Virginia at War, 1865 by William C. Davis

Author:William C. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Richmond Times, April 25, 1865; Lucy Mae Turner, “The Family of Nat Turner, 1831 to 1954,” Negro History Bulletin 18 (March 1955): 131.

2. Charles L. Perdue Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips, Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1976), 128; “Slavery Chain” folder, “Virginia Negro Lore,” box A6888, Records of the U.S. Works Project Administration, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; mass meeting, “Hall’s Hill Va. [Falls Church] August 4th 1865,” in Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O’Donovan, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Land and Labor, 1865, series 3, vol. 1 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 699. See also Liberator, February 24, 1865, 30; and Ervin L. Jordan Jr., Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1995), 305.

3. “From Committee of Richmond Blacks,” June 10, 1865, in Andrew Johnson, The Papers of Andrew Johnson, 16 vols., ed. Leroy Graf (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986), 8:211–12; Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (New York: Norton, 2008), 719n52.

4. Martha W. Robertson Diary, January 22, 1865, p. 59, accession 36339, Library of Virginia, Richmond (hereafter cited as LVA) (“gloomy” quote); Clara Shafer Civil War Diary, January 10 and February 12, 1865, accession 12456, Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (hereafter cited as UVA) (food hoarding); Daniel E. Sutherland, Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861–1865 (New York: Free Press, 1995), 372, 375, 447n3, 447n9 (Nalle quote); John A. Campbell, “Memoranda of the Conversation at the Conference in Hampton Roads,” p. 5 of 9, and “Memoranda of the Conversation at the Conference in Hampton Roads,” p. 4 of 8 (both February 1865), in folder “1865 March 13 Memorandum of Lincoln-Stephens Conference at Hampton Roads,” box 33, Papers of the Hunter and Garnett Families, accession 38–45, UVA; Keith W. Jennison, The Humorous Mr. Lincoln (New York: Bonanza Books, 1965), 133–34; Lerone Bennett Jr., Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream (Chicago: Johnson, 2000), 611–15; Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954), 652–53 (Seward quote). For examples of Lincoln and white Northerners as racist would-be emancipators, see Bennett, Forced into Glory, 14, 48, 138, 344, 364, 375, 472.

5. Charlottesville Daily Chronicle, January 1, 1865, advertisements: “Blacksmiths, Mechanics and Laborers Wanted,” “One Hundred Able Bodied Negro Men,” “Two Valuable Families of Negroes at Auction” and “For Hire” (slave woman with small children); bill of sale for the slave Jefree, February 10, 1865, accession 13747, UVA; Michael G. Harman (Staunton, Virginia) to Davis, January 12, 1865, in Jefferson Davis, The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 11, September 1864–May 1865, ed. Lynda Lasswell Crist, Barbara J. Rozek, and Kenneth H. Williams (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), 314–15. Harman was a colonel of the Fifty-second Virginia Infantry, Staunton’s quartermaster, and a member of the Virginia Military Institute’s board of visitors. Robert J.

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