The president announced that he did not want the South: Brodie, 287.
Privately, he said that he expected to see: J. M. Taylor, 260.
These days, Seward saw himself as a man: Brodie, 285.
In St. Louis, Johnson assured the crowd: Brodie, 281.
“The President of the United States cannot enter upon an exchange”: McKitrick, 438.
Appealing for “your attention for five minutes”: McKitrick, 431.
What Grant had said privately to General John Rawlins: McKitrick, 428 note.
Accompanying the tour was Sylvanus Cadwallader: Cadwallader, 350.
When subordinates refused to intervene: Cadwallader, 104.
Rawlins made it clear to junior officers: Cadwallader, 119.
Whenever she turned up in camp: Cadwallader, 118.
At last, Rawlins advised her to engage a reputable: Cadwallader, 120.
On this tour with Andrew Johnson, Grant was confirming: Cadwallader, 116.
There, Gideon Welles’s son, Edgar: Niven, Welles, 552.
Seward owed his impassive expression: Stewart, 60.
When Seward fulfilled the obligation: J. M. Taylor, 263.
But when Johnson also arrived: J. M. Taylor, 266.
Losing Fanny, he said, he felt “a sorrow”: J. M. Taylor, 266.
“ ‘The Radicals would thrust the Negro into your parlors’ ”: Brodie, 288.
The scourge of Radical Republicans, Bennett: McKitrick, 441.
Since Raymond enjoyed an agreement with the Times owner: McKitrick, 442.
“Yes, yes, they are ready to impeach”: McKitrick, 435.
CHAPTER 9. EDWIN STANTON (1867–1868)
When Edwin McMasters Stanton first met Abraham Lincoln: Goodwin, 174.
Ten years later, as Lincoln’s secretary of war: Goodwin, 743; Thomas, 399.
During campaigns, he was free with insults: Thomas, 25.
Stanton wrote to a friend that the “calamity: Thomas, 35.
“Events of the past summer,” Stanton began one letter: Thomas, 41.
“There are not many pretty faces on the avenue”: Thomas, 51.
Stanton not only got Sickles acquitted, but in the process: Thomas, 84.
With the onset of the war: Goodwin, 383.
He anticipated the anger it would arouse: Goodwin, 401.
To a friend, the president said that Stanton’s: Pratt, 469.
He granted to his niece that Stanton was: Pratt, 470.
“He gets wrought to so high a pitch”: Thomas, 151.
The president called it, “Going to see Old Mars”: Pratt, 143.
“You have done your best to sacrifice this army”: Pratt, 211.
“Stanton is the most unmitigated scoundrel”: Thomas, 209.
“I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield”: Pratt, 206.
To which, the president said mildly, “Mr. Secretary”: Pratt, 321.
“Couldn’t let go his basket to unbutton”: Thomas, 383.
He had come to appreciate the fact: Niven, Welles, 525.
When he was forced to state his position: Niven, Welles, 572.
“Reconstruction is more difficult”: Pratt, 443.
Speaking to officials from Alabama, the president called: Trefousse, Johnson, 270.
Johnson learned just how outraged congressmen were: Yale Law, Impeachment, iv, 1.
As a result, Southern courthouses could punish: Thomas, 516.
Their test was a bill to extend voting rights in the District: Trefousse, Johnson, 273.
Meeting in private with Charles Nordhoff: Trefousse, Johnson, 279. Nordhoff’s grandson, Charles Bernard Nordhoff, was the coauthor of Mutiny on the Bounty.
In the House, Thaddeus Stevens’s version not only included cabinet appointees: Brodie, 297.
But for less easily identifiable offenses, George Mason: Stewart, 78.
Thaddeus Stevens then attached that language: Brodie, 296.
General Philip Sheridan, who was now commanding Texas and Louisiana: Pratt, 449.
Pinchback accused the Southern aristocracy: Haskins, 52–54.
Pinchback attacked a measure to strip several categories: Haskins, 60.
General Lafayette Baker from the War Department: Yale Law, Impeachment, iv, 2–3.
The New York World called Alaska a “sucked-dry orange”: J. M. Taylor, 278.
He would change his mind if “the Secretary of State”: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 307.
Kate considered Alice Sumner a “flutterfly”: Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 14, 1898.
One midnight at a dance, guests heard: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 290.
