a.m.”: Meade to Mrs. Meade, June 29, 1863, in The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, ed. George Gordon Meade (1913), 2:11-12.
“to find and fight the enemy”: Life and Letters of Meade, 11.
“The sun of the 2nd of July … anywhere else”: The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (1908), 3:20-21.
“We heard a confused noise … the hostile wave”: Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, 22-23.
“We had a great fight yesterday”: Meade to Mrs. Meade, July 3, 1863, Life and Letters of Meade, 2:103.
“Great God!…to strike him”: George E. Pickett, The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A. (1913), 94.
“I found him like a great lion…‘lead my division on’ ”: Pickett, The Heart of a Soldier, 98-99; James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox (1896), 392.
“Every eye could see his legions”: Haskell of Gettysburg: His Life and Civil War Papers, ed. Frank L. Byrne and Andrew T. Weaver (1970), 158.
“And so all across … ended and won”: Haskell of Gettysburg, 160-70.
“All this has been my fault”: “A Piece of Secret History,” Scribner’s Monthly (1875-76), 520.
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“How long ago is it?”: Lincoln response to serenade, July 7, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:319-20.
“If General Meade can complete his work”: Lincoln to Halleck, July 7, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:319.
“If I had gone up there”: Hay diary entry for July 15, 1863, in William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (1915), 1:194.
“I do not believe you appreciate”: Lincoln to Meade (not sent), July 14, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:327-28.
“I was deeply mortified”: Lincoln to Howard, July 21, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:341.
“The Father of Waters again goes unvexed”: Lincoln to James Conkling, Aug. 26, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:409.
“Look at his campaign”: Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1863, in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher (1996), 11.
“I do not remember”: Lincoln to Grant, July 13, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:326.
“On every floor”: David M. Barnes, The Draft Riots in New York, July 1863 (1863), 83-84, 87.
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“Not only the length of the war”: Halleck to Sherman, Aug. 29, 1863, Memoirs of Sherman, 360.
“The inhabitants of the country … end is attained”: Sherman to Halleck, Sept. 17, 1863, Memoirs of Sherman, 360-67.
“The people in the Mississippi Valley”: to Chase, July 21, 1863.
“It is earnestly recommended”: General Orders No. 50, Aug. 1, 1863.
“At all military posts”: General Orders No. 51, Aug. 10, 1863, Papers of Grant, 9:135-36n.
“All able-bodied negro men”: General Orders No. 53, Aug. 23, 1863, Papers of Grant, 9:136n.
“I believe it is a resource”: Lincoln to Grant, Aug. 9, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:374.
“I have given the subject of arming the negro”: to Lincoln, Aug. 23, 1863.
“I never was an abolitionist”: to Washburne, Aug. 30, 1863.
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“My going could do no possible good”: to Washburne, Aug. 30, 1863.
“He considers it indispensible”: Stanton to Halleck, Oct. 19, 1863, Papers of Grant, 9:298n.
“By the middle of October … to dislodge us”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1899), 127-30.
“Am still confined to my bed”: to Halleck, Sept. 19, 1863.
“Hold Chattanooga at all hazards”: to Thomas, Oct. 19, 1863.
“I arrived here … I cannot tell”: to Halleck, Oct. 26, 1863.
“We were within easy range”: Memoirs, 413.
“We held him at our mercy”: Bragg report, Dec. 28, 1863, Official Records, 1:30(2):37.
“In a week the troops … I rode off”: Memoirs, 418-21.
“If we can hold Chattanooga”: Lincoln to Rosecrans, Oct. 4, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 6:498.
“There was no relief possible”: Memoirs, 425.
“I do not know how to impress on you”: to Burnside, Nov. 15, 1863.
“Drop everything east of Bear Creek”: to Sherman, Oct. 24, 1863.
“As I sat on the porch … because of his looks”: Memoirs of Sherman, 383-84.
“Leave directions for your command”: to Sherman, Nov. 13, 1863.
