Lincoln Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Lincoln novel. A total of 174 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : LINCOLN.by DAVID HERBERT DONALD.Preface The only time I ever met President John F. Kenne
LINCOLN.by DAVID HERBERT DONALD.Preface The only time I ever met President John F. Kennedy, in February 1962, he was unhappy with historians. A group of scholars had been in the Oval Office hoping to enlist him in a poll that ranked American presidents. I
- 101 200 "controvert its correctness": CW, 2:388. 200 to accept it: CW, 2:401. 201 "all recognize it": CW, 2:404. 201 "and inferior races": Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas, pp. 569571. 201 "benefit of slavery": CW, 2:399.
- 102 205 did Lincoln himself: CW, 2:472.205 the second time: Neely, The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, p. 79.205 "of the const.i.tution": Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness, p. 49.205 "than anything else": CW, 2:472.205 "Stephen A. Doug
- 103 209 "it now exists": John Locke Scripps to AL, June 22, 1858, Lincoln MSS, LC. 209 "so intended it": CW, 2:471. 209 "foolish one perhaps": CW, 2:491. 209 "be hardly won": John W. Forney, Anecdotes of Public Men (New
- 104 215 "his large feet": Carl Schurz, "Reminiscences of a Long Life," McClure's Magazine 28 (Jan. 1907): 253.215 "to be President": CW, 2:506.216 By one o'clock: For details on Ottawa and the arrangements for the debat
- 105 219 would be reelected: Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery, p. 58.220 the Republican cause: On Trumbull's role, see Mark M. Krug, "Lyman Trumbull and the Real Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates," JISHS 57 (Winter 1964): 380396.220 d
- 106 223 course on Lecompton: Ibid, pp. 292299. 224 "Go it bear!": Ibid, p. 301. For the origins of this jest, see P. M. Zall, ed, Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and About Abraham Lincoln (Berkeley: University of Ca
- 107 228 "me except Billy': Henry C. Whitney to WHH, July 18, 1887, HWC.229 "one hundred defeats": CW, 3:339.CHAPTER NINE: THE TASTE IS IN MY MOUTH This chapter draws heavily on two excellent accounts of the 1860 campaign and election: Will
- 108 233 "of public opinion: CW, 3:423. 233 "against the negro": CW, 3:431. 233 "and the reptile": CW, 3:425. 233 "country is everything": CW, 3:424. 233 "the miners and sappers": CW, 3:423. 233 "their own labo
- 109 238 handsome, statesmanlike image: This portrait is admirably reproduced in James Mellon, The Face of Lincoln (New York: Viking Press, 1979), p. 51. See also Charles Hamilton and Lloyd Ostendorf, Lincoln in Photographs: An Alb.u.m of Every Known Pose (Day
- 110 242 "a guileless man": David Davis to [John Wentworth], Sept. 25, 1859, Davis MSS, ISHL. 243 ten, years younger: CW, 4:36. 243 for his nomination: CW, 4:43. 243 "chances of success": CW, 4:33. 243 attending the convention: CW, 4:32. 24
- 111 248 "the pinch comes". C. H. Ray to AL, May 14, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.249 "devil with fire": Mark W. Delahay to AL, May 17, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC.249 "will bind me": CW, 4:50.249 his directive was unnecessary: According to le
- 112 253 biographies were distributed: Ernest J. Wessen, "Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln, 1860: An Annotated Bibliography," Papers in Illinois History, 1937, pp. 188220, is authoritative. Howells's biography is important not merely because it
- 113 258 loss for words: Henry Villard's dispatches to the New York Herald give a vivid, day-by-day account of Lincoln's activities. Some of them have been collected in Henry Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61: A Journalist's Story, ed. Har
- 120 289 he "keeled over": Allan Nevins, The War for the Union, vol. 1, The Improvised War, 18611862 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959), p. 58.290 "nor a.s.sume responsibility": CW, 4:317318.290 this extraordinary doc.u.ment: No
- 121 On the Congresses with which Lincoln had to deal, there are two exemplary studies by Allan G. Bogue: The Congressman's Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), on the House of Representatives, and The Earnest Men: Republicans of the C
- 122 301 "and a.s.siduous cooperation": Frederick W. Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton as Senator and Secretary of State, 18461861 (New York: Derby & Miller, 1891), p. 590.302 to prosecute it: The complete message is in CW, 4:421441.303 "as we ca
- 123 310 "formality of signature": On Nicolay and the administration of the President's office, see Helen Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1949), and Edward D. Neill, Abraham Lin
- 114 263 "with clean hands": Lyman Trumbull to AL, Dec. 2, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC. 263 "in the case": CW, 4:148. 263 "much self distrust": W. H. Seward to AL, Dec. 28, 1860, Lincoln MSS, LC. 263 "difference between them?"