One shrewd Washington matron thought: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 291 note.
He asked, “Where are you going”: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 292.
As Sumner protested in vain, she cursed: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 294.
She let it be known that she had left: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 314.
Charles Sumner became “The Great Impotent”: Donald, Sumner . . . Rights, 314.
Varina Davis overcame her contempt: Dodd, 368.
his critics suggested that his chief concern: Cooper, 560.
As attorneys for Davis wrangled over his case: Cooper, 563.
Lee assured his former president that Davis’s release: Cooper, 568.
He had already decided to remove Edwin Stanton: Niven, Welles, 549.
The president had worked himself up to a white heat: J. Grant, 165.
“I thought, Mr. Stanton, it was but just”: J. Grant, 165.
The president told the faithful Gideon Welles, “If Congress can bring”: Pratt, 450.
He railed against the prospect of “negro domination”: J. E. Smith, 443.
Wilson asked, “Are we to impeach the President”: Yale Law, Impeachment, iv, 2.
CHAPTER 10. SALMON PORTLAND CHASE (1868)
The day after their embarrassing defeat: Stewart, 112.
He wrote to William Sherman, “All the”: Grant, Papers, 17, 343.
The angry correspondence ended: J. E. Smith, 451.
“He is a bolder man than I thought him”: Brodie, 332.
William Fessenden, despite his regular clashes: Brodie, 333.
But, Stevens concluded, “Grant isn’t on trial”: Brodie, 334.
His first choice was John Potts: Thomas, 580.
Put in charge of abandoned plantations: Blue, 199.
Stanton felt only contempt: Thomas, 163.
Describing Thomas as “only fit”: Stewart, 132.
For his part, Thomas was either more forgiving: Thomas, 379.
And Johnson expected that “the nation”: Thomas, 582.
Inadvertently, however, Thomas had deprived: Thomas, 583.
Formally, Thomas said, “I am directed”: Thomas, 584.
Johnson went to report to his cabinet: Thomas, 584.
Senators were sending their own: Thomas, 585.
the weekend commemorating George Washington’s: Thomas, 587.
Judge Carter had accepted Stanton’s affidavit: Stewart, 139.
The two men exchanged good mornings: Ross, 118.
“Thomas: I am Secretary of War ad interim”: New York Times, February 22, 1868; Ross, 118.
Thomas reported later that he told Stanton: Stewart, 139.
The New York Times reporter was convinced: New York Times, February 22, 1868.
Brooks called Stanton’s refusal to resign: Brodie, 335.
He claimed that “Robespierre, Marat and Danton”: Stewart, 144.
Johnson sent to the Senate the name of Thomas Ewing: Stewart, 145.
Now he advised Johnson to begin: Stewart, 147.
Fuller had already bribed enough clerks: Stewart, 147.
Stevens assured his listeners unconvincingly: Congressional Globe, 40 Congress, 2 session, February 24, 1865, 1399–1400; Brodie, 336.
The Republicans chose Stevens and Ohio representative: Korngold, 419.
Finding
limited support: Schuckers, 76.
Lincoln explained privately: Goodwin, 635.
Chase had been attracted to: Blue, 10.
He found “her features large”: Blue, 23.
Since early in the century: Blue, 28.
Yet as a lawyer, Chase took up: Schuckers, 52.
It would do more to show “the true character”: Blue, 107.
But when a political bulletin listed: Beatty, 45.
At the Baltimore convention: Beatty, 52.
He overcame his own antipathy to paper money: Blue, 151.
When Chase was chosen, Frank Blair told his brother: Blue, 245.
Lincoln concluded that he “would despise myself”: Goodwin, 679.
In the Senate, Charles Sumner called: Blue, 242.
When a jubilant Charles Sumner hurried to tell: Blue, 245.
CHAPTER 11. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WADE (1868)
observing him later in life: Trefousse, Wade, 18–19.
“Until the laws of nature and of nature’s God”: Trefousse, Wade, 36.
“As the world goes,” he wrote to his wife: Trefousse, Wade, 53.
As he explained, “I cannot and will not”: Trefousse, Wade, 63.
In Washington, Wade enjoyed being a senator: Trefousse, Wade, 73.
At the theater, the former cattle driver: Trefousse, Wade, 93–94. It is possible that Wade was playing to his uncouth reputation.