“Sherman’s advance has reached Bridgeport”: to Burnside, Nov. 14, 1863.
“If you retreat now”: Halleck to Burnside, Nov. 16, 1863, Official Records, 1:31(3):163.
“I fear he will not fight”: Halleck to Grant, Nov. 16, 1863, Official Records, 1:31(3):163.
“I am pushing everything”: to Halleck, Nov. 16, 1863.
“So far you are doing exactly”: to Burnside, Nov. 17, 1863.
“Grant was always sanguine”: Adam Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to April 1865 (1881-85), 1:464-65.
“There was the greatest hopefulness”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 141.
“I think the rebel force”: to Halleck, Nov. 2, 1863.
“I felt restless beyond anything”: to John Kelton (for Halleck), Dec. 23, 1863.
“We had a magnificent view”: Memoirs of Sherman, 387.
“Every arrangement is now made”: to Burnside, Nov. 14, 1863.
“If you can communicate”: to Willcox, Nov. 20, 1863.
“It will be impossible”: to Halleck, Nov. 21, 1863.
“Until we opened fire”: Meigs report, Nov. 26, 1863, Official Records, 1:31(2):77.
“It was marvelous … so quietly and so well”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 147.
“Hooker will attack Lookout”: to Halleck, Nov. 15, 1863.
“A full moon made the battlefield”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 148.
“The fight today progressed favorably”: to Halleck, Nov. 24, 1863.
“Well done”: Lincoln to Grant, Nov. 25, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 7:30.
“I congratulate you”: Halleck to Grant, Nov. 25, 1863, Official Records, 1:31(2):25.
“At daylight on the 25th”: Meigs report, Nov. 26, 1863, Official Records, 1:31(2):78.
“The whole field was in full view”: Memoirs, 443.
“The enemy kept firing shells at us”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 149.
“The rebel pickets … thunder upon them”: Meigs report, Nov. 26, 1863, Official Records, 1:31(2):79.
“The storming of the ridge … whole corps went up”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 150-51.
“Glory to God!”: Dana, Recollections of the Civil War, 150.
“Although the battle lasted”: to Halleck, Nov. 25, 1863.
“The
next thing now”: to Sherman, Nov. 25, 1863.
“I made this change”: to Halleck, Nov. 29, 1863.
“Do not be forced into a surrender”: to Burnside, Nov. 29, 1863.
“Approaching from the south and west”: Sherman, Memoirs, 393-94.
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“The Western Victory”: New York Times, Nov. 28, 1863.
“I wish to tender you”: Lincoln to Grant, Dec. 8, 1863, Works of Lincoln, 7:53.
“most distinguished for courage, skill, and ability”: H.R. 26, 38th Congress, 1st session, Dec. 14, 1863.
“Look at what this man has done”: Congressional Globe, 38:1:430.
“Your successful military career”: from Burns, Dec. 7, 1863, Papers of Grant, 9:542n.
“The question astonishes me”: to Burns, Dec. 17, 1863.
“I am not a politician”: to Morris, Jan. 20, 1864.
“It is on a subject”: to Blair, Feb. 28, 1864.
“I am glad to say”: to Mrs. Isaac Quinby, Dec. 13, 1863.
“Bragg was a remarkably intelligent…superior military genius”: Memoirs, 449-50.
“You are Southern”: Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 106.
“captured property”: Memoirs of Sherman, 373-75.
“Why should I ever”: Sherman to Ellen Sherman, Oct. 10, 1863, Home Letters of General Sherman (1909), 276.
“My Dear Friend”: Memoirs, 373-75.
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“I shall direct Sherman”: to Halleck, Jan. 15, 1864.
“The expedition is one of celerity”: Special Field Orders No. 11, Jan. 27, 1864, Official Records, 1:32(1):182.
“The bill reviving the grade”: to Sherman, March 4, 1864.
