“I condemn the secession” Sowle, “Trials of a Virginia Unionist,” 14.

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  “They saw a tall, powerful man” New York Times, July 23, 1900; Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 414.

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  “You are a smaller man” Sowle, “Trials of a Virginia Unionist,” 15.

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  “I wish that some” Morison, “Peace Convention,” 69.

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  “Old as I am” Sowle, “Trials of a Virginia Unionist,” 18.

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  Shadow or Ghost Amendment Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 429.

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  Montgomery: Mary Chesnut’s Diary

  “We had a shocking day” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 10.

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  “Then you ought to go home” Ibid., 11.

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  “made herself conspicuous” Ibid., 14.

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  “And they say it is dull” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 10n8, 11.

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  “Every body persists” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 35.

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  “This is a gay” Davis, Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 123.

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  “He impresses me” Bleser, “Marriage of Varina Howell and Jefferson Davis,” 7.

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  “I gave the best” Ibid., 8.

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  “constant harassment” Ibid., 11.

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  “It is impossible but” Ibid., 12.

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  “Winnie is Husband’s baby” Ibid.

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  “It is getting to be” Ibid., 14–15.

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  “God help us” Davis, Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 10.

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  Washington: The Premier’s Advice

  “I, my dear sir” Seward, Seward at Washington, 512.

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  Seward’s second attempt Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:262; Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 444, 445.

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  “I am loth to close” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:271.

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  “a delusion, a sham” Gunderson, “William C. Rives,” 474. See slightly different wording in Gunderson, “Letters from the Washington Peace Conference,” 384; Morison, “Peace Convention,” 77.

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  “Away with such compromise!” Gunderson, “Letters from the Washington Peace Conference,” 384.

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  “secession will play itself out” Ibid., 384–85.

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  “Let the whole matter” Beauregard to Smith, February 27, 1861, WOTR, 53:126–27.

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  Fort Sumter: Query

  “To land and carry” Foster to Joseph G. Totten, March 1, 1861, WOTR, 1:189.

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  “such is the unceasing vigilance” Seymour quoted in Simon Cameron to Lincoln, March 17, 1861, WOTR, 1:197.

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  “upon the most fortunate” Hall in Cameron to Lincoln, March 17, 1861, 1:201.

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  “I confess” Anderson to Cooper, February 28, 1861, Anderson Papers. Anderson also quoted in Cameron to Lincoln, March 17, 1861, 1:197.

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  Washington: Seward’s Trick

  “Circumstances which have occurred” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:370; Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 432.

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  “This,” wrote Lincoln secretaries Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:371.

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  “I can’t afford” Ibid.; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 317–18.

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  Charleston: Interesting News

  “Well, we are still here” Millens to parents, February 27, 1861, in Berthoff, “ ‘When Once the Ball Is Commenced,’ ” 221–22.

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  “that Fort Sumter should” Walker to Pickens, March 1, 1861, WOTR, 1:259.

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  They sent him flowers Russell, My Diary, 80.

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  “a little hand bouquet” Ibid., 91.

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  “I had been so long” Ferguson, “Fort Sumter: Notes,” 3.

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  of “unexampled warm weather” Adams, Diaries, March 1 and 3, 1861.

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  “I will be out of Va” Ruffin, Diary, 1:557.

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  London: On the Scent

  “in observing the rupture” Russell, “Recollections,” no. 495, 234.

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  “constantly in exile” Ibid.

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  “You must go” Ibid., 234–35.

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  “He laughed to scorn” Russell, My Diary, 24–25.

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  “Under the circumstances” Ibid., 29.

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  Part V: Coercion

  Washington: Mystic Chords

  “The city itself indicated” Villard, Lincoln on the Eve, 103.

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  “We are now in such a state” Cuthbert, Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 141.

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  “It is the subject” Miers, Lincoln Day by Day, vol. III, 24; Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:273; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 317–18.

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  “quietly and unostentatiously” Seward, Seward at Washington, 516.

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  “In point of fact, there were” Ibid.

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  “I waited with boyish wonder” Goodheart, 1861, 130.

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  “Mr. Buchanan looked old” Adams, Diaries, March 4, 1861.

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  “I have been looking” Davidson and Greenawalt, “Unionists in Rockbridge County,” 89.

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  “Some thought we had” Goodheart, 1861, 404n99, 130.

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  “like an earthquake” Riggs, “Robert Young Conrad,” 261.

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  “Inaugural means war” Wigfall to F. W. Pickens, March 4, 1861, WOTR, 1:261.