- 115 269 "of physical power": For a thorough a.n.a.lysis, see Thomas J. Pressly, "Bullets and Ballots: Lincoln and the 'Right of Revolution,'" American Historical Review 67 (Apr. 1962): 647662.269 "the essence of anarchy"
- 116 272 left for Was.h.i.+ngton: Day by Day, p. 10; Pratt, Personal Finances, p. 123. 272 "had ever happened": This repeats, almost verbatim, the account I gave in Lincolns Herndon, pp. 146147. 273 see Lincoln off: Victor Searcher, Lincolns Journey
- 117 276 "time is artificial": CW, 4:238. 276 "not deciding anything": CW, 4:195196. 277 "stand by it": CW, 4:220. In the source the words are in full capitals. 277 "of this Union": CW, 4:233. 277 "foot down firmly&
- 118 281 by his appearance: My portrait of Seward is drawn from Charles Francis Adams, 18351915: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), pp. 57, 79; The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), p. 104; and
- 119 285 "that hungry lot": Villard, Memoirs, 1:156. 285 "or even breathe": John G. Nicolay to O. M. Hatch, Mar. 7, 1861, Hatch MSS, ISHL. 285 "applications for office": Orville H. Browning to AL, Mar. 26, 1861, Lincoln MSS, LC. 2
- 124 317 "acres of land": B. F. Wade to Zachariah Chandler, Sept. 23, 1861, Chandler MSS, LC. 317 "hang a man": Donald, Lincolns Herndon, p. 150. 317 "property by proclamation?": CW, 4:531532. 317 "an ordinary man": Brow
- 125 323 "at a time": Randall, Lincoln the President, 2:41.323 "gall and wormwood": Chase, Diary, p. 54.323 "the right one". F. W. Seward, Seward at Was.h.i.+ngton... 18611872, pp. 2526.324 "this great emergency": Horace
- 126 On military affairs in 1862, and especially on Lincoln's relations.h.i.+p with McClellan, the standard works are Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War (New York: Macmillan Co., 1949), vols. 12, and T. Harry W
- 127 333 whom he succeeded: The authoritative biography is Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincolns Secretary of War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962). 333 "whom he fears": Welles, Diary, 1.128-129. 333 "an
- 128 337 "a process of crystallization": Carpenter, Six Months, p. 189. 337 veils and crepes: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 284288. 338 "necessary to us": Ibid., p. 296. 338 "not get invitations": Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 215. 33
- 129 343 of ultimate extinction: Robert W. Johannsen, ed., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 265.343 "to our armies": Browning, Diary, 1:477478.343 of Henry Clay: Lincoln's ideas on colonization we
- 130 348 "of his Country": Segal, Conversations, pp. 165168. 348 "office he holds": The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1871), 2:346. 348 "and hungry dog"
- 131 All Lincoln biographies deal extensively with the Emanc.i.p.ation Proclamation, and I have learned much from them. The fullest a.n.a.lysis is in J. G. Randall, Lincoln the President: Springfield to Gettysburg (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1945), vol. 2, on
- 132 360 "the army safely?": CW, 5:310.360 "magnitude of the crisis": McClellan, Civil War Papers, p. 348.361 "General-in-Chief": CW, 5:312313.361 "General in the country": CW, 5:284.361 recommended by General Scott: Wal
- 133 367 "injury than good": Browning, Diary, 1:555. 367 "join the rebellion": Frederic Bancroft, ed., Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1913), 1:209. 367 "Hamlin try"; Jam
- 134 373 "and the people": Strong, Diary, p. 256; Samuel Galloway to AL, Sept. 4, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC; Robert Laird Collier, Moral Heroism: Its Essentialness to the Crisis. A Sermon, Preached to the Wabash Ave. M.E. Church, Chicago, Sabbath Evening
- 135 378 "kills no rebels": CW, 5:444. 378 "Mr. Lincolns proclamation": Randall, Lincoln the President, 2:175; Richard Nelson Current, Lincolns Loyalists (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992), p. 50. 379 "and of revenge":
