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  “I am the instrument to do his holy will” Ibid.

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  “negroes are gay, obliging” Ibid., 394.

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  “For more than an hour” Searcher, Lincoln’s Journey, 254; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 65–66.

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  “an unceasing Shadow” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 23.

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  “that rare quality” Ibid., 67.

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  “Testing” Bilansky, “Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency,” 70.

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  “The building I had selected” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 126–27.

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  “Lincoln shall die in this city” Ibid., 141; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 166, 250.

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  Washington: Crisis

  “I would have preferred” Ruffin, Diary, 1:525.

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  “After this letter” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:93.

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  “the traitor Thompson” Ibid.

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  “It is now all over” Ibid.; Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 174, 182.

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  “The more I reflect” Anderson to Cooper, December 31, 1860, WOTR, 1:120.

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  “This steamer cleared” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:102.

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  “may be employed to silence” Lorenzo Thomas to Anderson, January 5, 1861, WOTR, 1:132.

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  “My glorious wife!” Samuel Wylie Crawford, “Journal of Samuel Wylie Crawford,” January 6, 1861, Crawford Papers; Swanberg, First Blood, 142.

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  “Her arrival” Samuel Wylie Crawford, “Journal of Samuel Wylie Crawford,” January 6, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “She felt much easier” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 99.

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  “My arrangements for the hospital” Samuel Wylie Crawford to [A.J. Crawford], January 2 and 3, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  Charleston Harbor: Crossing the Bar

  “We proceeded with caution” “Capt. McGowan’s Report.”

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  “groping in the dark” Woods to Lorenzo Thomas, January 13, 1861, WOTR, 1:9–10.

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  “It was hard to believe” Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 185; Doubleday, Reminiscences, 101.

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  Star of the West: Under Fire

  “One shot just passed” “Capt. McGowan’s Report.”

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  “Finding it impossible” Woods to Lorenzo Thomas, January 13, 1861, WOTR, 1:9–10.

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  “From the preparations” Ibid., 1:10.

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  Mississippi: The True Enemy

  “Our position is thoroughly identified” “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.”

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  “Message on Threats” James Buchanan, “Message on Threats to the Peace and Existence of the Union” (speech, January 8, 1861), Congressional Globe, January 11, 1861, 294–95; Nicklason, “Secession Winter,” 374.

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  Washington: A Wife’s Disappointment

  “There is a Northern traitor” Nicklason, “Secession Winter,” 376.

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  to “save the republic of Washington” Ibid., 379.

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  “a plot is forming” Ibid., 380.

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  “What do you think of Seward?” Foner, Fiery Trial, 148.

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  “Your recent speech” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:176.

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  “I will suffer death” Ibid., 4:175–76.

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  “My dearest Henry” Frances Seward to William Seward, January 19, 1861, Seward Project.

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  “The letter I sent yesterday” Frances Seward to William Seward, January 20, 1861, Seward Project.

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  Louis Agassiz Here, for those with a strong stomach, is a sample of Agassiz’s abhorrent thinking, from a letter he wrote to his mother after he was served by Blacks in a Philadelphia restaurant: “As much as I try to feel pity at the sight of this degraded and degenerate race, as much as their fate fills me with compassion in thinking of them as really men, it is impossible for me to repress the feeling that they are not of the same blood as us. Seeing their black faces with their fat lips and their grimacing teeth, the wool on their heads, their bent knees, their elongated hands, their large curved fingernails, and above all the livid color of their palms, I could not turn my eyes from their face in order to tell them to keep their distance, and when they advanced that hideous hand toward my plate to serve me, I wished I could leave in order to eat a piece of bread apart rather than dine with such service.” Menand, “Morton, Agassiz, and the Origins of Scientific Racism,” 112.

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  “You think slavery is right” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:160–61.

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  Fort Sumter: Forbearance

  “Hold on; do not fire” Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 186.

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  “we could have kept down” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 104.

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  “Two of your batteries” Anderson to Pickens, January 9, 1861, WOTR, 1:134.

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  “that the political connection” Pickens to Anderson, January 9, 1861, WOTR, 1:135–36.

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  “Shall we accede” Crawford, Genesis of the Civil War, 192.

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  “a fatal measure” Ibid., 109.

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  Ruffin: A Little Treason

  “If Fort Sumter” Ruffin, Diary, 1:529.

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  “It almost killed me.” Corneau and Osborne, “Girl in the Sixties,” 413.

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  “once falling and hurting my shin” Ruffin, Diary, 1:529.

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  “100 negro slaves” Ibid., 1:531.

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  “so as to allow me” Ibid., 1:531–32.

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  Fort Sumter: Lethal Secrets

  “He brought me” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 113.

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  “You rightly designate” Holt to Anderson, January 16, 1861, WOTR, 1:140.

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  “The troops opposite” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 112.

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  “Such an addition” Anderson to Cooper, February 7, 1861, WOTR, 1:169.