Despite his earlier rejection of dueling: Trefousse, Wade, 103.
“I know it isn’t so bad to have no religion”: Trefousse, Wade, 125.
Wade pulled his carriage across the route: Trefousse, Wade, 150.
He had summed up Henry Seward: Trefousse, Wade, 154.
“If any of them come back”: Trefousse, Wade, 167.
“Are the President and Mrs. Lincoln aware”: Trefousse, Wade, 167.
Already in his midsixties, Wade threw himself: Trefousse, Wade, 268.
Writing to Susan B. Anthony in November 1866: Trefousse, Wade, 288.
Congress “cannot quietly regard the terrible distinction”: Trefousse, Wade, 287.
Kate’s anger with his vacillation alarmed her doting father: Niven, Chase, 424.
“I’ll see you damned first”: Bumgardner, 72.
Since throwing in his lot with the Radicals: Nolan, 329.
Butler had wanted to see Andrew Johnson: Stewart, 194.
When the subject turned to heavy drinking: Stewart, 208.
They were bound only: Stewart, 195.
At one point, he praised the Constitution: Martinez, 49.
Butler’s theatrics could not substitute: Stewart, 199.
He was replaced by William Evarts: Niven, Welles, 562.
But Seward joined with Thurlow Weed in raising: J. M. Taylor, 284.
And when Seward happened to encounter William Fessenden: J. M. Taylor, 285.
Defense lawyers wanted to buttress that argument: Blue, 279.
Sherman was permitted to report: Ross, 129.
A Philadelphia journalist reported that Stevens: Korngold, 421.
But when his turn came: Ross, 214.
Yet he concluded by demanding: Korngold, 423.
the politics of Weed’s latest paper: Van Deusen, 325.
With no apparent irony, Butler also was offering: Stewart, 246.
As Salmon Chase put on his robe: Blue, 280.
But like other conservatives: Kennedy, 136.
Born so tiny that his mother could cover: Bumgardner, 15.
by 1859, the lure of expanding opportunities: Bumgardner, 39.
Major Ross survived but only after two horses had been shot: Harrington, 44.
Senator James Lane had voted against: McKitrick, 323.
“We need a man with backbone”: Harrington, 49.
“There is a bushel of money!”: Harrington, 72.
As another point of attack: Stewart, 266.
General Daniel Sickles, removed by Johnson: Harrington, 73; Stewart, 270.
The second time, firmly and audibly: Bumgardner, 95.
“Your motives were Indian contracts”: Harrington, 76.
If Congress did not remove Johnson: Brodie, 350.
Now bitterness and frustration gave Stevens: Trefousee, Stevens, 234.
Former Tennessee representative Thomas Nelson: Stewart, 278.
To a New York Times reporter: Stewart, 278.
On May 26, the second and third articles: Trefousse, Wade, 328.
the New York Sun was describing Johnson: Brodie, 329.
Publicly, Chase claimed that “the subject”: Blue, 282.
“Bribery and personal vindictiveness”: Sumner, Letters, II, 427.
Pliant senators were offered: Stewart, 186.
But Pomeroy was among the most Radical: Kennedy, 122.
witnesses, who included Thurlow Weed: Stewart, 286.
When an enterprising reporter: Stewart, 297.
A thirty-seven-year-old West Point graduate: Stewart, 223.
Ross wrote that the appointment was “vital”: Stewart, 298.
CHAPTER 12. NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST (1868)
the president would now be free to proclaim: Trefousse, Johnson, 333.
One such man, condemned by his neighbors as a scalawag: Trefousse, Johnson, 333.
Half a dozen young Confederate officers: Hurst, Forrest, 278.
Their town had been named for Casimir Pulaski: Chalmers, 8.
As an oath, candidates were only required: Wade, 34.
One of the six founders pointed out: Wade, 37.
A Klan member might carry a skeleton’s arm: Wade, 35.
Captain George Judd, the Freedmen’s Bureau agent: Chalmers, 9.
In April 1867, men from various supremacist: Chalmers, 9.
The South became the Empire: Trelease, 14–15.
The official pennant featured a flying dragon: Wade, 39.
“This is an institution of Chivalry”: Trelease, 16.
Forrest set up his own regiment: Wills, 45.
“If we are whipped,” Forrest told them: Hurst, Forrest, 5.
“Come on, boys, if you want a heap of fun”: Wills, 71.