- 136 383 "made to relent": T. J. Barnett to S. L. M. Barlow, Nov. 30, 1862, Barlow MSS, HEH. 383 "hands of its enemys": Schurz to Lincoln, Nov. 8, 1862, Lincoln MSS, LC. 384 outcome of the elections: S. W. Oakey to AL, Nov. 5, 1862, Lincoln
- 137 389 "dull to take hold": F. P. Blair, Sr., to Montgomery Blair, Nov. 7, 1862, Blair MSS, LC.389 "inexpedient" to remove: Chase to Hiram Barney, Oct. 26, 1862, Chase MSS.390 advance at Antietam: For McClellan's criticism of Burnsid
- 138 399 "the traitoress Mrs. Lincoln": H. Finch to Zachariah Chandler, Sept. 10, 1862, Chandler MSS, LC. 399 "a new administration": George P. Morgan to W. H. Seward, Oct. 22, 1862, Seward MSS, UR. 399 "shape of cabinet ministers"
- 139 405 "should not do that": Browning, Diary, 1:604. 405 "He lied": Ibid., 1:603. 405 "and their enemies": Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987), p. 193. 405 "
- 140 410 McClellan partisans: Samuel E. Lyon to Salmon P. Chase, Jan. 6, 1863, Chase MSS. 411 "driving you": CW, 6:46. 411 "you are right": Marvel, Burnside, p. 215. 411 "sooner the better": "Extracts from the Journal of Henr
- 141 419 "man I know of": Sandburg, 2:244. 419 "a thousand ways": CW, 6:87. 419 to the Republican party: Wood Gray, The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads (New York: Viking Press, 1942), gives considerable credence to these repo
- 142 424 Department of Agriculture: For careful studies of this nonmilitary legislation, see Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968), and Heather c.o
- 143 429 use: African-Americans: On Lincolns decision to raise African-American troops, Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 18611865 (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1956), is authoritative. Except where otherwise identified,
- 144 436 "the country say!": Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton in Lincolns Time, pp. 5758. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), is a brilliant study of the
- 145 441 "the whole world": Robert Garth Scott, ed., Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991), p. 216. 441 in a drawer: Sandburg, 2:308. 442 "and Federal Const.i.tutions
- 146 447 "an active pursuit": Meade, Meade, 2:132, 311312. 447 "a true man": CW, 6:341. 447 "didnt sack Phil-del": CW, 10:194. 448 "by her fall": CW, 6:314. See also Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 324325; Katherine Helm, The
- 147 453 "praised by the other": CW, 6:234. 453 "of a polecat": Joseph Medill to AL, Oct. 3, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC. 453 "make Missouri free": Browning, Diary, 1:611612. 453 "of immediate emanc.i.p.ation": New York Herald
- 148 457 "hit on the head": Ibid., p. 106.458 "in five days": Chase, Diary, pp. 201203.458 "beyond all hopes": James W. Grimes to AL, Oct. 14, 1863; James M. Scovel to AL, Oct. 11, 1863; Salmon P. Chase to AL, Oct. 14, 1863, all i
- 149 463 "beauty and goodness": Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (New York: North American Review, 1888), p. 511.463 "nothing at all": CW, 7:17.463 of Lincoln's "pasquinades": J. W. Schulte Nordholt
- 150 470 "Sumners heresies": James Dixon to Montgomery Blair, Oct. 7, 1863, Lincoln MSS, LC. 470 "a Copperhead orator": Thaddeus Stevens to S. P. Chase, Oct. 8, 1863, Chase MSS. 471 "the loyal minority": Hay, Diary, pp. 112113. 47
- 151 476 "my other friends": Donald, Sumner, pp. 167169. 476 "s.h.i.+elded the rebels": Reasons Against the Re-Nomination of Abraham Lincoln. Adopted February 15, 1864, by a Republican Meeting at Davenport, Iowa, pamphlet, HEH. 477 "of
- 152 482 the "treasury rats": John G. Nicolay to John Hay, Feb. 17, 1864, Nicolay MSS, LC. 482 "inquire for more": CW, 7:212213. 482 "wish to hear": Helen Nicolay, Lincolns Secretary, pp. 188189. 483 Indiana Republican convention:
- 153 489 throughout the country: Chase, Diary, pp. 192196.489 "on the public works": CW, 6:357.489 "or hang them": Mary Mann to E. A. Hitchc.o.c.k, Nov. 18, 1863, Hitchc.o.c.k MSS, LC.489 "act for revenge": J. G. Randall, Const.i.
