“We had a great blowout” Ibid., 207-208.
“No further destruction” SCW, 834.
“As far as the eye can reach” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 144.
“It is all over with us” Ibid.
“the gentlemanly bearing” Barrett, Sherman’s March, 248.
“a temporary suspension” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 143.
“I undertake to abide” Ibid., 148.
“will be followed” through “all the details” SCW, 862.
“it would be the greatest” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 142.
“Messiah” Foner, Reconstruction, 73.
“Don’t kneel to me” Lyman, Quotations, 159.
“If I were in your place” Winik, April 1865, 208.
“It has been intimated to me” Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 694.
“He has a face” Betts, Lincoln and the Poets, 37-38.
“Let us convert” Hyman, Radical Republicans, 37.
Henry A. Wise Cauble, Proceedings, 189.
“very greatly rejoiced” through “I presented the question” Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 696.
Lincoln’s speech of April 11, 1865 Ibid., 697-701.
“just seen” Ibid., 701.
“to effect” through “had perhaps made a mistake” Donald, Lincoln, 59.
“Do not allow them” Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 701-702.
“About fifty generals” Julia’s account of their arrival in Washington, JDG, 153-54.
“Mr. Lincoln is indisposed” PUSG, XIV: 483-84.
“To this plan” and “This was all satisfactory” JDG, 154.
“the reduction of the army” Julia Grant’s account of the events of April 14 begins in JDG, 154–56.
“We can’t undertake” The account of the cabinet meeting of April 14, Donald, Lincoln, 590–92.
“This same dark, pale man” The remainder of Julia Grant’s account of the events of April 14 is in JDG, 156-57.
“Sic semper tyrannis” Donald, Lincoln, 597.
“The South shall be free!” Kauffman, American Brutus, 7.
The account of the attack on Seward is based on Winik, April 1865, 224-26.
“Why didn’t he shoot me!” Kauffman, American Brutus, 625.
“Mr. Lincoln cannot recover” Ibid., 34.
“Now he belongs to the ages” Donald, Lincoln, 599.
Empty frame in the window. Epstein, Lincoln and Whitman, 275.
“seemed stupefied” Davis, Lincoln’s Men, 239-40.
“He was our best friend” Ibid.
“What a hold Old Abe had” Ibid., 239.
“The United States has lost” Lewis, Yankee Admiral, 167.
“The President stood before us” Emerson’s eulogy is at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LINCOLN/Emersonl.html.
“Hush’d Be the Camps To-day” Whitman, Complete Poetry, 468.
Sherman learns of Lincoln’s assassination SM, 836.
“As soon as we were alone” through “satisfying me that” Ibid., 837–38.
“the great mass” and “to watch the soldiers” SM, 838.
“The army is crazy for” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 163; for a related incident, see pp. 163-65.
“We’ll Hang Jeff Davis,” the thwarted riotous march, and “Had it not been” M, 343-44.
“to express our utmost abhorrence” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 165.
“they all dreaded” SM, 839.
“escape from the country” and “If asked for” SM, 840.
Meeting between Sherman and Johnston Ibid.
“There is great danger” SCW, 863.
Remainder of Sherman-Johnston meeting SM, 841-42.
17. SHERMAN IN TROUBLE
“not to vary” and “if approved” SM, 843-44.
“I can see no slip” SCW, 867.
The full text of Sherman’s terms for surrender is in Bradley, This Astounding Close, 268–69.
“I have rec’d” PUSG, XIV: 423.
“the greatest consternation” GMS, 756.
“seemed frantic” and “victorious legions” LL, 550.
“You will give notice” PUSG, XIV: 423–24n.
“The rebels know well” Ibid., 424.
“It is now nearly 11 O’Clock” Ibid., 428.
“I dread the change” JDG, 156.
“On to Mexico” McFeely, Grant, 221.
“For myself I would enjoy” PUSG, XIV: 405.
“They hope, it is said” LL, 550-51.
