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499 "somebody else does": Grant, Memoirs, 2:142143.
499 in Grant's 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 Banks's expedition.
500 "sickening with anxiety": Strong, Diary, p. 442.
500 "no turning back": Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939), 3:44.
500 "by favorable news": CW, 7:333.
500 "to our Maker": CW, 7:334.
500 14,000 casualties: On numbers and casualties I have followed the figures given in Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers & Losses in the Civil War in America, 186165 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957), and in Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York: Century Co., 18841888), vol. 4.
500 "ever to end!": Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (New York: North American Review, 1888), p. 337.
500 "care, and anxiety": Carpenter, Six Months, pp. 3031.
501 "takes all summer": John Y. Simon, ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 10:422.
501 "Grant that wins": Hay, Diary, p. 180.
501 "shake him off": Carpenter, Six Months, p. 283.
501 "in our cause": Robert S. Harper, Lincoln and the Press (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), pp. 290291. In addition to Harper's excellent account, see the stories and editorials in the New York World, May 24, 1864.
501 "by military force": CW, 7:348.
502 "head shot off!": Segal, Conversations, p. 318.
502 "for his re election": Clark E. Carr to J. G. Nicolay, Mar. 14, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.
502 unanimous for the President: Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943), pp. 245259, offers a good account of these and other state conventions.
502 "conduct of the war": Edward McPherson, The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: Solomons & Chapman, 1876), p. 410.
503 Fremont for President: Full accounts of the convention proceedings appeared in the New York World, May 31 and June 3, 1864, and in many other newspapers.
503 "most magnificent fizzle": S. Newton Pettis to AL, May 31, 1864, Lincoln MSS, LC.
503 "controlling no votes": New York Times, June 3, 1864.
503 "affair every way": Hay, Diary, p. 184.
503 "four hundred men": Nicolay and Hay, 9:4041. The quotation is from I Samuel 22:2.
503 "won't swindle me": Hay, Diary, 185.
504 "a very good man": Noah Brooks, "Two War-Time Conventions," Century Magazine 49 (Mar. 1895): 723.