“You are now Washington’s legitimate successor … of the Atlantic”: Sherman to Grant, March 10, 1864, Memoirs of Sherman, 428-29.
“I cannot make a speech”: Missouri Democrat, Jan. 29, 1864, in Papers of Grant, 10:71n.
“I shall make a very short speech”: John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln (1890), 8:340-41.
“The nation’s appreciation”: Lincoln speech, March 9, 1864, Works of Lincoln, 7:234.
“The general had hurriedly”: Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, 8:341-42.
“I accept the commission”: Grant speech, March 9, 1864.
“I listened respectfully”: Memoirs, 474.
“Well, I hardly know”: William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times (1890), 220-21.
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“to move against Johnston’s army”: to Sherman, April 4, 1864.
“This incident gave me”: Memoirs, 470.
“Grant is not a striking man”: The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, vol. 2 (1913), 191.
“I do not know that the enemy’s attack”: to Julia Dent Grant, April 17, 1864.
“Nothing prevents my advancing now”: Lee to Davis, Aug. 24, 1863, Official Records, 1:29(2):665.
“our crying necessity for food”: Lee to Davis, Jan. 11, 1864, Official Records, 1:33:1076.
“I can learn of no supply”: Lee to Davis, Jan. 2, 1864, Official Records, 1:33:1061.
“If it requires all the meat”: Lee to J. L. Kemper, Jan. 29, 1864, Official Records, 1:33:1128.
“Today closes the gloomiest year”: Richmond Examiner, Dec. 31, 1863, in The Rebellion Record, ed. Frank Moore (1865), 8:29.
“A cruel enemy seeks to reduce”: General Orders No. 102, Nov. 26, 1863, James D. McCabe Jr., Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee (1866), 426.
“He said that with the great responsibilities”: Charles S. Venable, “General Lee in the Wilderness Campaign,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887), 4:240.
“The reports of General Lee’s scouts … which confronted them”: John B. Gordon, Reminiscences of the Civil War (1904), 235-36.
“Each plan presents great advantages”: to Meade, April 9, 1864.
“What I ask is that”: to Butler, April 16, 1864.
“I will move against Lee’s army”: to Halleck, April 29, 1864.
“This is my forty-second birthday”: to Julia Dent Grant, April 27, 1864.
“Before you receive this”: to Julia Dent Grant, May 2, 1864.
“Not expecting to see you”: Lincoln to Grant, April 30, 1864, Works of Lincoln, 7:324.
“The confidence you express”: to Lincoln, May 1, 1864.
“The movement of this Army”: to Burnside, May 2, 1864.
“The crossing of Rapidan effected”: to Halleck, May 4, 1864.
“It was uneven”: Alexander S. Webb, “Through the Wilderness,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 4:154.
“My command had cut its way”: Gordon, Reminiscences, 239-41.
“By the blessing of God”: Lee report, May 5, 1864, Official Records, 1:36(1):1028.
“We have engaged with the enemy”: to Halleck, May 6, 1864.
“The enemy advanced”: Lee report, May 6, 1864, Official Records, 1:36(1):1028.
“Yesterday the enemy attacked our lines”: to Halleck, May 7, 1864.
“More desperate fighting has not been witnessed”: Memoirs, 534.
“We are very much troubled”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1899), 188, 194.
“He discussed the dominant characteristics”: Gordon, Reminiscences, 267-68.
“General Grant is not going to retreat … answer—Spotsylvania”: Gordon, Reminiscences, 268-70.
“Rank after rank”: Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (1907), 110-11.
“Firing into one another’s faces”: Gordon, Reminiscences, 284.
“The ground around the salient”: Dana, Recollections, 196-97.
“Our losses have been heavy … takes all summer”: to Stanton, May 11, 1864.
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“I am satisfied the enemy are very shaky”: to Halleck, May 11, 1864.
“The world has never seen”: to Julia Dent Grant, May 13, 1864.
“Lee’s army is really whipped”: to Halleck, May 26, 1864.