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  The concussion shattered John G. Foster, Engineer Journal, April 9, 1861, WOTR, 1:17; Foster to Joseph G. Totten, January 14, 1861, WOTR, 1:138–39.

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  “two hundred pounds” L. M. Hatch to Anderson, January 19, 1861, WOTR, 1:145.

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  “The boat had hardly touched” Samuel Wylie Crawford to [A.J. Crawford], January 29, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “Anderson showed” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 113.

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  “Oh—by the by” Millens to parents, January 25, 1861, in Berthoff, “ ‘When Once the Ball Is Commenced,’ ” 221.

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  “The compliance with this request” Anderson to D. F. Jamison, January 19, 1861, WOTR, 1: 144–45.

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  “Certainly, Mr. Rhett” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 114.

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  Buchanan invited Dix Baker, James Buchanan, 78.

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  “These are almost” Ruffin, Diary, 1:536.

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  “the imbecility” Ibid., 1:539.

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  “Under such circumstances” Ibid., 1:540.

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  a close record of the weather Samuel Wylie Crawford, “Journal of Samuel Wylie Crawford,” Crawford Papers. See entries for dates in text.

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  “As they passed the fort” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 117; Foster to Totten, January 31, 1861, WOTR 1:161; Anderson to Cooper, February 1 and 4, 1861, WOTR, 1:161.

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  Washington: Dread

  “where the revolutionary movement” Seward, Seward at Washington, 541.

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  “that the possession of this city” Nicklason, “Secession Winter,” 382.

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  Washington and Montgomery: A Solemn Council

  “come forward promptly” Crofts, “Secession Winter,” 245.

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  “I was skating” Adams, Autobiography, 71; Johnson, Lincoln’s First Crisis, 98.

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  “The ancient Seward” Crofts, “Secession Winter,” 246.

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  “prepared each morning to see” Gunderson, “William C. Rives,” 466.

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  Seward called the flag-raising Ibid.

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  Owing to the use Petroski, “Engineering: The Washington Monument,” 19, 20. For a nice photograph of the truncated Washington Monument, see Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 50.

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  “Old Gentlemen’s Convention” Gunderson, “William C. Rives,” 467.

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  Here were one-inch ads Montgomery Daily Post, February 13, 1861.

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  “The Valet” Ibid.

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  A photograph of Market Street See Charles Goode Gomillion and Robert J. Norell, “The Civil War and Its Aftermath,” Britannica, www.britannica.com/​place/​Alabama-state/​The-Civil-War-and-its-aftermath.

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  “The streets are very hot” Russell, My Diary, 118–19.

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  On Market alone Equal Justice Initiative, “Montgomery Slave Trade.”

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  “I have a first rate pack” Ibid., February 22, 1861.

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  “When reading the telegram” Davis, Jefferson Davis: A Memoir, 18–19; Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, 328.

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  “I have no confidence” Dodd, Jefferson Davis, 24; Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, 154–57, 244; Davis, Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 123; Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, 328; Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge, 104; McPherson, Battle Cry, 259.

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  “We are without machinery” Jefferson Davis to Varina Davis, February 20, 1861, in Davis, Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 123.

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  “He did not know the arts” Bleser, “Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis,” 18.

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  “Our separation from the old Union” Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, 329.

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  Washington: To Sell or Collide

  “They are, I suspect” Anderson to Cooper, February 6, 1861, WOTR, 1:169.

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  “I do not come” Hayne to Buchanan, January 31 and February 7, 1861, Balzano Papers; Holt to Hayne, February 6, 1861, WOTR, 1:166.

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  “How the presence” Holt to Hayne, February 6, 1861, WOTR, 1:166.

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  “Can my voice reach you?” Tyler to Pickens, February 7, 1861, WOTR, 1:254.

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  “If you can bear this” Pickens to J. Thomson Mason, February 7, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “I have traveled over” Hammond to Allen, February 7, 1861, Hammond Papers.

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  She vowed Swanberg, First Blood, 208.

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  Charleston: Race Week

  everyone “ ‘talks horse’ ” Sparks, “Gentleman’s Sport,” 21.

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  “The music was fine” Detzer, Allegiance, 201.

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  “the impersonation of Carolina chivalry” Faust, James Henry Hammond, 159.

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  “Their cavalier blood” Sparks, “Gentleman’s Sport,” 19.

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  “unanimity in our councils” Ibid., 24. One feature of Race Week 1804 was the “Learned Pig,” billed as being able to read, write, spell, tell time, and, supposedly, perform feats of elementary mathematics. Ibid., 21.

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  hosted by the Jockey Club During the Civil War the Jockey Club moved its supply of old and valuable madeira to the basement of the insane asylum in Columbia, South Carolina. Union troops never found it. Sparks, “Gentleman’s Sport,” 29.

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  During Race Week 1861 Ibid., 27, 28.

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  The Sinkler family owned Davidson, Last Foray, 249–50.

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  Lincoln: Yard Sale

  To help pay Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:189.