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  Notes

  A Boat in the Dark

  “fell in torrents” Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 242.

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  “long continued indisposition” Robert Anderson to Eliza Anderson, July 8, 1857, Anderson Papers.

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  “What would I not give” Robert Anderson to Eliza Anderson, September 20, 1856, Anderson Papers.

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  “I pray that Our Heavenly Father” Robert Anderson to Eliza Anderson, April 8, 1857, Anderson Papers.

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  “I never met a man” Samuel Wylie Crawford to A. J. Crawford, February 12, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “the nearest to noblemen ” Bleser, Hammonds of Redcliffe, 49. Hammond felt such a kinship with the aristocrats of Britain that he commissioned a British researcher to do a genealogical study of his family, certain that his ancestry could be traced back to the nobility of yore. The genealogist, however, found no such roots, just that Hammond’s ancestors were “good honest yeomen.” This was not what Hammond wanted to hear. Infuriated, he burned the report and did not pay the genealogist. Faust, James Henry Hammond, 326.

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  “How strange the aspect” Marshall, “ ‘They Are Supposed to Be Lurking,’ ” 192.

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  They held jousting competitions Crooks and Crooks, Ring Tournament, 1–6. Mark Twain blamed Sir Walter Scott for the castle-like look of the Louisiana state capitol, “for it is not conceivable that this little sham castle would ever have been built if he had not run the people mad, a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances.” Mires and Clark, “Mark Twain on Architecture,” 113.

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  “gallantry, stimulated by courage” Bruce, Violence and Culture, 213, 222.

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  “their Hyde Park” Steen, “Charleston in the 1850’s,” 38.

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  The Census Bureau’s tally In the fiscal year ending June 1, 1860, locomotive builders in the United States made a total of 470 locomotives, of which only 19 were built in the South. In 1861, total U.S. railroad mileage was 31,256, with two-thirds of that in the North. Nevins, War for the Union, 426.