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15. “I NOW FEEL LIKE ENDING THE MATTER”: GRANT’S FINAL OFFENSIVE
 
“She bore the parting” Porter,
Campaigning
, 425.
“Mr. Lincoln looked” through “I think we can send him” Ibid., 425–26.
“I will haul out” SCW, 847.
“the next two months” Ibid., 849.
“I now feel like” PUSG, XIV: 136.
“our troops have all been” Ibid., 135.
“I shall … endeavor” Freeman,
Lee
, IV: 21.
“until it is seen” PUSG, XIV: 253.
“the heavy rain” Morris,
Sheridan,
243.
“pacing up and down” Porter,
Campaigning,
429.
“hold on to Dinwiddie” Ibid., 246.
“Well, Colonel, it has happened” Freeman,
Lee
, IV: 51.
“I advise” Ibid., 49.
“All indications are” and “Rebel Armies” PUSG, XIV: 352.
“I am delighted” SCW, 850.
“I therefore request” Freeman,
Lee
, IV: 129-30.
“sick headache” through “I felt like anything rather” GMS, 730-35.
“I take it” through “And it will be a great relief” Flood, Lee, 10-11.
“Then there is nothing left” Ibid., 4.
“we are all one country” Ibid., 152.
“there was not a man” Ibid., 22.
“I knew” Ibid.
16. THE DAYS AFTER APPOMATTOX: JOY AND GRIEF
 
“I have this moment” SCW, 859.
“Lee’s surrendered!” Barrett,
Sherman’s March
, 207.
“I never heard such cheering” Glatthaar,
March
, 176.
“Yankee Doodle” M, 339.
“Glory to God” Barrett,
Sherman’s March
, 207.
“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: 423–24
n
.
“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, 891
n
.
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.
“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.

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