Stanton’s statement to the press New York Times, April 24, 1865.
Halleck’s orders to disregard Sherman SM, 860-61.
“there is some screw loose again” Marszalek, Commander, 223.
“like the true and loyal soldier that he was” GMS, 756.
“I therefore demand” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 211.
“Grant is here” Davis, Sherman’s March, 273.
Chicago Tribune LL, 553.
“I admit my folly” SM, 850-51.
“The suffering that must exist” PUSG, XIV: 435n.
“to insure a crop” and “enlightened and humane” LL, 556.
Grant’s written endorsement PUSG, XIV: 435n.
“on the basis” Ibid., 434.
“I have just returned” Ibid., 436. This indicates that Grant was not yet aware of the furor caused by Stanton’s statement to the press. In his memoirs written twenty years later, he said that he saw newspapers carrying this story when he was at Golds-boro, North Carolina, returning to Washington after meeting with Sherman.
Newspaper reactions LL, 552.
“usurped more than” and “loyal men deplore” New Haven Journal, ibid.
“I knew that Sherman” GMS, 736.
“It is infamous” Simpson, Grant, 446.
“like a caged lion” through “the fellows that wielded” LL, 557.
“Tell General Slocum.” Liddell-Hart, Shennan, 399.
“I do think that my Rank” PUSG, XV: 13n. This also appears, with slight variations, in SM, 861.
“send a copy to Mr. Stanton” SCW, 884.
Sherman’s calculation regarding the gold and the capture of Jefferson Davis SM, 861.
“I doubt not” Ibid., 884.
“I have no hesitation” Ibid., 885.
“an act of Perfidy” Sherman’s Special Field Orders No. 69, SCW, 891n.
Special Field Orders No 69 Ibid.
“You have not had” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 249.
“I cannot possible reconcile” and “I will march my Army” SCW, 895-96.
“secretary Stanton’s newspaper order” Ibid.
“I know of no order” Ibid., 27.
“I do think a great outrage” Ibid., 894.
“not know how to answer” through “made no change in my estimate” PUSG, XV: 12.
“very spick and span” LL, 566.
“truly charmed” Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 316-17.
Cincinnati Commercial and Louisville Journal M, 350.
“I think you have made” Fellman, Sherman, 251.
“for a time you lost” Ibid.
“act prudently” Merrill, Sherman, 297.
“It is amusing” Liddell-Hart, Sherman, 400.
“must expect open defiance” Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 319.
“a set of sneaks” SCW, 897.
“look out … or they would have” Merrill, Sherman, 277.
18. GRANT, SHERMAN, AND THE RADICALS
“a military commander interferes” and “My terms of surrender” SG, 418.
“placed in that relation to the military forces” PUSG, XV: 40-41.
“assigning you to command” Ibid., 43.
“very kind” PUSG, XV: 52, 52n.
“would respectfully recommend” and “Citizens of the Southern States” PUSG, XV: 48.
Grant’s testimony PUSG, XV: 45-46. This exchange also appears in U.S. Congress’s Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: 1524.<
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“to hell with your reveille” Glatthaar, March, 184. It reads as, “To h__I with your reveille.”
“where I will move” SCW, 883.
“All my army” Ibid., 901.
“I am just in receipt” PUSG, XV: 72.
“the threats of Gen. Sherman” LL, 567.
“General Sherman, I am very glad” M, 353.
19. A PARADE FOR EVERYONE, AND A HEARING FOR SHERMAN
“Great Rush of Visitors” New York Times, May 23, 1865.
“I am informed” PUSG, XV: 115.
“I present this saddle” Ibid., 666.
“General Sherman was in no mood” LL, 569.
“Dear Van” through “I prefer to give” Fellman, Sherman, 255.
“Stanton wants to kill me” SCW, 896.
“Of course I have nothing to do with” Ibid., 795.
“I am to go before” Bradley, This Astounding Close, 251-52.