Forrest brushed aside a doctor: Hurst, Forrest, 129.
A Confederate soldier wrote to his sister: Hurst, Forrest, 173.
When Fitch requested the protection: Hurst, Forrest, 176–77.
In his official report to Jefferson Davis: Wyeth, 333.
In its account of the battle, the Chicago Tribune: Hurst, Forrest, 179.
When the scandal reached the White House: Hurst, Forrest, 180.
At the war’s end, Forrest won praise: Foote, 1002.
Testimony developed that Forrest had become outraged: Wills, 327.
Forrest acknowledged that “I am”: Wills, 334.
When Johnson approved his pardon: Wade, 17.
witnesses claimed that during the 1867: Hurst, Forrest, 285; Wills, 336.
Police had told a group of parading Negroes: Trelease, 26.
“This is no joke either. This is cold, hard”: Trelease, 22–23.
A Citizen reporter wrote that the leader: Trelease, 23.
Dens were being set up in small towns: Chalmers, 10.
In South Carolina, where Negroes constituted a majority: Chalmers, 11.
Captain Judd of the Freedmen’s Bureau: Trelease, 24–25.
“Unless something is done immediately”: Wade, 45.
Captain Judd was accused of running the League: Trelease, 25.
“Speak in whispers and we hear you”: Wade, 42.
In later testimony, General Forrest estimated: Tourgee, 29.
“That they would never submit”: Tourgee, 31.
He believed that the people would ultimately: Trefousse, Johnson, 335.
At the Democratic convention in July: Trefousse, Johnson, 339.
“I have experienced ingratitude”: Trefousse, Johnson, 339.
“Have a care,” he instructed: Niven, Chase, 432.
In William Fessenden’s view, “Andy”: Trefou
sse, Johnson, 340.
In his final message to Congress: Trefousse, Johnson, 341.
To Stevens, that safeguard was the only way: Brodie, 361.
The convention backed away: Brodie, 360.
And yet, Stevens was confident: Brodie, 363.
“My life has been a failure”: Brodie, 363.
“Especially present my compliments”: Brodie, 365.
Stevens’s will left five hundred dollars a year: Brodie, 365.
As a final note of respect, his local Republican: Brodie, 366.
New York newspapers acknowledged the sweep: New York Times, August 13, 1868; New York Tribune, August 12, 1868.
In 1905, an evangelist and writer named Thomas Dixon, Jr.: Dixon, xi.
Dixon gave Stoneman a heavy brown wig: Dixon, 39.
“We must assimilate or expel”: Dixon, 46.
CHAPTER 13. ULYSSES S. GRANT (1869)
She sympathized with those who thought: J. Grant, 170.
Now, as the Republicans departed: J. Grant, 171.
“Mrs. Grant, you must now be prepared”: J. Grant, 172.
A loud and ornery voice at town meetings: Perry, 3–4; Wilentz, in Isaacson, 63.
Getting ready to leave for New York: Wilson, 133.
In a letter to a cousin, Grant showed: U. S. Grant, Memoirs, 878.
His good friend James “Pete” Longstreet: J. E. Smith, 26.
Somewhat shy, Grant could not match: Farina, 3.
At graduation in 1843, Granted ranked twenty-first: Waugh, 24.
Given a family history of consumption: U. S. Grant, Memoirs, 34.
A merchant’s daughter pampered by four indulgent: Waugh, 25.
When Grant proposed, however: J. Grant, 52.
Scott, as Grant noted later: U. S. Grant, Memoirs, 95.
As for the Mexican war itself: Waugh, 31; Wilson, 133.
He could not understand, he said, “how human beings”: U. S. Grant, Memoirs, 119.
with Pete Longstreet as his best man: Waugh, 33.
As the bride observed, “I had had four years”: J. Grant, 55.
According to a story circulating at his post: Waugh, 38.
When Julia’s father gave him a slave: Waugh, 42; Wilentz in Isaacson, 64.
With Julia at his side, Grant could usually control: Waugh, 39.
Worried that a Republican victory: U. S. Grant, Memoirs, 144.
Southern extremists would calm down: U. S. Grant, Memoirs, 145.
“No terms except immediate and unconditional”: Farina, 88.
He had not come out to fight: Kastler, 53.
Pillow would be more useful: Farina, 87.
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