Race and Recruitment by Smith John David;

Author:Smith, John David;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Race and Recruitment
ISBN: 4403637
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Published: 2013-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance given him in the making of this article by Michael Burlingame, Thomas F. Schwartz (Illinois State Historical Preservation Agency), Kim Bauer (Illinois State Historical Library), John Sellers (Library of Congress), and William C. Harris (North Carolina State University).

1. Frederick Seward, in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln, eds. Don and Virginia Fehrenbacher (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1996), 397; James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield, 2 vols. (Norwich, Conn.: Henry Bill, 1884–86), 1:488; “To Hannibal Hamlin,” Sept. 28, 1862, in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, 9 vols. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1953–55), 5:444 (hereafter cited as CW); William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln’s Secretary (1890), ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000), 97.

2. Butler to Edward L. Pierce, July 20, 1863, Edward L. Pierce Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University; Benjamin Flanders to Salmon P. Chase, Nov. 29, 1862, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

3. Adam Gurowski, Diary: from March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862 (Boston: Lee & Shepherd, 1862), 278; Daniel Kirkham Dodge, Abraham Lincoln: Master of Words (New York: D. Appleton, 1924), 130–31; Richard Hofstadter, “Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth,” The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (1948; reprint, New York: Knopf, 1973), 117, 129, 131.

4. David Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1995), 375. A notable exception is Stephen B. Oates, who declared in a 1976 essay that “I do not agree with Richard Hofstadter’s view,” even though it was “hugely popular both in and out of the academies.” See his “Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation,” in Our Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and the Civil War Era (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1979), 137.

5. “To the Workingmen of Manchester, England,” CW 6:63–64; “To Erastus Corning and Others,” ibid., 260–69; “To Matthew Birchard and Others,” ibid., 300–306; and “To James C. Conkling,” ibid., 406–11; Chauncey M. Depew, My Memories of Eighty Years (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), 30; James A. Rawley, Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan-Davidson, 1996), 53.

6. John McClintock, in Fehrenbacher, ed., Recollected Words, 314; Truman Woodruff to AL, Apr. 12, 1863, Lincoln Papers; Brownlow to Montgomery Blair, Jan. 9, 1863, in Blair Family Papers, Library of Congress; Theodore Clarke Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield, 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1925), 1:244–45; “The President’s Proclamation,” Louisville Daily Democrat, Jan. 3, 1863; E. Merton Coulter, The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1926), 173–79; Lowell H. Harrison, Lincoln of Kentucky (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2000), 176–77.

7. Paul Finkelman, “Slavery, the ‘More Perfect Union,’ and the Prairie State,” Illinois Historical Journal 80 (Winter 1987): 248–69; on the dearth of antislavery feeling especially in southern Illinois, see Edgar F. Raines, “The American Missionary Association in Southern Illinois, 1856–1862,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

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