“Have been taking a walk” Whitman, Prose Works, I: 105.
“Please direct” PUSG, XV: 87n.
“I sometimes feel very nervous” Meade’s remark can be found at http://history-sites.com/alcwmb/old-archive/archivefiles/6371.html.
Sherman’s testimony U.S. Congress, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: 423.
“Gen. Sherman and his brother” New York Times, May 23, 1865.
“Many grizzled veterans” Flood, Lee, 27.
“What regiment are you?” Leech, Reveille, 414-15.
20. THE PAST AND FUTURE MARCH UP PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
Sherman’s family It is not clear whether Sherman’s family was in the reviewing stand on May 23. Sherman said, “I had telegraphed for Mrs. Sherman, who had arrived that day, accompanied by her father, the Hon. Thomas Ewing, and my son Tom, then eight years old” (SM, 865). Ishbel Ross, in The General’s Wife, 191, states that “Julia [Mrs. Grant] and Ellen Sherman sat together in the reviewing stand opposite the White House to watch the great victory parade.”
“THE ONLY NATIONAL DEBT” New York Times, May 24, 1865.
“Gettysburg! Gettysburg!” LL, 572. For many details of the grand review, see Fleming, “The Big Parade.”
“he was not reviewed at all” LL, 572. The New York Times, May 24, took a different view of the incident, saying that Custer had brought the horse under control and “resumed his place at the head of his division.”
“Their muskets shone like a wall of steel” Porter, Campaigning, 508.
Tunes the bands played Leech, Reveille, 415.
“turned their eyes,” “pampered and well-fed,” and “I’m afraid” LL, 572-73.
“a Niagara of men” Garland, Grant, 321.
“Now a girlish form” Chamberlain, Passing of the Armies, 339.
“These were my men” Ibid.
Page’s account Page, Letters, 392.
“Be careful about your intervals” LL, 696.
“it is mentioned” New York Times, May 24, 1865.
“Directly all sorts of colors” LL, 573.
“dressed up” Ibid.
“shining bay” Ibid., 575.
“opposite the northern entrance” New York Times, May 25, 1865.
“was a group of orderlies” Ibid.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” LL, 573.
“The enthusiasm to-day” and banners New York Times, May 25, 1865.
“raised their hands” Ibid.
“He was vociferously cheered” Ibid.
“there was something almost fierce” Catton, Grant Takes Command, 491.
“in his eye” M, 356.
Sergeant Upson Merrill, Sherman, 300.
Young private from Wisconsin. Davis, Sherman’s March, 294.
“one footfall” Ibid.
“When I reached” SM, 865.
“I believe it was” LL, 575.
“took off my hat” SM, 865.
“Marching Through Georgia” Porter, Campaigning, 509.
“The acclamation” LL, 575.
Eyewitnesses differed in their description of Sherman’s snub of Stanton. Charles A. Dana, in Recollections of the Civil War, says, “I sat directly behind Mr. Stanton” in the reviewing stand, and saw this: “The Secretary made no motion to offer his hand or to exchange salutations with him in any manner. As the General passed Mr. Stanton gave him merely a slight forward motion of the head, equivalent perhaps to a quarter of a bow” (250-51). Both Sherman and his aide Hitchcock said that Stanton offered his hand, and that, in Sherman’s words, “I declined it publicly.” See Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 319, and M, 356. Grant’s aide Horace Porter says in Campaigning with Grant, that when “Stanton reached out his hand,” Sherman’s “whole manner changed in an instant: a cloud of anger overspread his features,” and that “the general turned abruptly away” (510).
“‘Veteran’ was written all over” M, 356.
“largely animal” Whitman, Prose Works, I: 106.
The two New York Times stories New York Times, May 25, 1865.
“moving floral gardens” Davis, Sherman’s March, 291.
“talismanic banners” LL, 577.
“a battalion of black pioneers” New York Times, May 25, 1865.