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  “a somewhat Jesuitical striving” Davidson and Greenawalt, “Unionists in Rockbridge County,” 90.

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  “There will be no necessity” Ibid., 92.

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  “If you are as happy” Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 329; see variation in Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect, 450.

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  “It was very large” Adams, Diaries, March 4, 1861.

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  “There was no crowd” Seward, Seward at Washington, 517.

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  “The Parkers,” she wrote Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 32.

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  Charleston and Montgomery: Sickened

  “It settles the question” Ruffin, Diary, 1:560.

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  “fat and stupid” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 13, 16, 19.

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  “I can give a better” Ibid., 14.

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  “I never was handsome” Ibid., 16.

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  “met me with open arms” Ibid., 18.

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  “I saw today a sale” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 15, 282.

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  “Mulatto women in silk dresses” Ibid., 282.

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  “Means he war or peace” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 23.

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  “O come ye in peace” Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, 16.

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  “The cry today is war” Chesnut, Private Mary Chesnut, 25.

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  The White House: First Day

  “slipped quietly out of Congress” William Seward to Frances Seward, March 8, 1861, in Seward, Seward at Washington, 518.

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  “the very first thing” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:279; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 334.

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  “I see no alternative” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:279–80; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 334.

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  “Sir: The time having been” Swanberg, First Blood, 234; Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:381.

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  “Please give me” Seward, Seward at Washington, 518.

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  Fort Sumter: Activity and Determination

  “Their suffering” Foster to Totten, March 6, 1861, WOTR, 1:191.

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  “Everything indicates” Anderson to Cooper, March 6, 1861, WOTR, 1:191.

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  “I do not think” Foster to Totten, March 6, 1861, 1:191.

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  “I am of the opinion” Beauregard to Headquarters, Confederate States Army, report, March 6, 1861, WOTR, 1:26.

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  Washington: Relief

  “Ethan Warden is still living” Frances Seward to William Seward, March 8, 1861, Seward Project.

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  “hundred taking tickets” Seward, Seward at Washington, 518.

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  “I do not know what” Ibid.

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  “Last night” Ibid.

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  “I am yet kept indoors” Lokken, “Has the Mystery,” 426n23.

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  “a severe attack of lumbago” Ibid., 427.

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  “My dear Son” Frances Seward to Frederick Seward, March 9, 1861, Seward Project.

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  “The pressure of visitors” Frederick Seward to Frances Seward, March 12, 1861, Seward Project.

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  “I already find the passage” Ruffin, Diary, 1:560.

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  “Another report” Ruffin, Diary, 1:566.

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  “a large party of ladies” Ibid.

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  Fort Sumter: A Ball at Sunrise

  “Our men were ready” Samuel Wylie Crawford, “Journal of Samuel Wylie Crawford,” March 8, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  “Negroes left their spades” Ibid.

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  “One and all” Doubleday, Reminiscences, 129–30.

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  “I hope Major this may be” Crawford, “Journal,” March 8, 1861.

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  “By the way, it was a good shot” Samuel Wylie Crawford to [A. J. Crawford], March 9, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  Washington: The Commissioners

  “The bird of our country” Strong, Diary, 109.

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  “Things look better” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:400; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 451.

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  “This gentleman is urgent” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:399; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 450.

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  “It will not be in my power” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:402; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 452.

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  “We deemed it not compatible” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:402; Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 452.

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  “You have shown to the Government” Hay and Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln, 3:403.

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  “We are feeling our way” Johnson, “Fort Sumter and Confederate Diplomacy,” 453.

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  Fort Sumter: To Lift a Columbiad

  “and down it came” Samuel Wylie Crawford to [A. J. Crawford], March 9, 1861, Crawford Papers; Ryan, “Historic Guns of Forts Sumter and Moultrie,” 63.

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  Here, just inside the gate Truman Seymour and G. W. Snyder to Anderson, March 24, 1861, WOTR, 215.

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  Life at Sumter Samuel Wylie Crawford, “Journal of Samuel Wylie Crawford,” January 18, February 27, and March 1 and 6, 1861, Crawford Papers.

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  Washington: Lincoln

  “given the subject” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:279.

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  “1st To what point” Ibid.

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  “hard bread, flour and rice” Scott to Lincoln, March 11, 1861, Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:279n4.

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  “I should need a fleet” Scott, quoted in Simon Cameron to Lincoln, March 15, 1861, WOTR, 1:197.

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  “Solicitants for office besiege him” Seward, Seward at Washington, 530.

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  “He was vain” David D. Porter, “Journal of D. D. Porter,” 167, Porter Papers.