- 154 494 "Mr. Cs claim": R. M. W. Taylor to John Sherman, Mar. 18,1864, Sherman MSS, LC. 494 "to the Other": J. V. Denny to John Sherman, Mar. 20, 1864, Sherman MSS, LC. 494 meeting in Baltimore: The best biography, Allan Nevins, Fremont: P
- 155 499 "somebody else does": Grant, Memoirs, 2:142143. 499 in Grants campaign: Ludwell H. Johnson, Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1958), offers a devastating account of Bankss expedition
- 156 504 "pap-journalists, expectants": Adam Gurowski, Diary: 186364-65 (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1866), p. 249. 504 "was at Chicago": John G. Nicolay to John Hay, June 6, 1864, Nicolay MSS, LC. 504 "decent town meeting": James G. Sm
- 157 509 a financial crisis: Francis Fessenden, Life and Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1907), 1:315323. 509 "by your a.s.sociates": Ibid., 1:323. 509 "have such wishes": CW, 7:423. 509 critical of the President
- 158 516 "strengthened him mentally": Welles, Diary, 2:58. 516 "I will go in": Browning, Diary, 1:673. 516 "in that region": Bates, Diary, p. 378. CHAPTER NINETEEN: I AM PRETTY SURE-FOOTED John H. Cramer, Lincoln Under Enemy Fire (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
- 159 521 presidential election: See the excellent account of the Confederate mission in Larry E. Nelson, Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864 (University: University of Alabama Press, 1980). 522
- 160 527 "serious damage": Christopher N. Breiseth, "Lincoln and Frederick Dougla.s.s: Another Debate," JISHS 68 (Feb. 1975): 1920. 527 a broad range: Allan G. Bogue, The Congressmans Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 132141, pro
- 161 531 "capture... of Atlanta": CW, 7:533.531 "in the party": Donald, Sumner, pp. 187189.531 "run Mr. Lincoln": Much of the correspondence leading to this meeting was published in the New York Sun, June 30, 1889. See also the full account of the discus
- 162 535 from the cabinet: There has been much controversy over the alleged "bargain," in which Lincoln agreed to dismiss Blair from the cabinet if Fremont withdrew from the presidential race. Charles R. Wilson, "New Light on the Lincoln-Blair-Fremont 'Bar
- 163 538 "a free Government": CW, 7:505.538 "any thing else": Gil Troy, See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate (New York: Free Press, 1991), p. 69.538 after the election: For advice that Lincoln received on Pennsylvania politics,
- 164 541 "call you blessed": Benjamin Quarles, Lincoln and the Negro (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), p. 211. 541 "advocated his cause": Segal, Conversations, pp. 345347. 541 abolitionists had often: These paragraphs draw heavily from James M. Mc
- 165 Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the a.s.sa.s.sination of Lincoln (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988), by William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, and David Winfred Gaddy, offers a provocative account of attempts to kidnap and k
- 166 552 "otherwise certainly attain": Segal, Conversations, p. 361. 552 "opinions are known": David M. Silver, Lincolns Supreme Court (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956), pp. 207208. 552 "the rest hold back": Segal, Conv
- 167 557 "one common country": CW, 8:220221.557 two separate countries: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895), ser. 1, vol. 46, pt. 3, p. 297.557 meet with them: CW, 8:282.557 &q
- 168 564 "the proposed Senators?": CW, 8:206207.564 "and a wrong": Donald, Sumner, p. 204.564 "centralized power": Nicolay and Hay, 10:85.565 on his arm: Donald, Sumner, pp. 205207.565 "at home and abroad": Herbert Mitga
- 169 569 enjoyed them all: The following pages draw heavily on R. Gerald McMurtry, "Lincoln Knew Shakespeare," Indiana Magazine of History 31 (Dec. 1935): 265277.569 understand their anxieties: For perceptive commentary on Lincoln's interest in
- 170 576 "the rebel army": E. M. Stanton to AL, Apr. 3, 1865, Lincoln MSS, LC.576 "care of myself": CW, 8:385.576 "to be humble": David D. Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1885), pp. 2
- 171 581 "we fairly captured it": CW, 8:393.582 for "another": Wayne C. Temple and Justin G. Turner, "Lincoln's 'Castine': Noah Brooks,' LH 73 (Fall 1971): 173; Noah Brooks, Was.h.i.+ngton in Lincoln's Time (Ne
- 172 588 "at present": Wilson, John Wilkes Booth, pp. 5054; Tidwell, Come Retribution, p. 405. 588 if he wished: Benn Pitman, The a.s.sa.s.sination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (facsimile ed.; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1954
- 173 593 "correspondingly exhilarating": Katherine Helm, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928), p. 253.593 "been very miserable": Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 283285; WHH, interview with Man' Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1866,
- 174 597 "shot the President!": Annie F. F. Wright, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of Abraham Lincoln," Magazine of History 9 (Feb. 1909): 113114.597 President was dead: Most of the details on Lincoln's medical history in the following pages a