“It was a most nonchalant” Ibid.
References to Mrs. Herman Canfield JDG, 99-101, 116n.
Meeting at the White House between Grant and Lee Flood, Lee, 208-16.
“What money will pay Meade for Gettysburg?” M, 431.
“inherited prejudice” Ibid., 380.
“believed in the doctrine” and “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” Ibid., 381.
“If nominated I will not run” LL, 631.
“I don’t like to give him pain” through “Yes, Mister President” M, 385.
“Grant says my visits” LL, 638.
Taps Ross, The General’s Wife, 313.
“It will be a thousand years” LL, 639.
“His Virginia was” Ibid.
“You are the only man” Bleser, Intimate Strategies, 154.
“Wait for me Ellen” LL, 645.
“Faithful and Honorable” Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 386.
“General, please put on your hat” LL, 652.
Sherman’s sword on funeral train Ibid., 652-53.
“The Paris I remember” and “performed some of his own” JDG, 216, 211.
“I, his wife” Ibid., 331.
L’ENVOI
“We were as brothers” Ward, “We Were as Brothers,” 14.
About the Author
CHARLES BRACELEN FLOOD is the author of Lee: The Last Years, Hitler: The Path to Power, and Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence, which won an American Revolution Round Table Award. He is a past president of the PEN American Center and lives in Richmond, Kentucky.
Praise for Grant and Sherman
“Charles Flood’s Grant and Sherman is the story of two remarkable men, an extraordinary friendship, and a partnership that won the Civil War. Shedding fresh light on these two men, it is by turns evocative, charming, and often absorbing.”
—JAY WINIK, author of
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
“Charles Bracelen Flood studies the friendship between Grant and Sherman and rightly concludes that it had a major impact on the results of the Civil War. Thoroughly researched and written with verve, this book is easy reading and provides rewarding insight into a friendship that influenced the lives of two significant individuals and the war in which they played such crucial roles.”
—JOHN MARSZALEK, professor emeritus of history, Mississippi State University, and author of Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order
“For those who think there is nothing new to be said about the Civil War, Grant and Sherman will be a pleasant surprise. The book is a unique blend of emotional power and historical insight. A must-read.”
—THOMAS FLEMING, author of
Liberty! The American Revolution
“Grant and Sherman is a profound study of
the relationship of the generals who endured and determined the tide of the victory in our nation’s most divisive and bloody war. This masterpiece ranges from vivid battlefield reports to intimate sketches of Grant’s and Sherman’s marriages to subtle cameo sketches of the officers and politicians who harassed or supported them. Fusing his talents as a resourceful scholar and distinguished novelist with a touch of the poet, Flood has achieved a moving and inspired classic of American history.”
—SIDNEY OFFIT, president of
the Authors Guild Foundation
“This book describes with force, clarity, and admirable terseness the forging in the field of the historic leadership team that was essential to Union victory. Civil War scholars and general readers alike will profit from its insights.”
—CHARLES P. ROLAND, author of
An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War
“Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman forged a superb partnership during the Civil War, a team of opposites drawn together to end a horrendous conflict without excessive suffering and bloodshed. Ironically, they succeeded by rendering war too terrible for the South to continue. Both Grant and Sherman have attracted more than their share of biographers, but never before has an author been audacious enough to tackle both at once. Their subtle and complex relationship deserves attention from a sophisticated and experienced writer; Flood is up to the task.”
—JOHN Y. SIMON, editor of
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant
“Civil War books suffer from two characteristics: an overwhelming number and a tendency to be unreadable. Charles Bracelen Flood has overcome these obstacles.”
—JIM KELLY,
Wisconsin State Journal
“An eye-opener … . Until now little has been written about this friendship and about their common ties: Charles Bracelen Flood has written about the war before but here excels in presenting the depth of an unusual friendship which not only influenced but eventually won the Civil War. A ‘must’ for any who would understand Civil War connections.”
—Midwest Book Review
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