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494 "Mr. C's 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: Pathmarker of the West (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1955), stresses that Fremont himself was "sincerely indifferent to any movement" to nominate him (p. 568). See also Andrew Rolle's interesting psychological portrait, John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).
495 "months after his inauguration": Louis T. Merrill, "General Benjamin F. Butler in the Presidential Campaign of 1864," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 33 (Mar. 1947): 550. It cannot be shown that Lincoln authorized Cameron to approach Butler, but there is ample evidence that Cameron did so and that he reported Butler's response to the President.
495 "tipping him out": Benjamin F. Butler, Butler's Book (Boston: A. M. Thayer & Co., 1892), p. 635.
495 Lincoln backed down: James N. Adams, "Lincoln and Hiram Barney," JISHS 50 (Winter 1957): 370373.
495 "will be questioned": Thurlow Weed to David Davis, Mar. 24, 1864, Davis MSS, ISHL.
495 "to say no": E. D. Morgan to Thurlow Weed, Mar. 27, 1864, Weed MSS, UR.
495 "for my opinions": Thurlow Weed to David Davis, Mar. 29, 1864, Davis MSS, ISHL.
496 "disheartened and disappointed": John G. Nicolay to AL, Mar. 30, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.
496 "Blood and Treasure": Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the Lobby (Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1947), p. 307.
496 "opposed to Lincoln": Francis P. Blair, Jr., to Montgomery Blair, Apr. 26,1864, Blair MSS, LC.
496 "a compromise candidate": Congressional Globe, 38 Cong, 1 sess. (Apr. 23,1864), p. 1832.
496 "return to the field": CW, 7:319320.
496 "be set right": Segal, Conversations, pp. 310316.
497 "men and dogs": Albert G. Riddle, Recollections of War Times (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), p. 266.
497 "or telegrapher": CW, 6:350.
497 "he has got": Williams, Lincoln and His Generals, p. 272.
497 "as he pleases": Bruce Catton, Grant Takes Command (Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1969), pp. 138139.
498 "rendering such a.s.sistance": Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1886), 2:122.
498 "restraints upon you": CW, 7:324.
498 "ground of either": Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ser. 1, vol. 34, p. 19.
498 "lines to Richmond": Ibid., vol. 33, p. 394.
499 "of East Tennessee": Ibid., p. 395.
499 "superiority in numbers": Hay, Diary, p. 178.