“One of the most important results”: Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1899), 204.
“There has been a very severe battle”: to Julia Dent Grant, June 1, 1864.
“In passing along on foot”: Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (1907), 174-75.
“The Second Corps assaulted the enemy’s position”: Hancock report, Nov. 8, 1864, Official Records, 1:36(1):366-67.
“Our loss was not severe”: to Halleck, June 3, 1864.
“I have always regretted”: Memoirs, 588.
“the very bad news from Fort Pillow”: John Sherman to William Sherman, April 17, 1864, The Sherman Letters (1894), 233.
“The river was dyed”: Forrest to Thomas Jack, April 15, 1864, Official Records, 1:32(1):610.
“Three hundred blacks murdered”: from Sherman, April 15, 1865, Official Records, 1:32(3):367.
“We all feel that we must disband”: John Sherman to William Sherman, April 17, 1864, Sherman Letters, 233-34.
“Having determined to use the negro”: Lincoln speech, April 18, 1864, Works of Lincoln, 7:302.
“Lincoln drafted an order”: Lincoln to Stanton, May 17, 1864, Works of Lincoln, 7:345.
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“I now find … without this protection”: to Halleck, June 5, 1864.
“But the move had to be made”: Memoirs, 591.
“We must destroy this army”: Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee, comp. J. William Jones (1875), 40.
“Every rail on the road”: to Meade (instructions for Sheridan), June 5, 1864.
“The complete destruction of this road … destroy the canal”: to Hunter, June 6, 1864.
“His cigar had been thrown aside”: David Porter, Campaigning with Grant (1907), 199-200.
“Since Sunday we have been engaged”: to Julia Dent Grant, June 15, 1864.
“The enemy show no signs”: to Halleck, June 14, 1864.
“I begin to see it”: Lincoln to Grant, June 15, 1864, Wo
rks of Lincoln, 7:393.
“I believed then”: Memoirs, 599.
“We will rest the men”: to Meade, June 18, 1864.
“Our work progresses here slowly”: to Julia Dent Grant, June 22, 1864.
“You people up North”: to J. Russell Jones, July 5, 1864.
“The immense slaughter of our brave men”: Welles diary, June 2, 1864, Diary of Gideon Welles (1911), 2:44.
“I hope you are very well … that very stuff”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 217.
“Like most men … a genuine friendship”: Porter, Campaigning with Grant, 218-24.
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“immediate efforts be made”: Democratic platform, Aug. 29, 1864.
“It was the saddest affair”: to Halleck, Aug. 1, 1864.
“Admiral Porter has always said”: Welles diary, Aug. 2, 1864, Diary of Gideon Welles (1911), 2:92.
“I write to put you in possession”: Smith to Foot, July 30, 1864, Papers of Grant, 11:207-09n.
“The General was at the front today”: Rawlins to Mrs. Rawlins, June 29, 1864, in James Harrison Wilson, The Life of John A. Rawlins (1916), 239.
“There never was any such happening”: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler (1892), 698, 713.
“I have sometimes thought … are upon us”: Welles diary, July 6, 8, 11, 1864, Diary of Welles, 2:68-72.
“Let us be vigilant”: Lincoln to Thomas Swann et al., July 10, 1864, Works of Lincoln, 7:438.
“General Halleck says”: Lincoln to Grant, July 10, 1864, ibid., 437.
“I have sent from here”: to Lincoln, July 10, 1864.
“Could see the line of pickets”: Welles diary, July 11, 1864, Diary of Welles, 2:72-73.
“We haven’t taken Washington”: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, ed. Gary W. Gallagher (2006), xi.
“The Rebels have lost”: Welles diary, July 11, 1864, Diary of Welles, 2:73.
“The sun was just sinking”: Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1885), 375.
“The people are wild for peace … hope of success”: Weed to Seward, Aug. 22, 1864, in John G. Nicolay and John Hay, “Abraham Lincoln: A History,” Century (1889), 548.